Sarah started feeling the first movement about three weeks ago, during Week 15. (This writing is at the end of week Week 18.) Since then the movement has gotten more frequent and more noticeable. Now Sarah can feel movement several times a day. Frankly she enjoys the Hell out of it.
I think I felt the baby move very early on, in Week 16 or so. I had my hand on Sarah's stomach and felt a soft but definite rolling --- sort of like baby had been under my hand and then rolled out from under it. Since then, I haven't been able to feel anything. Occasionally Sarah will say "come her, the baby is kicking" and I'll run over and put my hands on her belly, but then baby always immediately stops kicking. Oh, well; it will come in time.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Some Limited Excitement
The sonogram on 17 August really wasn't supposed to happen. As previously discussed, we 'graduated' from the fertility doctor on Monday, August ninth. Thereafter we immediately made an appointment with Sarah's regular OB here in Oxford. That appointment was on August seventeenth.
This appointment was meant to be a meeting. But halfway through the meeting, the doc was called away to do a delivery. So, he had his tech do an ultrasound to keep us amused while he was gone. There was nothing terribly informative about the resulting pictures, but it was nice to see the baby, as it always is.
Five days later, on Sunday the 22nd, Sarah had some bleeding. There wasn't a terribly huge amount, and she didn't have any cramping or pain with it. Nevertheless, Sarah was very scared and called the doc. He told her not to stress out about it, to take it easy the rest of the day and come in first thing Monday morning.
By then, the bleeding had stopped and we were starting to settle down. But, they did an ultrasound to peek in on baby anyway. As expected, all was in order.
This appointment was meant to be a meeting. But halfway through the meeting, the doc was called away to do a delivery. So, he had his tech do an ultrasound to keep us amused while he was gone. There was nothing terribly informative about the resulting pictures, but it was nice to see the baby, as it always is.
Five days later, on Sunday the 22nd, Sarah had some bleeding. There wasn't a terribly huge amount, and she didn't have any cramping or pain with it. Nevertheless, Sarah was very scared and called the doc. He told her not to stress out about it, to take it easy the rest of the day and come in first thing Monday morning.
By then, the bleeding had stopped and we were starting to settle down. But, they did an ultrasound to peek in on baby anyway. As expected, all was in order.
Catching Up
Apologies are in order. I started a new job last month, and I've been extremely busy. Since the last posting, we've had three sonograms. In the last (no use trying to build suspense when I've already colored the blog pink) we found out: baby is a girl. Now, in order, pictures from each sonogram, and some other stuff.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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.
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.
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