It all started the day after Christmas..

You may have noticed I have neglected my blog over the last month or so. Well, let me do some explaining.

As the title states- it all started the day after Christmas. My mom came in town and we went to the grocery store to get a few things. For reasons I can't really explain, I was drawn down the pharmacy aisle like a moth to a flame.. Before I knew it I was tossing a Kroger brand pregnancy test into the cart. 

Once we got home and unloaded the groceries I wandered upstairs to take the test. Within 3 minutes I noticed a faint barely visible blue line show up. Having been in the TTC/infertility land long enough, I knew that dye run on blue tests was a very real possibility.

 So ran back out to get a pink dye first response test and a .88cent Walmart test. Came back home and took them all. First response- stark white. Not even a hint of a line. Irritated I walked away before even reading the wal mart test. When I went back to throw the tests away I noticed yet another extremely faint barely visible line on the wal mart. It struck me as odd but since it was after the 10 minute window of taking it the test was no longer valid so I threw it out thinking the Kroger test I took was just a faulty test.

A couple days past and in the craziness of our little ones birthday party and birthday I tried not to get caught up in the testing game. So 3 days after that first test, I found myself once again browsing around Kroger when I threw another test in the cart. Got home and took it, low and behold with in a minute or 2 a blue line appears. This one still not dark, but dark enough you didn't need to squint to see it.
So I immediately called my fertility specialist and within 5 minutes of taking that test I was on my way to my fertility doctor to have a beta/HCG level draw to confirm yes or no. Well since it was late in the day I wasn't going to get my results until the next day. If anyone here knows me well enough, that simply would not do. After spending a small fortune in pregnancy tests at target, I went home with a Gatorade and shiny new tests. 
Boom positive. Boom positive. Boom, YES+. Needless to say, the pregnancy was definitely confirmed! 
After calculating- I was only 10 days past ovulation when I took the first test the day after Christmas. The day I had my betas drawn I was 3W6D

The next day my REs office called with my results. Beta positive for pregnant with level is 74. While I was happy it was positive, I was nervous because that beta seemed awfully low compared to the beta numbers I had been seeing. I also had some light spotting that day. My head was telling me based off my experience, things may not turn out well. But with my mom in town and Adam beaming with excitement I tried to push those feelings aside until me next beta draw. 

For those unfamiliar with this process- your beta levels should double every 48 hours to show a viable pregnancy. My office drew mine a week after the initial draw. My numbers needed to come back at around 1200 at least to have properly doubled. Longest wait it seemed but the phone FINALLY rang! Results were in... Over 1500! Phew! That was a relief! 


I had finally started relaxing a little bit knowing my numbers doubled correctly over the course of a week. 
Though, that relief came crashing down at 6weeks5days when I woke up to spotting. Mortified I was having another miscarriage I spent all day hoping it would go away. It didn't. Just got worse. So around 9 that night I decided to go to the ER. Savannah was in bed already so Adam had to stay home with her while I braved ER alone. From 930pm- 530am I sat waiting for an answer.

 First good news came that was Betas were over 32,000. 2nd bit of good news came when they said my cervix was still closed. Oh that's good, closed is a good sign. The last bit of good news came when the doctor told me the baby measures exactly on track and they did see a heart beat! That was a huge sigh of relief, until the ER Doctor told me the heart rate of the baby was low. So they diagnosed me as threatened miscarriage and gave me a rhogam shot (I'm RH negative). 

2 days later I was seen by my RE for an ultrasound. The machine came on and there it was. A sweet little peanut with the most beautiful looking heart flutters. Perfectly on track and a heart rate according to my RE, that was perfect! 
There we had it, an official release from my fertility specialist to my regular OBGYN with our first pictures of our healthy right on track 7 week baby. I bawled! Tears of relief, tears of joy, tears of sadness for having to say bye to my amazing fertility doctor. The doctor that didn't just tell me to lose weight and that I was having bad luck. The doctor that believed me when I said something was wrong and she searched until she found it! She was a huge part of this journey and hugging her bye felt like one of my close friends moving away from me. It was hard to say bye but it was amazing to be moving on to the next step. 

The next week I was seen by my regular OBGYN where he did a full prenatal lab draw. Then set me loose for 2 weeks, in 2 weeks I would return for an ultrasound (I would be 10 weeks on the dot) and to go over the results from my labs. 

Those 2 weeks drug on... Felt like an eternity but it finally came. There we found ourselves back in an ultrasound room waiting for our hopes and dreams to be a reality or our worst fears confirmed. On comes the machine and once again there we saw, the perfectly healthy and developed 10 week baby with a heart rate of 186!! Cue more tears of relief. Knowing the chances of miscarriage at this point were so minuscule we felt so much better! 
Once the ultrasound confirmed a healthy baby it was time to meet with the doctor and go over my labs. Everything was great! Except I was vitamin D deficient so I now have to add those supplements to my prenatal. Other than that everything was perfect. 

So we went home feeling good and ready for Savannah to make her special announcement! 

So everyone- we will be welcoming our newest little love September 7th 2016! We are so incredible over the moon I really can't even put into words how we feel! 

This pregnancy was a long time coming and started out on a scary note so we have been a bit of a nervous wreck lol. Any prayers and positive vibes for a healthy full term pregnancy are greatly appreciated!! 


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