February 5th, 2008
Someone posted on the second trimester message board on the nest today asking if this Chinese Gender Prediction Chart gave the correct sex of their babies (most of the women there have already had their “big” ultrasound where they find out the sex) and the overwhelming response was that is was correct!
Who would have thought [...]
January 29th, 2008
I got the blood test portion of our NT screening back today and they were excellent!
Prior to testing, my risk for having a baby with Down’s was 1/307. After the scan, its is only now 1/6000.
For Trisomy 13 & 18 (which is often fatal for the baby) my risk prior to testing was 1/524, but [...]
January 25th, 2008
The NT scan was absolutely amazing.. completely surreal that there is a little baby growing inside me. And unlike my last two ultrasounds where it was just a blob with a heartbeat, becoming-baby actually looks like a mini baby - fingers, toes, face, arms legs and everything!
The baby was moving around so much, waving, kicking, [...]
January 22nd, 2008
This weekend I had an appointment with my local quest labs to get the “Ashkenazi Jewish” panel of genetic screening done. The fact that I am a full blooded Jew and that Jeff is 1/4 Jew necessitates all the extra screening. Apparently the chosen people are also chosen for a few more diseases than the [...]
read more...January 7th, 2008
Belly Pic, 9 weeks pregnant
So I thought I had gotten off pretty easy being that I haven’t really had much morning sickness to speak of. Or so I thought.
What I have been experiencing is constant hunger, the kind that makes you want to gnaw your hand off and feel like you are going [...]
December 27th, 2007
Today was such an exciting day, we heard our baby’s heartbeat, I “graduated” from my RE, and will most likely get to stop taking those disgusting progesterone suppositories!
Dr. K started off the scan by zooming in so we could see how much blobby has grown in the past week and a half:
The entire baby is [...]
read more...December 18th, 2007
Due to the spotting and cramping, I went in for my second ultrasound yesterday instead of Thursday like I had planned. Blobby is doing great and Dr. K said there was lots of development. I couldn’t tell at all (other than the fact that the sac was bigger) until he zoomed in and we saw [...]
read more...December 15th, 2007
A little bit of brownish spotting last night on my pantyliner (that I’m still wearing all the time courtesy of the endometrin suppositories) and on the applicator when I used it last night and a bit again this morning. Plus the cramps came back a bit last night.
I know spotting can be “normal” and a [...]
December 14th, 2007
I know, two posts in one day.. but I’m totally fuming (sorry blobby, hopefully my heart rate will go back down to normal in a few minutes!) after I just got off the phone with Oxford.
Let me preface this by saying I am completely grateful that I have any infertility insurance coverage at all and [...]
December 14th, 2007
In my original excitement to finally be pregnant I found the first due date calculator google proffered and it was the kind that you put in the date of your last menstrual period (LMP method). That puts me a 5 weeks and 3 days today with a due date of August 12th. But the LMP [...]
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