Travel Notes

From our initial consultation on March 1st, I count 19 round trips to the fertility clinic.  Per Google Maps, the clinic is 75.6mi from home; that's a total of ~2870mi for this cycle.  Put another way, at 1.5hr each way, it's 57hr in the car.

Graduation Day

We had the last of our early ultrasounds yesterday.  First, the picture.

My usual annotated copy.

Baby is head-down and facing to your left.  From head to rump, baby measures 3.03cm.  That's 1.19in, and corresponds to an age of 9 weeks, 6 days.  As of yesterday, baby's actual age was 9 weeks, 5 days (this moment in hyper-precision brought to you by in vitro fertilization!), so we're right on schedule.  Live, you can see baby's heart beating and his/her arms and legs moving.  The heartbeat, at 175 bpm, is right where it ought to be.  The arm and leg movement has triggered a running gag around my house about baby waving to us, and then kicking in a "OK, I said hello, now get out of here" motion.

With all these right-on-schedule measurements, our IVF doc has decided to turn Sarah over to her regular OB. So we're all done with the fertility clinic for this go-round.  We don't expect to return to the clinic until the biannual "baby party" at Mother's Day next year.