Moving Time

We're all set for Moving day! Eric has been a trooper and has packed the entire apartment on his own! (With close supervision, of course.) He's done this in conjunction with getting ready to start school on Monday 08/27/2007. (also our closing date) We're still finishing the last few stages of packing, but everything should be ready by the actual moving day of Wednesday, August 29,2007. Final walk through is this Sunday at 3:00pm. Movers are booked, utilities are lined up, and we're ready to be rid of apartment living.

As for baby news: WARNING: The following content may be offensive to some readers. A light heart and steady stomach required.

Those very apparent pregnancy symptoms have really been in full swing for the last couple of weeks. Exhaustion has taken hold and I find myself napping on my lunch hour and passing out as soon as I arrive home for the evening, not to wake till the next morning. When I'm not sleeping, I am puking, when I'm not puking, I'm thinking about puking. I am developing quite the talent for puking and commuting at the same time. I used to pull over, now I have a barf bag. Eric gets a kick out of this, because I even have a can I carry around the house with me, just in case. I see the toilet more than I see Eric these days. Funny story about the toilet.......... Due to some constipation problems, I've found a great sense of achievement and relief in making poopie. It's so rare that when the glorious moment comes, I want to shout, "I made poopie! I made poopie!" As though I was a two year old that has just completed a potty training boot camp. Needless to say, this is all perfectly natural and a very good sign of a healthy pregnancy, so I'm told.

Our next appointment is 09/11/2007 with the high risk specialist Dr. Paroski referred. Then on 09/17/2007 we see Dr. Paroski for our 12 week check up. That will be the end of our first trimester. They say that's a big milestone, lower risk of miscarriage at this point. And, bonus, my symptoms might subside a little.

Thanks for everyone be with us through all this! Stay tuned for more exciting updates to come.

August 17, 2007

Oh happy day! We had another appointment today. The doctor did another sonogram and said that everything looks very good. Last Saturday, I began a progesterone supplement. A blood test showed my natural progesterone level to be low, so the Dr. thinks this is a good way to add a little more support to the pregnancy. We also had a little spotting scare throughout the last weekend, but the bleeding has since subsided. It's also been a week of verrrry strong pregnancy symptoms, (excessive nausea, dizziness, and overall exhaustion and lots of vomitting!) all of which are good signs. We've been referred to a perinatologist(I can't even say it, much less, spell it). It's a doctor who specializes in high risk pregnancies. With a previous miscarriage and high blood pressure, the Dr. says we should have them on the team as consultants, should anything serious happen. Dr. also says that she believes we are actually eight weeks along! So, all is well for now. Our next appointment is September 15th, stay tuned!

On July 18th, we saw the doctor to determine if fertility medicine we had been taking was going to work. The goal was to see folicles(eggs) in my ovaries ready to drop(ovulation) with a sonogram. The news was good and bad. One ovary had two eggs ripe and ready to go. The other showed nothing, except a large cyst sitting right on top of it. She also saw that my uterine wall was measuring a little thicker than it should have been. These were all things we were told not to be alarmed about. She recommended attempting to conceive and we would go from there. If conception was not successful, we would stop trying temporarily, to further investigate the suspicious conditions through a biopsy and other tests.

On July 23rd, after a very uncomfortable week of nausea, I took a pregnancy test. Positive, very positive.

We went to our first prenatal Dr. appointment today, which was supposed to be a four week appointment, turns out we're more like six weeks along. (We may have already been pregnant at the appointment on the 18th.) Dr. Paroski says everything looks very good. She'll be watching closely due to several high risk factors. We're working to control my high blood pressure with medicine and my nausea with more medicine, and some digestive issues with even more medicine. Other than that, I'm experiencing all the other typical pregnancy symptoms. Eric has been working very hard to keep me comfortable and happy. He's been amazing. I'm sure he'll appreciate any sympathy you can offer him in having to deal with a very emotional pregnant wife.