I'm gonna puke on you!

I don't know why they call it morning sickness. I feel great in the morning. It's the afternoon around 2 or 3 and for sure after dinner that I feel queasy. I don't feel like puking though, just queasy.

I'm back to my non-sweet cravings. I had scrambled eggs with ketchup for a snack the other night. That was yummy.

We had our ultrasound on Monday and there was a little baby in there with a heartbeat. We get a follow-up ultrasound on Thursday to make sure the heartbeat goes up (it was a little slow on Monday) and then we'll be on a regular appt schedule I think. No more "viability" appointments. That'll be nice.

I'm going to have to post some pictures of my bellies and of our leeetle baby (who is currently the size of a lentil).

Here's right at the beginning, probably about 4 weeks and a few days. Just my normal tummy. I do think I'm starting to pooch out sooner than I did last time, but that's because my body already knows what to do. Nobody but me would notice it though. Everyone else will just think I'm gaining weight.
Here's my uterus. The white snake-like thing is the baby and the yolk sac. Still very little. :)

Never too early to freak out

So we successfully inseminated again on January 12th. The same day we got our new doggy, Ella. The first time we got pregnant, we bought a car the same day we inseminated. Hehehe. Next time we'll have to come up with something else big to get.

Since our first pregnancy ended at 17 1/2 weeks, I'm a little nervous about this one. Understandably. Already I noticed that this one has been a little different than the first. I had a lot of breast tenderness last time, so far I have none. I don't really have any pregnancy symptoms this time except for some lightheadedness now and then and getting tired early.

Friday I noticed some spotting. The first thing to cross my mind was, "You've got to be kidding me." I never spotted the last time. So of course, even though I know that spotting can happen and a completely normal pregnancy can still progress, I am freaking out on Friday. I start to feel better but then Saturday I spot again. So I call the midwives and go into the hospital to get my hCG levels tested. One number by itself doesn't necessarily tell you whether the pregnancy is progressing or not, but it can give you an idea if things are good or bad.

The midwive Shelley tells me that spotting at this gestation is sort of 50/50. 50% of the time the pregnancy progresses normally and there are no complications. 50% of the time the spotting is a sign of something to come. It's good that I don't really have any complications and that I haven't had any red spotting, just brown.

2 hours after we leave the hospital, I call the midwives to get my quantities. Midwife Hope says "Your quants are actually very high for 6 weeks -- 25,000". So the number is good. She tells me that a lot of the time when someone starts spotting this early, their numbers are very low.

So 25,000 is pretty high (though the range is huge, "normal" for 6 weeks is: 1,080 - 56,500 mIU/ml) so of course I go and look up what a high hCG level means thinking, "TWINS!" and I find out that it could also be a sign of a molar pregnancy. So I can still freak out. Hehe. But I'm not because I don't really think it's a molar pregnancy. I'm voting twins.

All will hopefully be cleared up tomorrow because I have an ultrasound scheduled and an appointment with one of the midwives (Agnes this time).

As long as I don't spot today, I'll feel better. :)