2nd trimester here i come!

tomorrow i am officially in the 2nd trimester and im very excited :) ive had a bunch of headaches latley and im still not loving food but its getting better. apparently i am showing, strangers can tell Im pregnant at this point. i dont know how i feel about that lol. i am going to put pictures up soon to show belly growth.
i had a bit of a gut before hand, but its definatly round now.
we find out the sex on march 13th. i feel like its so far away!!!!
i dont know if i have a "mothers instinct" as to what it is yet. ive had people say they think its both..so who knows lol.
all i know is i love my husband and our baby and cant wait to meet it :)

week 13

sunny side up

i graduated from the RE today :)
got to get a good view at Baby and saw hands, feet, alien face, and loooon legs. the tech got an awesome shot of the baby looking directly under it..spread eagle!! oh boy we have our hands full haha. its too early to tell the sex. hopefully within the next month and a half we can tell. it was a good visit overall. now we go to the OB on weds wooo! very exciting :)

food

i am having such a hard time with food latley. i feel hungry..yet when i go to eat, i gag. i cant bring myself to eat anything and i dont know why this is. it is so frustrating..and causing a few fights between dan and i as well :( he gets mad when i waste the food we buy.
i cant wait for this to go away..

cravings

all i want is french dressing, hot fudge, and soda from a soda fountain. being pg is so strange...the random things we crave lol. i think ive convinced dan that we should go to friendlys when he gets home from work :)

Pregnancy

Well my father suggested that i keep a diary of my pregnancy. Since i have terrible handwritting and this is the electronic age, i figured a blog is the next best thing.
I started fertility treatment in the summer of 2008. We tried 2 cycles of clomid that did nothing. Next we were trying a cycle w/ injections. Those who know me know that i dont do needles well. Theres something about wanting a child that got me to face my fear, and Dan gave me my injections every night. They sucked, but i knew the end result would be worth it. So i went to the RE and they said i overstimulated, i have 28 mature follicles. The only way we could save that cycle was to do IVF and skip right over IUI. Basically for those that dont know, IVF (in vetro fertilization) is where they removed my mature eggs/follicles and took Dans sperm and fertilized them all. In our case, they did ICSI which is where they take one sperm and insert it into one egg, as opposed to just putting the sperm in the dish and letting them swim. They wound up fertilizing 19 out of the 28 and they put two back in and froze the other 17.
And it worked.
Our first IVF was successful and 10 days after my egg retreival, i tested at home after work and i got the faintest line...but it was there! i was actually pregnant :) i called dan cause lord knows i couldnt just wait to surprise him when he got home. i kept peeing on those sticks every day until that saturday when i did a Beta blood test at my RE and they confirmed i was pregnant.
Now, i am 10 weeks and 4 days pregnant. My due date as far as we can tell is July 31, 2009. I have one last ultrasound at the RE next tuesday and then i will officially graduate to the OBGYN. I have my first appointment with them on Jan 14th.
So far here is how i have been feeling: since week 5 i have off and on nausea. No vomitting thank god, but food has not really been my friend. I havent gained any weight yet which is a plus for me i think. Id like to try and gain only the needed weight since PCOS makes it hard to loose weight. Whatever keeps baby healthy is good for me. Ive been EXHAUSTED. I never expected it to be like this. I get home from work and just want to lay in bed all night. I am getting winded alot latley. I also have been VERY hormonal and cranky the past few weeks. I always feel so bad for snapping when i do but i feel like a monster is controlling my emotions and i cant stop mean things from coming out of my mouth! Dan has been awesome. Hes taken up all the slack and cleans 99% of the time. I did do the dishes tonight to surprise him for when he comes home lol. I have also been crying alot at tv shows. Im just super emotional, kinda like a roller coaster right now. I have been wearing the bella band with my pants since week 6 or 7 because of the bloat. Actually, i was really bloated during the IVF process because of everything that was going on in there..i dont think it ever really went away. I have rounded out alot in my belly. Dan said to me last night that i was "showing". i did look like i was about 15-16 weeks lol. Then this morning it was gone. Welcome to baby bloat! I figure itll be like this for a few more weeks. I am looking forward to a real baby bump :). I havent told co-workers yet except for my friends and my boss. I figure i will just let people know when they start asking me. As for the rest of my friends who dont already know, ill plan on making it public next week after i see the baby again. i absolutly LOVE seeing it on the ultrasounds. It makes me happy. The HB was 177 bpm last week. If you go by old wives tales, then that is a girl. But who knows! I have been craving soda!!!! I never drink soda lol. At least its not meat i guess. I have also been craving french salad dressing from kraft. im very specific with my cravings. Bagels dont seem to do it for me lately. I need to find a new breakfast..
So i think thats everything in a nutshell up to now. I am loving every minute of being pregnant despite the sick feeling and the exhaustion. It will all be worth it when i see my babys smiling face in 29 1/2 more weeks :)