The Growing Belly

While I wish I had a better excuse, I think my belly is growing only secondary to my calorie consumption! I cannot say that my belly is actually growing because of baby, but it is growing because I am so ravenous!! I can however (kinda) blame it on the size of my ovaries...they are only the size of softballs...each one of them that is. That could account for the roundness that does not usually exist, but I am sticking with the fact that I am just eating way too much!! Oh well. I'm pregnant right?! Eating for two!! Anyway, I finally have gotten around to posting my 5 week belly-shot...just in time to take my 6 week belly-shot. Maybe by this time next week I will have that one posted!! I will do my best.

YeeHaw!

We are having ONE precious baby! We are so excited and relieved that we are not having... several. Everything looks perfect and right on track with our baby. Our prayers were answered. Now we pray that this pregnancy continues to progress healthily and happily. We are now entitled to a huge sigh of relief!

The Numbers Are In!

And tell us NOTHING! I am so incredibly impatient! Hcg today is 4727, p4 310 and e2 is 4000 and something. Guess what all that means...a big fat nothing...other than the fact that I am pregnant (thank you God). We will find out on Wednesday how many (i am guessing 1...just for the record!). I am still feeling great, just hungry as all get out! I seriously cannot get enough food. Real food, not snack food. I want meat (strange for me) and things that are really salty...disgustingly salty. My bedtime snack (which usually never exists) is pickles and root beer. Ummmm. Sounds good, huh? I think I will indulge in a little while! Cottage cheese sounds good too! Off to raid the fridge!

Raging Hormones

I am so irritated right now. On Wednesday, my Hcg was 680 so I was to return for bld work Friday, today. So I go in for my 11am appt and wait all day for the nurse to call back and tell me that all of their pregnancy tests were messed up and they did not get results for ANYBODY!! That is right...I had my bld drawn and waited all day for nothing. Grrrr, I am highly irritated as this is the second time this week that this has happened. I was expecting my ultrasound to be on Monday, but now I have to return for bld work on Monday and an ultrasound on Wednesday. I am going to see if I can get the ultrasound done Tuesday. I can't wait any more. I am impatient and hormonal!!!

BFP!!

We are pregnant! I had my beta drawn Friday the 15th and it came back at 139! It was 132 at this time with Carter and Olivia. I have another beta tomorrow and likely an u/s late this week or early next week! We are very excited! I have been having some OHSS symptoms and I am very tired (lazy) lately. Those are my only symptoms...oh and being STARVING ALL THE TIME!!! Here is my 4 week belly pic with OHSS at 120# and my preg tests! (there is a comparison pic from before stims and preg. A much flatter belly than now!)

The 2ww begins!

the dreaded tww has begun. We had our final IUI on Friday! Man, how I forgot how painful it was to ovulate 30000 eggs! Just kidding, there were only about 30. 11 mature but estrogen only backs up about half of those. Symptoms since the tww began include extreme moodiness....wait...i have had that symptom since birth!! Ah, well. It exists, might I say it is a little worse?? Still having just TONS of abdominal pain and BLOATING. I swear my belly is bigger now than it was when I was 6 months preggo with the kids. AAhhhhgg. I feel like if I was thrown overboard I would float on the surface for days!! Not a fun feeling. I am still having the twinges of pain that scream out from my ovaries. They are still pretty ticked at me right now, and they are not gonna let me forget about it anytime soon. We hope we are preggo. We are really going to be in a pickle if more than 3 eggs fertilized. We just hope and pray that they did not. We are trying to rest easy by leaving it up to God. Trusting that he will not give us more than we can handle gets us through this...most of the time. Sometimes I think we might need to send Him a memo.