Waiting 4 weeks between appointments just doesn't cut it. I cannot wait to go back to the Dr. next Monday. I need to know that everything is okay. Some days I wish for a doppler but I am not going to go there. I tell myself that if something were wrong, my body would let me know. While I know that isn't always true I am trying to take comfort wherever I can. I seem to be growing larger, which is somewhat reassuring, it is somewhat more difficult to hide "my condition". I don't want to hide anymore, I just want to know that all is well. I think I miscalculated on my last post, 6 days to the next u/s, 20 days to the anatomy scan. I am thankful to be really busy at work, otherwise I would be climbing the walls. The days fly by as do the weekends. Thursday marks 16 weeks. I know I sound like a broken record but I am still waiting for this to seem real. It is so weird, pregnancy after infertility.
On another note, I am thrilled that so many of my fellow bloggers have gotten their bfps! Tippy and Rebecca are both pregnant with twins!! Junebug recently brought home a beautiful baby girl, and Alex just gave birth to her lovely little girl, Congratulations ladies! Many of my favorite bloggers are also in the midst of cycling, Francie and Elaine, amongst others, I wish you all the best. CGD and Jes, who are stuck in limbo-land, my thoughts are with you, I know how hard it is to be struggling, especially in the midst of pregnancy news. I hope that we will soon be celebrating your success too!
Ugh! The most I've had to wait is 3 weeks and that is pushing it! I too always told myself that my body would know if something is wrong, but that reassurance that everything is fine..for sure really does help! I told my OB's office going into this that I wouldn't be able to wait very long between appointments and they seemed to understand and make my appointments a little closer together.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited for you! Hang in there!!
16 weeks, wow, that's great. I agree; it's really hard waiting so long between appointments. (One tiny upside to being sick as a dog from 6-22 weeks was the reassurance it provided my husband and me that all was well with the babies.)
ReplyDeleteThinking of you.
I just posted about hating to wait too. Dr. wants to wait on my FET due to Christmas. Boo!
ReplyDeleteGlad that you have such a great thing to be waiting for, though! Keep up posted!
Joey
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Yay for 16 weeks!! I have no idea how long it will take for me to feel like this is real. I truly have no ability to believe that there will be a baby (make that two!) at the end of this. I'm living for scans and we're still WAY early. I don't know how I'll make it through more than two weeks between scans.
ReplyDeleteThinking of you! I like the attitude of just be with it right now.
Oh, and thank you!!! :)
I think it was sometime during labor when I finally realized this was all real. Hang in there.
ReplyDeletei totally get the not feeling it's real -- and i didn't feel comfortable enough to start telling all our friends until 16 weeks...but i do think that for me, after it was "out there" and nothing bad happened, that it allowed me to relax somewhat. and after the anatomy scan, then things really hit home that it might actually happen. and shopping for bubs really helped too.
ReplyDeletei think you're right about not getting the doppler -- that may just send you bonkers checking every five minutes..and i'm sure that with that would come a whole bunch of worries, "does the hb sound ok? was it that fast/slow yesterday/five minutes ago"...etc!
feeling comfortable enough to show us a picture of your growing belly? i bet you look super cute!
The wait between appointments is KILLER. Hopefully the anxiety between appointments will ease up after the anatomy scan and all goes well there. I don't really know when it starts feeling real. And I'm 23w and still can't find jack with my home doppler, so I support the no-doppler decision :)
ReplyDeleteThe waiting is so painful! Glad to hear all is going well so far. xx
ReplyDeleteOmg, 4 weeks is just unacceptable! I cheated and got ultrasounds weekly practically for the first trimester, bc I kept pretending thwt I was "trying out" new and old gyno's :o) luckily, I have great insurance otw my husband would have killed me. When the Waite btwn appts got much much longer later in pregnancy, I became obsessed with criminal minds (tv show) and watched the whole series in a matter of a month. It kept my mind off pregnancy completely. So maybe you need a new obsession, whether it be a new tv series or hobby? Or, you can do what I did and pretend to shop docs and get an extra ultrasound or two in!
ReplyDeleteTime can't go by fast enough!!! Good on you for not getting a doppler. We used ours daily until it broke! Sure, it gave some peace of mind but it also caused anxiety a few times.
ReplyDeleteYay! Thanks for the shout out. I cant believe how fast that went already for you 16 weeks! Awesome!!!! When are you going to "come out" ?
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