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Amy's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 12/13/00 -------------------- 12/4/00 11/19/00 11/6/00 10/16/00 10/10/00 9/23/00 9/4/00 8/15/00 8/6/00 7/30/00 7/24/00 7/10/00 6/25/00 6/21/00 6/13/00 6/5/00 5/29/00 -------------------- Amy's Introduction

November 19, 2000

TTC #1, CD #40, C#21

Greetings to everyone this week! I hope that this has proven to be a positive and hopeful week for you!

I am about to utter those words which I thought I would never get to utter after two years+ of aggressive fertility treatments! WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I am pregnant!!!!!!! Troy and I are still in such shock. I didn't post on the boards right away because I think I was just too numb to tell people -- like I was waiting for the alarm clock to ring and I would wake up and this would be one big happy dream, like I have had so many nights before! It's just amazing!

I wanted to share the story how I came to realize this wonderful news! I had finished a round of the Repronex injectables, the same ones I started before, but had to stop after three days due to the cysts.) Well, we kept going back to the RE for ultrasound and blood work and each time was good news. I finally ended up with some pretty large follicles, as I mentioned earlier. After the IUI, I began to cramp every single day! I mean really cramping! I knew that something had to be going on in there. RE said that if I take any HPTs, they will come up positive because of the hCG shot to release my eggs. So, I naturally took an HPT about three days after the IUI for fun, thinking I wouldn't actually ever see a + HPT. And, lo and behold, it was very light, but positive. Then maybe five days after that, another test, this time negative. So, I knew the shot was out of my system. (Actually, I ended up taking two HPTs with negative results.)

I was driving myself nutty with these HPTs. The weekend before I was to get the blood results, one of my best girlfriends, Marby, had her baby! I was a blubbering mess when I left the hospital. When I got home, I began looking for the last test I had in the house. Troy had hidden it!!!!! I begged and screamed for him to give it to me. Well, he finally gave in. I took the test and there it was! A very faint line shining through the window! Troy argued and said it was too faint to be positive. I then showed him the literature with the tests explaining that a faint line is a line!

Well, the next morning, I took another test and it was bright pink before it even made it to the other window!!!!!!!! We were ecstatic! Troy was not going to get too excited until he had the blood work. So on Monday, I went for the actual hCG reading in my blood. The nurse said that a reading of around 100 would be super! My initial reading was 271.3!!!!!!!!! (With an estrogen level equally high!) This caused some alarm for multiplies. They told me that after my hCG got over 2,000, they would do an ultrasound to see how many! It only took a week for that number to climb and last Monday we got to see our new baby! There is one -- unless there ended up being two yolk sacs to make identical twins (which we don't know yet).

RE released me back to my OB/GYN and she is so confident in the strong hormone levels that I don't go back until Dec. 18! I feel like my "apron strings" have been cut! I will be OK, though.

I am having lots and lots of heartburn so far! I am just starting to feel nauseated, but certain that the best is yet to come. I am actually going into my sixth week. Some women get morning sickness right away, and for others, it sometimes comes in the sixth-plus week. Whenever it comes, I will thank the Lord for every minute of it!!!!!!

I am sorry to those who wrote asking what was going on. I just wasn't ready to go public yet. I was quite vague with many and I apologize.

Sorry to bore you with this long story, but every day and every little pain and ache is such a milestone for those of us who have TTC for so long!!! I wish that every mom-to-be had as much excitement for their unborn child as we have. There would be lots and lots of loved kids -- and not as much neglect and hatred toward children.

I will keep you posted on how I am feeling! Thanks for all of your prayers and words of encouragement! I have really felt it! Let's just keep praying that this goes to term!

Here's extra PG dust to all ******************************************!!!!

Lots of love, Amy W.