Summer of 2010 we decided to go for it.
We tried for 6 months on our own to conceive on our own. I temped everyday for those 6 months, bought OPKs (ovulation predictor kits), I even tried a fertility test since it came in the box I had bought. Nothing. I was getting tired of before I got up putting the thermometer in my mouth to get my temp, then going to the bathroom to see if my hormones were high enough for me to ovulate and putting all the information on an online chart. Sex every other day for a week or two.
That last cycle was murder on me. It was 45 days and I was miserable, PMS symptoms like crazy and my period wasn't coming. Through my charting I found that I didn't even ovulate that cycle. So did the doctor. It was clear we weren't going to be able to do it on our own. So here comes the fertility drugs. I temped again every morning, used the OPK every morning, had a pill to take on cycle days 3-21 and another one to take on cycle days 5-10 and sex again scheduled by the doctor (he marked a chart for me.) I did everything exactly like the doctor "prescribed."
December 12, 2010, I got a negative test. A negative test doesn't mean anything until the big red dot shows up. Plus it wasn't time for my dot to start, I was being hopeful. I felt weird. I was suffering from something I had no idea what it was for several days, I had to look it up on google to find out what it was.... heartburn. For the first time in my life I had heartburn! I was cramping too. I never cramp before my period. The day before my period would be due, I took a test to see if I should be expecting it.
December 14, 2010, A faint positive showed up. I called my hubby's boss who was supposed to be helping me tell hubby. She was going to tell him he needed to call me ASAP and make it sound like a big emergency. I waited until I was to get a call from him so I could call the doctor. Since it was past time for him to be at work, I wanted to make it look like I had tried to get him and couldn't before his boss got to him so I sent him a text telling him to call me ASAP. He did. He was late getting into work and my text got to him first, (dammit). I told him I got a positive. We're having a baby and I'm calling the doctor to set up our first appointment!
I called the doctor to set up the appointment, I have to come in for blood work first. OK how long before you get it back? If you come in before this time we'll have it back today! All right, I'm on my way. They called me back later telling me my progesterone was fine, and that I was REALLY early, well yes by my calculations I'm 3 weeks 4 days! Yes very early! My beta number was 88.7.
I had to tell my mom so I tried being subtle about it. I told her we needed to change the lottery numbers and I needed to know how many numbers we needed to complete it. I knew we needed 5 numbers, so I said well I know I want the numbers 8, 26 and 11. She didn't get it. So I tried it a different way, 8-26-11. Still didn't get it. How about August 26, 2011? Nope. I said I wish your phone could get pictures cause I'd send one to you. She gave me her work email. So I sent it. She told me later that she had to get one of the "younger" ladies to let her know what it was. "Oh someone's pregnant! Who's pregnant?" Mom said she yelled so loudly that she had to let everyone know there. Now she gets it!
December 16, 2010, I took another test to make sure the test was going to get darker. It did. Went to the doc to have another beta done the next day. Beta numbers 314.7. Last beta done December 20, 2010 number: 1887. My first appointment was scheduled for January 10, 2011. (A snowstorm would prevent me from going in that day, but we were able to go in the next day.)
First pregnancy test December 14,2010
First ultrasound January 11,2011 (fetal nickname Kakuna after the Pokemon that looks like a cocoon.)
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