Laughing with Sarah

Gotta' love quick, easy doctor's appointments. Weight was pretty consistent with my weight from my heartbeat check, which puts me at a pretty negligible overall weight gain since my first appointment. Dr. Locke seemed satisfied with that, and I'm remembering that I was slow to gain weight early on with Sam as well. Somehow, though, my belly and boobs seem to keep growing! In fact, near the beginning of this week, I sprouted a little belly - quite literally overnight. I'm still not sure you'd know I was pregnant by looking at me, especially if you didn't know me before, but the bump has definitely begun to get bumpy. :) Blood pressure was nice and low, which is GREAT. I want to keep it that way as long as possible. It only took a few seconds to catch the heartbeat, much to my relief and joy. It was Matt's first time hearing Owlet's heartbeat! Yay! Heart rate was clocked at 164, which is just fine. According to all the old wives' tales, faster he...

Welcome, back, family members who have been shut out of this blog for a few weeks! We finally shared the news with both sides of our family this past week, so I can now come out of hiding (not that I managed to write a whole lot during the weeks I kept the blog private or anything). First of all, I realized that I never followed up on my last anxious post! Oops. I went back to the doctor a week later for a quick, off-the-books heartbeat check. I went into the office with high hopes but few expectations, and even fewer emotional back-up plans in the event that we still couldn't hear anything. Dr. Locke asked me how I was feeling, and whether my belly had started feeling any bigger to me yet or not. And then out came the doppler. It took about six seconds before we heard the glorious sound of that teeny heartbeat, galloping away inside my belly. I had scrunched my eyes closed from the moment I got onto the table, and once I heard that sound, I got a little teary, and a huge smil...

It finally happened. I had a freak-out. Took me nearly 10 weeks this time, which is pretty impressive. Yesterday we had our first OB visit. I'd met with the OB nurse coordinator a couple weeks ago to do a bunch of preliminary stuff, including bloodwork. Yesterday, we had our appointment with Dr. Locke. A lot of good conversation, especially about the complications with Sam's birth (but my perfect health for the entire pregnancy before that!). We talked through our IVF and FET cycles, and about plans and considerations for this pregnancy (repeat c-section, intentions to breastfeed, weight goals, nutrition goals, etc.) Once again, I will affirm just how much we love Dr. Locke! We did a basic physical exam, and again, everything seems healthy and fine. Uterus is measuring in the 8-9 week range, which Dr. Locke considers spot-on (except that I'm close to 10 weeks, so I don't know what to do with that). The only bugger was that we couldn't pick up a heartbeat on the ...