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January 6, 2002
C#14, CD#30 - No AF in sight; 5+++ hpts!
Hello!
Well, I can finally say the 3 words I have been waiting nearly a year and a half to say - I AM PREGNANT!!!!!!!
Yep, it looks like my Christmas miracle was just a couple of weeks in getting here. Our 2nd IUI attempt on December 23rd was successful. I cannot tell you how excited I am getting! Although, I will go in tomorrow morning for the beta blood test, and frankly until I find out that my hcg levels are rising appropriately, I will probably not be completely convinced. However, the other side of that is I've had 5 + hpts in the last 48 hours, and no AF in sight - so things are looking good!
Let me back up to Friday...it was 13dpiui, and I have never (even with Clomid and IUI cycles) gone past 11 or 12 dpo without starting to spot. So I was at school and looking every time I went to the bathroom, and nothing. I started to get this crazy idea that I should test, and I had ordered a six pack from Craig Medical that I was expecting to arrive any day in the mail. I called DH from home and asked if hte mail had come, and he said there was a package for me, so I rushed home after school to test. Lo and behold, there were 2 lines! The test line, though, was pretty faint, really hard to see, so I tried not to get my hopes up too much. I also wondered if the hcg shot might still be in my system, but it was day 14 after getting it, so I figured it wold be out by Saturday. On Saturday morning, I got up and tested again. This time the line was a little easier to see, but still not really dark. Of course, looking at the directions it did say you should wait 36-48 hours if you didn't see a dark line and test again, but who can wait that long (LOL)?! I did another test last night, same thing. One of my friends suggested trying a different brand to compare. So this morning I tried one of the ones I'd gotten and also a store brand, and both were positive! They were still light lines, but much easier to see, and the line came up right away on one of them, which was promising. I will probably take the last test tomorrow morning before going in for my blood test - just love to see that + sign! I'd love to say I had some creative way of telling DH, but I just busted out and blurted "Do you see two lines or am I crazy?" He then became my second opinion for every other test.
We ended up telling more people than we thought we would, but when you've tried for so long it seems that more people know you're having trouble, and things get more complicated. We've told our parents and my sister (whose baby will be 6 mos. older than ours), and I told my dr. at church today when I saw her (my regular ob/gyn, not my RE). We also told our small bible study group, because they know about our struggles to conceive and they've been so supportive and descrete about it. The more we talk about it, the more real the prospect becomes, and the more excited we get! As for everyone else, I'm sure it will leak out here and there, but we really want to wait until after we see a h/b.
According to the whole due date calculation thing, my EDD is September 15 - one month before my 28th birthday. The timing really is good, I can go back to school and meet my class and get them started, then take off for maternity leave.
Symptoms...I have to say that I felt absolutely NOTHING out of the ordinary this month! At least nothing that I would contribute to being pg at that time. Last month my bbs hurt like crazy right after the IUI, this month not at all. Looking back, I think that some things I felt were symptoms. I have been really tired lately, taking naps every day, which is not like me. I thought it was just from going back to school after a break. I've also had intestinal problems, from one extreme to the other, and heartburn (which I never have), but I attributed that to weird holiday eating schedules, then they lasted past the holidays. I really felt like I was about to start AF on Tuesday and Wednesday - cramps and all, but then they stopped. That was probably the strangest of all, that these cramps all of a sudden just went away. I still cramp a little, but it's a different feeling. It feels more like a tightness down there or a stretching than an AF cramp. It's hard to explain.
I am really having a hard time believing this is happening. I truly still look for AF every time I go into the bathroom. I wonder when that will go away? You just get so used to it after so long, you can't believe things can be different. And we really didn't think we had much of a chance this month. Just one follicle, and one IUI try - as opposed to two and two last month - we really didn't hold out much hope. Just goes to show you that miracles do happen, and this gift of life truly is just that - a miracle.
We're remaining "cautiously excited" (as one of my board buddies phrased it), and of course will be relieved as the weeks tick by and we find out things are moving along as planned. Until then, I wait, and pray, and thank God for this miraculous blessing.
Thanks to everyone for posting on my boards this weekend - I am really lucky for the support and encouragement. Good luck to everyone else out there, and congrats to my Christmas Miracle twin Laura C. on her positive news!
Tag - it's someone else's turn to get pg now! :)
Take care,
Laura & The Christmas Miracle
(EDD 9/15/02)
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