My follow-up ultrasound is tomorrow morning. When I was scanned two weeks ago at what should have been 5 weeks 5 days, they found a small gestational sac in the uterus, but that's it. My HCG level the day before had been 6,200+ - but there was no fetal pole, no yolk sac (and God Almighty am I tired of trying to google "gestational sac in uterus and no yolk sac" and getting back hit after hit for "yoke" sac. Freaking yokels.) I know I ovulate late (usually day 17-18 on a 28/29 day cycle) so I wasn't going to be terribly surprised if they said that the pregnancy was dating behind but when she said it was dating only about 4 weeks 4 days, I was a bit taken aback.
So, two weeks later we're hoping we see an actual embryo in there with a strong heart beat. I'm still spotting on and off - I've just stopped talking about it because really, that gets boring after awhile. I'm still nauseous all the time - especially at night, but I'm not vomiting. I just get the "oh holy jesus I should've stopped after four shots of tequila last night" queasiness (yes, I've quit drinking completely - but you can't tell me you've never had that feeling before, and if you have, don't tell me) and the unmistakable feeling of the room spinning. Oddly, the one thing that triggers my nausea the most is watching something move - looking out the car or train window, scrolling through a document at work and watching the text fly by - or even watching the pantry door shut. The boobs are enormous, and sore and swollen and the nips are on constant TERROR THREAT ORANGE alert. (I dare you to spend more than an hour in Chicago O'Hare and not go insane listening to that over and over and over and over and over on the loudspeakers). I'm still out cold most nights by 9:00. I just cannot stay awake that late, though the crushing desire to nap during the day is lessening.
My stepmother has told my entire extended family it seems (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) So we're hoping and praying that everything in the scan goes well. I've read plenty of success stories about women with strong HCGs and retroverted (my ute is essentially flipped back toward my spine, and she "dresses" left a bit as well apparently) uteri showing a healthy heartbeat a little later than normal.
Tomorrow will mark cycle day 55, and I think I ovulated around day 17 - so that should put me at uhhhh 38 DPO? Why I'm even keeping up with this I have no idea. I'm having a hard time switching to the week/days dichotomy that seems to be peppered through the pregnancy sites that I've lurked on (trying to temper my feelings of being a fraud). If I was supposed to be 5 weeks 5 days 2 weeks ago - then I guess I'll be at 7 weeks 5 days - or by my calculation right at 7 weeks 1 day or so?
I've been biting my insanely long - due to prenatal vitamins - nails all day in nervous trepidation.
If I was a religious person, I'd be deep in prayer right now. Oh - who am I kidding, I'm praying to anyone who will listen. Ganesha, Allah, Yahweh, Sweet Baby Jesus, whatever. I'm an equal opportunity employer.
If you've got any good mojo to spare, I'll happily take it as well.
And in case you were wondering, today was apparently the day for parentheses.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
To the quick.
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All good thoughts to you, hon.
You sound pretty pregnant to me. Remember, they add on two weeks from your last menstrual period OR retrieval, if you do IVF. So, for myself, retrieval (fertilization) was on 6/18 and they added on 2 weeks. My baby is 12w development, but I'm at 14w. Here's one calculation site: http://www.ivf.ca/calcu.htm
I, too, had a development issue early on, but at the next scan the kid showed up for proper dating and sizing. I think you're going to be just fine.
This might help some. I had my first u/s at 5w6d. They saw one fetal pole for the first baby and for the second one just an empty sac. At the next ultrasound at 7 weeks, both were present with a heartbeat. Baby B was still a week behind (dates were right, IVF) and continued to be a week behind his brother throughout pregnancy and a week behind for dates until week 12. They told me he may not make it early on, but he's 13 months old now. Oh, and I didn't have morning sickness either really.
Good luck tomorrow.
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