Ok, so I’m not dealing well with all this spotting. Not at all. Instead of living week to week for ultrasounds, or even hanging in there til my first trimester is over (hah!) I’m living pretty much bathroom-trip to bathroom-trip, based on the color of the toilet paper.  And thanks to the overactive bladder, that’s [...]

Still here.  Still spotting, though no cramping at all since last weekend, so I’m trying to take my doctor’s advice and not worry. Which isn’t really working out all that well for me.  As you might have guessed. I am a worrier by nature and by inclination, and blood during early pregnancy just aint right. [...]

My zen may have gotten smothered by the octopus yesterday.  (And thank you for that rather creepy little visual, Brenda!  I laughed, and then winced, and then sort of let my mind scuttle away from it.  Rather like an octopus moving to another, fishier tank, perhaps.) But seriously, I’m not quite sure why, but I [...]

There’s not much going on in Sprogblogger-land.  I have my first OB appointment at my clinic next Wednesday, right before we leave town for the great (and somewhat foolhardy) Montreal Road Trip.  We should learn whether it’s simply one kickass Sprog or two at that time, but it’ll probably be too early for a heartbeat. [...]

Today I’m at 14dp3dt, which makes it approximately 17dpo.  So, yes, yesterday’s 16dpo beta numbers are high, but not outrageously high.  My last pregnancy, I was at 7oo-something at 17dpo with a singleton.  So that’s what I’m pinning my hopes on – that this is just one seriously female little girl in there, who’s pumping [...]

Yesterday was the most fun I’ve had in quite a long time.  Today is proving to be even more fun.  The line is darker on this morning’s test.  I’m still pregnant.  I could get used to this. I spent yesterday in a blur: poring over cloth diapering vs. disposable online debates, grinning like a fool, [...]

Internets, I feelz pregnant. Not really, I mean, I don’t feel as crampy as I’d like to, and my boobs don’t yet have the shiny, “ouch, don’t look at me!” level of tenderness I’ve come to associate with being sprogged-up.  But I’m thirsty like Death Valley in summertime thirsty.  I’m thirsty like this while I’m [...]

Only symptoms really jumping to the forefront are PIO symptoms – crazy dreams, The Hunger, the Thirst, (and therefore, The Peeing).  But nothing really screams “Woohoo! Pregnant!” to me. And that sucks. Early days, I know, but I’m rather, um, impatient anyway, and have had my hopes up so very high for such a long [...]

So, being the compulsive symptom-watcher that I am, every twinge that’s hitting south of, oh, say, my shoulders has me convinced that this is it!  implantation cramping!  yes! Ahem.  And then I snap back to reality and blink really hard and start obsessing about my sniffly nose.  Sniffles = pregnancy, right?  (And neveryoumind that I’ve [...]

I can’t believe it.  Except I can, really, because this one feels different and has from the beginning.  We’ve never gotten this far before.  Not with a heartbeat.   And me – I’m all over the damned place.  Fluctuating between giddy and complacent.  I dreamed about a little boy, about ten years old.  Blond and [...]