Baby Pictures

A few photos of the babies from Thursday's ultrasound.

Baby A is the baby on my right side.

And Baby B is on my left with it's little hand by it's mouth.

I thought these photos were cute:

Baby B's Hand

Baby A's little foot. Isn't that adorable?!

And what they look like from the outside.

Thanksgiving in San Francisco

Strawberries

I think it's funny that every week my pregnancy book refers to the size of the embryos in terms of food. At six weeks they were the size of a grain of rice, at seven weeks it was raisins. Eight weeks was olives (I liked calling them "my little olives"). Craig just calls them "the boys".

Can you tell that one of them is upside down?

It's TWINS!

The babies at 6 weeks!

Does this seem excessive?

All the tests I took before my blood test.

I'm pregnant!

It's official...I'm pregnant! I went in for my blood test this morning. I got up at 7am, drove almost for about an hour in rush hour traffic just so I could get to the clinic early. I wanted to be sure I got the results that day. I got the call from our nurse just as I was leaving to go to work. The conversation went something like this:

Suzie: We got your blood test results and your HCG came back at 777.
Me: Holy Moly!!!
Suzie: Yeah, how many did we put in there?

An average beta number is somewhere around 100-300.

We had a feeling the blood test would be positive because I took a home pregnancy test seven days earlier.

The one that started it all. Can you see the line?

I decided to test a week after my transfer which is really early. People usually test 2 weeks after their transfer. The test came up negative. Of course I started crying, threw the test in the trash and then got in the shower to get ready for work. About an hour later I pulled the test out of the trash to take another look (not unusual) and I saw a very, very, very faint line. I immediately decided it was an evaporation line or false positive because so much time had passed. I spent the rest of the day at work upset and feeling sick to my stomach. One might say I was nauseous, hmmm. Craig could tell I was upset about something but didn't know what. He offered to bring me dinner to cheer me up and I ended up telling him all about the "false positive".

The next morning I took two more tests and two lines showed up right away on both of them. Faint but definitely positive. I said "Oh my God" a few times, paced around the apartment with the pregnancy test in my hand, cried some and took pictures. Then I ran out to get a digital test. One that actually says "pregnant" or "not pregnant" and it came up "pregnant"! I called out sick at work and immediately started thinking about how I would tell Craig. I decided to send him an email with a picture of the test with the two lines because it wouldn't be as obvious and the detective in him would go for the challenge of figuring it out. I wrote in the subject "Do you know what this is?". I waited a few minutes then sent the picture with the test that actually says "pregnant" and wrote "How about this?". Then I waited for his call. The first two tests.

The Pharmacy Is Open

These are some of the drugs I have to take for this FET (frozen embryo transfer) cycle. Even though it looks like a lot, it's only half of what I had to take for my regular IVF cycle. It's a regular pharmacy at the Casa de Goldberg!

Pinnacles Hiking

Craig and I decided to go away for the weekend to Pinnacles National Monument. The park is just outside of Soledad, which is a three hour drive south of San Francisco. I drove while Craig had coffee and read the newspaper! The rock formations are actually the remains of an ancient volcano. Even though it was hot (almost 90 degrees) it was a lot of fun. The best part was the caves.

Getting Ready

The entrance to the park

Going into the caves

Looks like good climbing