hCG and Progesterone

OMG!!!! I am over the moon excited!!! So, I had my levels tested on Thurs. and to be honest when they called me back with the results I was a little nervous. I wouldn't have been nervous if they would have just told me the numbers because I'm type A personality and had already looked up normal ranges. So, it wasn't the numbers that made me nervous, but the way they said them. The nurse told me that my progesterone was on the low side of normal at 18.5 (which begins at 18) and that I would need to take progesterone for the first trimester until the placenta fully takes over. mmmm..nerves... Then she told me my hCG levels were at 3 wk. levels when they should have been at 4 week levels at 383 (I personally just think she was mistaken with this as everything I can find says  they were well within normal).

Well, get this!!!!! Your hCG levels normally double within 2-3 days so I was just praying that my level would be 1500-1600 when I tested again 4 days later. Well, as it turns out my levels are doubling ever 1.5 days and my level was 2473:) YAY!!!!! My progesterone level was up to 22, but I do still have to keep taking those meds, which is perfectly fine with me; anything I can do that will help is a good thing in my mind.

Now I am looking forward to my first u/s appt. which is in just over a week. I will be 6 wks. 6 days so we should definitely be able to see something even if it does resemble a tadpole. LOL!! Then, my first OB appt. is 2 wks. after that, and I will be 8 wks. 6 days.

I am not so secretly hoping for twins so I am hoping that is what such quick doubling hCG levels mean:) Don't tell the hubs I said that though. LOL! A lot of people seem to feel I need a boy now that I have a girl, which I keep telling everyone that is fine as long as he comes with another girl:)

November 27.....

....will be my due date!!!! I am happy to say I am FINALLY pregnant:) I have been putting off blogging because I had a strong feeling that I was and didn't want to post anything until I knew for sure. This is a WONDERFUL day!!!

Clomid update

I was so down about this journey I am on that I really had no motivation to write about it this time. I feel kind of bad about that now so I am just going to do a quick update. I filled my last refill and took those on CDs 5-9 as usual. I wasn't as good about taking it the same time every day as I had been on previous months and would forget a lot. I mean.....not for long...just like an hour or two at most. I did change my diet, but I really have been a slacker at working out which just makes me upset with myself. I am happy with my weight and all; I just want to be more fit. I had some nice abs and now I have a softish belly:(

Anyway...Clomid side effects were not that gosh awful bad, but I have been getting such bad anxiety and depression that I decided to go back on meds for that. I was trying to battle it out, but I didn't feel like it was fair of me to do that to my poor hubby. I was calling him in tears regularly asking him to come home from work. I had a positive OPK on March 7th (CD 16) and went in for my blood test on March 14 (CD 23). The blood test was positive for ovulation but negative for pregnancy. Once again I am trying to keep my hopes up, but to be honest it is getting much harder. I keep telling myself that it normally takes 7-10 days for implantation and then it takes another 2+ days for it to show up on a pregnancy test (blood or urine) so really when I get the blood test done not enough time has passed. I am supposed to start on Sunday so we'll see how it goes. I did get a talking to from my nurse though. She reminded me they only do 6 months of Clomid before sending you to a fertility clinic, and she asked if Kevin had had a semen analysis (which he hasn't because it's not covered by ins. at all). I think I am only taking Clomid for another month or 2 anyway though before we give it a break. Hopefully a higher dosage too.

Birthday Weekend

My parents decided to take my sister and me on a little ski trip for our birthdays to Sugar Mountain, NC. My sis's b-day was Feb. 26 and mine is March 17 and I will be 25!!!!! (for the 3rd time....gulp) We had actually planned of learning to snowboard, but decided just to tube and stuff before going. Well, let me just tell you that ALL DAY Saturday it was horrible outside!!!! It rained and sleeted all day long. That was perfectly okay though because it was a wonderful weekend anyway:) The best part of the trip for me was watching my little niece and my little V playing like crazy. They are best friends!! It is the most precious thing to see. Next fave thing was probably playing Uno and Phase 10 with the fam. The trip just went to prove that family time is the best time! We went to a ski lodge and the girls played out in the snow a little bit and it was total cuteness:) The cabin was gorgeous and on Sun. the rain decided it would turn to snow (blizzard) and it covered everything before we left. It was stunning and the only thing I could have wished different about the trip would have been for it to have snowed instead of rained on Sat.

We were greeted with the BEAUTIFUL view when we stepped in the cabin.

Happy Birthday to us! (this is the table we played cards around)

The kiddos LOVED the bath:)

They watched Elmo together.

At the Ski Resort playing in the snow!

Resting after playing outside at the Ski Resort. 

The snow before we left.