6w5d
The last two weeks has been pretty busy and add to that my exhaustion, I haven't had any time to update. I've been hitting the hay between 8:30 and 9:00 every night instead of my usual 10 or 11.
I left off two weeks ago requesting luck for my 3rd beta after my 2nd came back with a low number. The 3rd beta was 2166!! Which is more than double the 2nd beta (899) and more than quadruple the first beta of 489. I was so relieved. It was a very tense week waiting for those results.
We told D's parents last 2 weekends ago because they were going away and my parents last weekend because they were too busy the weekend before. We told both sets of parents the same way.
I made a couple of thank you cards because they had both significantly contributed financially to our IVF cycle. Inside the card I wrote a little not expressing our thanks and asked that they accept this gift as a token of our thanks. I gave them a picture frame that I had picked up a while ago on sale at Walmart. On the frame it said "Grand kids complete the circle of life" and inside I printed a sign, kinda like yellow diamond construction sign that said:
Baby Under Construction
Est. Completion: June 28, 2013
Pretty much everyone had the same reaction "Really???"
My Uncle G, who is staying at my parents house, was the first to get "Congratulations" out. My mom came over and gave me a hug and cried. For the rest of the night she said she couldn't concentrate on the conversation, all she could hear was "baby baby baby? Baby baby-baby baby. Baby." She tried to get my dad to get down the cradle that she has above the garage but I told her I didn't want anything until after Christmas. She is not allowed to do anything until after Christmas - including tell anyone! That is going to be hard for her.
H wasn't there when we told my parents but when she got there, my mom showed her the frame (with my permission) and H jumped on couch were D and I were sitting, in between us, and gave us each a big hug. Her dog was going a little crazy because he couldn't figure out why she was so excited and he kept trying to get to her by climbing over me.
It was almost the same with D's parents, his mom cried a little when she opened the frame. His sister kept asking "is this what I think it means? I dont' want to make any assumptions here." I told her to make assumptions and yes it means what you think it means. She went all red in the face and started crying too. They were having company over for dinner and they were expected any minute so I had to tell L "Ok, now get over it, they can't know!"
In other news, last Friday (6w0d), I woke up feeling short of breath. I couldn't walk up my stairs without feeling winded and I couldn't speak a full sentence without taking a deep breath. I called the FC first thing in the morning to let them know what I was feeling so they could reassure me that it was normal and not a sign of OHSS. I had also been very bloated so I was concerned that my abdomen and lungs were full of fluid as a result of OHSS. If this happens it has to be monitored very closely to make sure it does not need intervention.
D came with me to the clinic that afternoon and they did an ultrasound on my abdomen including up around my rib cage to check my lungs. They didn't let us see anything but we met with one of the RE's right away. She told me that I do not have OHSS and in fact, I am out of the woods at this point for developing it. That would have been a good thing to know before we down there, it would have saved us a trip! She said that the symptoms I was experiencing - the bloating and the shortness of breath - is a result of the progesterone in my system. Also, that those symptoms were probably exaggerated because the ultrasound tech could see two yolk sacks in there.
IT'S TWINS!!!!
It's still pretty early, so anything can still happen, but I feel like crap most days so I'm counting that as a good sign!
