Update

So after I got my results and beautiful ultrasound picture on Monday, my nurse called to tell me that there was a misunderstanding with when I was getting discharged (kicked out) from the fertility clinic. I thought I was getting kicked out on Tuesday, which in my mind was WAY too early...and I had expressed my thoughts on this to both my nurses and finally they must have realized just how right I was.

So my next and last appointment with the fertility clinic is next Thursday, March 20th at Noon. I will have another ULTRASOUND...yay...I am SO excited about that! I wonder how much he or she grew?? On that date I will be just a couple of days shy of 8 weeks...so I'm expecting to see a little bit more than a shrimp. Of course, I will be excited just to see that little heart beating again.

The nurse did mention that I was also going to have bloodwork done (very typical of these visits), but that they were going to stop measuring my HcG levels as they usually plateau once a heartbeat is found. That's good for me....because otherwise, I will keep comparing those numbers and I don't want to worry if it doesn't double in a specific timeframe... :)

Let's see....no morning sickness to report. I'm tired more on some days and other times I am just as tired as I was before I was pregnant. Some days it seems I am soooo hungry and other days, I am hungry just like normal. I am trying to eat more fruits and vegetables and drink milk. I love milk, however with my Chron's diagnosis back in 2000 I learned that drinking milk really upset my stomach and made me feel just awful. Since I've learned I was pregnant, I've drank several glasses of milk throughout the couple weeks and have felt fine. Sometimes it makes me bloated, but for the most part it is okay. I've also started letting yogurt back in my diet...and that is working well too. I really don't ever 'need' sweets. Before I was pregnant, there were definitely times that I would eat a cookie or brownie....but now, I see it and think....eh, I don't really feel like that taste right now. Which makes me sad, cuz I know they're so delicious...but happy, cuz I know that wouldn't help with gaining weight!

It is weird....I talk about this and it's so weird to know that there is a little person inside my belly. John and I love to look at the ultrasound picture...we both smile huge when we see the little baby on the picture....but it's still so surreal to me that there is actually a live, growing, beautiful baby inside me. I think once I start showing and feeling the baby move then it will become a bit more 'real'.