17dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Good morning!  Only 1 more wake-up until my final beta!   I just want that beta over and done with (and get a good number - hoping for 5,550+).    I think I'll stop testing after tomorrow's beta as long as it's a decent number.

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - Peed twice but that's only because I kept waking up and was like "mighgt as well pee" - not that I actually had to pee.  lol

Morning - Tongue scraper blood.  Bleeder after the PIO injection.

Mid-day - Nothing.

Afternoon - Cramps after lunch.

Evening - Tiny bit tired.   Ute pulls here and there.  Freezing.  Tongue scraper blood.

Love this one.  This sure has been a looooooong road.  Our TTC journey started EIGHT years ago.  2008.  I really hope we can get to our "destination" this year and finally have the family we always dreamed of!

HPTs:

Loving this view... Clearblue Digital weeks estimator at 3+, dark FRER, and dark wondfos!!!   Beautiful site!!   Praise God!!

A tiny peak into my madness - the madness of an 8 year infertility war veteran:

Wondfo progression, new FRER progression, clearblue digital progression, FRRR progression, Top Care hpt progression

13dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Eager for tomorrow's 3rd beta!!

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - peed 3 times, vivid dreams

Morning - None

Mid-day - Yellow cm.

Afternoon - None

Evening - The smell of Mike's dinner (pork and broccoli) was grossing me out.  Tongue scraper blood.  Slightly veiny.

<3 <3 <3 

HPTS:

Ugh, last night's FRER was DEFINITELY lighter than the night before.  :(

See, clearly lighter...  :(

FRRR (first response rapid result) was at least darker than the one from 2 nights ago:

Bottom 3 wondfo all dipped in the same pee.  2 of which are darker than the 3 from the previous night.

12dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Being daring and switching blog titles from days post transfer to weeks pregnant.   I know things could still happen, but TODAY I am pregnant.  So I am going to enjoy the moment!!!

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - peed once - cramps after.

Morning - Tongue scraper blood.

Mid-day - Tired

Afternoon - Uterine tweaks

Evening - More tweaks during dinner.  Slightly nauseous.  Tired.  Tongue scraper blood.

HPTS:

12dp6dt new curved frer (almost the same darkness as the control line):

Comparing 11dpt and 12dpt new curved frer:

Did 3 wondfos (all three bottom ones dipped in the same pee):

11dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

I just had my second beta drawn (twice actually).    I probably won't hear until late this afternoon the results from the one lab, and I won't hear until at least tomorrow morning the results from the other lab (this is the lab I used for beta 1 - I duplicated draws today so I can get an accurate doubling since betas differ from lab to lab).  

So nervous today.   No symptoms today.   Wish I was nauseous or something!

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - peed once - no cramps after.

Morning - Tongue scraper blood.   Yellow cm.

Mid-day - Nothing much.  Tiny tan spot.

Afternoon - Slightly thirsty.   Super duper bloated around 4.

Evening - Tired after dinner.  Veiny.  Tongue scraper blood.

HPTS:

Wondfos

Ignore the one peeking at the very top (yesterday's dried test), but the top one is another curved FRER and the bottom one is a FRRR (first response rapid result).  Just wanted to see if I could match the control line on SOMETHING given my beta today of 365!  

Curved FRERs - 9dpt, 10dpt, and 11dpt all "wet" under 60 minutes

10dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Soooo, just got my beta #1 results!  See other post :) ....

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - peed once - mild cramps when I got back in bed.

Morning - Tongue scraper blood.  Cramps when I put on too tight of pants. 

Mid-day - A few cramps and some light brown spotting.   Feel bloated after lunch.

Afternoon - Tiny bit thirsty.

Evening - Super tired after dinner.  Veiny chest/arms, tongue scraper blood.

My fear of this failing will not make me a prisoner!!!

10dp6dt HPTs:

Wondfo was a champ tonight!

New curved FRER is still slow to darken but looking good:

Under 60 minute comparison of 8dpt, 9dpt, and 10dpt curved FRERs

Curved FRER-a-thon

9dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - a pretty vivid dream, peed once.

Morning - Couple ute tweaks.

Mid-day - Weird smelling pee.  A few ute tweaks maaaaaaybe?   Bloated after lunch - pants feel tight (even though I'm at an all time low for the year).

Afternoon - A little tired after lunch.  Little bit of light brown spotting.

Evening - A little tired after dinner.  Little bit of light brown spotting.  Maaaaaybe a boob tweak while laying on the couch?  Tongue scraper blood. 

I need to keep remembering this and push out the fear!!

So nervous to test tonight, I don't know why.  Maybe because the symptoms (the tweaking and cramping and pulling) has vastly dissipated.  Maybe the little babe is all snuggled in now?   This makes me happy though.  Victor's cycle at 9 days post transfer - hardly a single symptom that day specifically too!  

Finally caved at 8:30pm and tested....

I actually did two wondfos tonight because 

I thought the first looked way too light, 

the second one didn't let me down:

New curved FRER 9dp6dt:

FRER "wet" comparison - 7, 8 and 9 dpt:

My madness thus far:

8dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - nothing.  pee once.   no cramps.  no dreams.  nothing.  :(

Morning - Spotting seems to have stopped.  Tongue scraper blood (I use a tongue scraper and a consistent "symptom" is when I scrape when pregnant a little bit of blood is drawn).

Mid-day - Maybe a few ute tweaks.    

Afternoon - A few ute tweaks.  Somewhat bloated.

Evening - Cramps, bloat, tweaks during dinner.  Tongue scraper blood.  Tiny light brown spot.  

Hopefully tonight is the perfect time 

for the FRER line to finally get dark!!

HPTs from tonight:

Wondfos, thank you for not sucking like the curvy handle FRER:

curvy FRER 30 minutes in:

Curvy FRER wet comparison: 

Dried FRERS the next morning:

Dried wondfos the next morning:

7dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Called the Cleveland Clinic to tell them about the spotting and that Mike and I made the executive decision to up my progesterone from 1 cc to 2 cc (50mg to 100mg) a day.  I also told the nurse about the positive home tests and she let me move the official test day from 14dpt (Monday) to 11dpt (this Friday)!

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - nothing.  never even got up to pee.  no dreams.  nothing.  :(

Morning - Light brown spotting.  Cramp here or there.  Tongue scraper blood (I use a tongue scraper and a consistent "symptom" is when I scrape when pregnant a little bit of blood is drawn).  Thirsty.

Mid-day - Light brown spotting.  

Afternoon - Light brown spotting.

Evening - Light brown spotting.  Ute pinches here and there.  Cramps after eating.   Tongue scraper blood (I use a tongue scraper and a consistent "symptom" is when I scrape when pregnant a little bit of blood is drawn).

Tested this morning (6.5dpt on the FRER because it won't be 7dp until 2:30pm today and the test was taking around 6am - photographed around 7:30am):

This morning's test (at 90 minutes) compared to last-night's test (at 30 mins) and two-nights-ago's test (at 90 minutes) - aka all still a little wet:

This this this:

Took a few tests this evening (8:45pm).  I have to say, at first I thought it was over.  The new curved FRERS take so long to darken!  I even called out to Mike it was over.  Anyways, I think we are okay - at least today. 

Took a while to show up, but there's a line still:

Wondfos to date:

Took another digital:

Tests showing 5dpt, 6dpt, and 7dpt in the evening all within 90 minutes of taking them (aka all still a little wet):

Last several all dried:

6dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Haven't tested yet today.   I am going to try and hold out until this evening.  We'll see how well that goes!!   I did update yesterday's post with some more photos from last night's test.

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - slight cramps after peeing

Morning - Tiny ute tweak

Mid-day - Cramps/bloat at lunch, a bit of brown spotting after wiping, ute tweaks

Afternoon - heavy spotting / brown flow.  I spotted during Victor's cycle on this day but this is way more than that.   Freaking out.  Took a nap to pass time.   Still brown spotting after but not as bad.   Please just be insane implantation spotting from being on lovenox!!  Slight cramps too.   Oh, I made Mike give me another PIO injection to rule out AF trying to show.   Going to do 2cc a day starting tomorrow instead of 1cc.  They up it as you get older anyways.  I'll be advanced maternal age this year (35) so that's just what I'm doing (and no, taking extra isn't bad, but not having enough is VERY BAD).   

Evening - Still spotting a little.  No where near as badly as this afternoon.  Covered the whole panty liner before!  Acne between boobs.  Maybe veiny?   Maybe thirsty?  Tongue scraper blood (I use a tongue scraper and a consistent "symptom" is when I scrape when pregnant a little bit of blood is drawn).

HPTs.... still super light.  Was hoping for a nice darkening since yesterday but really, it looks the same as yesterday.   

This is actually yesterdays around 45 minutes and today's around 90 minutes.  I made this mash-up photo because today's is actually lighter than yesterday's DRIED test.  So I had to cheer myself up by comparing them when they were both still a little "new".

PLEASE GOD LET ONE OF THESE BABIES STICK!  PLEASE!!!

If they don't, I have this inspiring me!  (A dear friend shared this with me.)

6w5d - Ultrasound and Symptoms

God is good!  God is AWESOME!   Praise Jesus!  We have a heartbeat!   122bm!  Baby Schloss measured 6w3d, exactly 7 days more than 7 days ago!   Thank you everyone so so so so so much for your thoughts and prayers!     We are just so happy words can't explain.

Heartbeat visualized!  122 BPM!

Side view.

I think this is his/her spine.  Measuring 6w3d.

Another measurement:  6w3d.

Baby!!!

Symptoms:

Night:  Starving, had to eat a bar.   One vivid dream.

Morning:  TSB, veiny.  On my feet most of the morning, so a lot of pulling mid morning.

Afternoon:  Thirst.   A tiny bit woozy and bleh feeling after work.

Evening:  Cramps when laying.   Slight TSB (hard to get).

5w5d - Ultrasound!! & Beta #5!!!!!

The ultrasound is in 1 hour and 10 minutes (and beta #5)!  I think I might pass out from nerves.  I'll update this as soon as I can!!

UPDATE:  Sonogram went well.  Gestational sac = check!  Yolk sac = check!  HB = too early to see!!!  I am 5w5d as of this afternoon and the sac was measuring 5w3d.  I'm okay with that since FET's are slow to implant usually.   I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed to see that HB before I can celebrate.  I just need it.  After last May's miscarriage I am scarred.  I need to see that flicker!  Anyways, we don't know what's next.  Cleveland Clinic will still want to do their first u/s which I'm guessing they'll want to do 8/3.   I wonder if OBGYN Associates will want another one too?  Have I mentioned I'm not telling Cleveland Clinic that I'm already getting ultrasounds at my OB?  I want as many as possible so why tell them?  Anyways, without further adoo, here is our little bean (who you can't actually see, he/she isn't the spherical thing)....

Beta #5: 

Praise the Lord for He is GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!! Thank YOU everyone, from the bottom of my heart that is reading this. Your thoughts and prayers mean the world to us!

5867!!

All betas graphed together.... 

More data.....

Symptoms:

Middle of the night: vivid dreams (still not sex or baby related....come on sex dreams, you're all I had when I was pregnant with Victor), cramps after peeing
Morning:  TSB, uterine pulls when getting of ultrasound table
Afternoon:  Sliiiiiiiiiiiiightly nauseated, and kinda tired