Suffice it to say that (almost) everything about yesterday sucked.
However.
The one teeny tiny silver lining was that because we had the CVS done – and Sprog is, btw, free from chromosomal defects like Downs or Trisomy 18, so that’s a good thing too – we also got to learn what flavor we’re getting about 6 [...]

Chorionic Villus Sampling prenatal test was today.  And – oh my – am I ever glad that’s over.
Basically, what happens is that the doctor snips out a teensy bit of the baby’s placenta and that – rather than baby-cells – gets tested for genetic problems.  The advantage is that it’s a test that can be [...]

Sprogs are fine.  Sprog A is plugging along, wiggling and measuring a few days ahead of schedule.  Sprog B is still holding still, still measuring a week behind Sprog A.
And I have an appointment for this morning with an endocrinologist.  Yesterday’s OB appointment was delayed for about an hour while the doctor ran – literally [...]

See?  I knew I shouldn’t have said anything about feeling calmer.  Zen be damned, I’m back to panic stations.
SuperStarOB called me at work to tell me that my follow-up bloodwork came back & that I definitely have a hyperactive thyroid.
So of course I went to Dr. Google and scared the shit out of myself.  Hey [...]

Eleven and a half weeks, and all seems well.  Spotting has (dare I say it aloud) ended.
Such.  A.  Relief.
Even though I’d stopped panicking each and every time I saw blood, it was still taking more out of me than I realized.  Because now that it’s gone (knock wood) it feels wonderful.  Like I’ve been handed [...]

It has been an uneventful couple of days, for which I am most grateful.  Nausea is definitely easing, which, as I creep up on 11 weeks, doesn’t freak me out too much.  Especially since heartburn/loss of appetite has totally taken its place.  Yesterday was a no-spotting day, and I feel like I should go release [...]

OK, sublingual B12 – even when (especialy when?) flavored with raspberry, ginger, etc. – is disgusting.  Gaggingly disgusting.  Bleccchhhhh!
Tums, on the other hand – I can now understand the love.  That stuff might be chalky, but it’s not too nasty, and it actually, um, works.  I am a convert.  Tums is my friend, and has [...]

For those who asked, in my fragile little mind these days, Sprog = Pregnancy.  Sprog = one of the two embryos I’m gestating.  Sprog = the baby I hope to hold in another 7 months.
To answer the unspoken question, yes I will still be going through with a reduction after my scheduled CVS in another [...]

All is well, save that it took two hours in the waiting room before I could get in for my 15 minute ultrasound.  And three sticks before they could draw blood.  And he tried to find heartbeats with a doppler first – nothing.  Then he did an external ultrasound – no movement.
Then I had a [...]

Although I can usually alleviate The Nausea by eating, eating is now followed by The Heartburn.  At least I think this is heartburn.  Never having felt anything like this before, it’s a bit hard to say for certain; but it’s centered around my, er, heart, and it feels like stomach acid is eating away at [...]