Weaning and whining

Ten weeks today!! Two more weeks to close the first trimester. Very excited. Have been going for blood tests once a week to monitor the placenta's pace of making hormones so I can get off the artificial ones. I've gone from an injection and three suppositories for progesterone, to only the injection! YEY! And went from 4 patches and one pill for estrogen, to only three patches! I can see I have a two time Iron Man in there.....very determined!

I feel great. Had nausea for a bit there but it's gone. I felt generally aweful every night and that went away the minute we started going on daily walks. My need to eat constantly has settled down, and with some discipline, so has the scale. Thank goodness. I have to laugh out loud when I read books that say that most women don't gain any weight in the first trimester. Hilarious. If you're throwing up every day, maybe.

Telling people has been really wonderful. I watch my friends, collegues and well known clients cry and hug me and jump up and down. I have not tired of that at all.
What I have tired of very quickly is the folks that don't get what the embryo genetic testing in Denver provided us with. Namely, peace of mind especially in the first trimester. And no matter how much I explain it, they are still holding their breath for the first three months, and one person even went as far as saying "don't get too excited". Heartbreaking really. We know the risks...if we're excited, especially after what we've been through, who are they to suggest otherwise. Not sure how to let that go.

Saw the baby again the other day on a practically hand held ultrasound at my OBGYN's. So wonderful and so surreal. I still can't get my head around a little one growing in there, especially with no belly yet, so seeing is definitely believing! it had little arms and legs and was boogying away. Like mommy....the dancer.

Heartbeat # 2

OMG! OMG! we could actually make out the baby this time on the screen! It was SOOOO sweet! And a tiny little umbilical cord! We just melted! Baby is measuring 2cm (that's almost an inch for you US folk) and heart rate of 176 which is normal! It was so cute!

I'm waiting for instructions from Colorado about changes in hormones. Maybe one less suppository? AND.....you know how they say kids give you gray hair? Pulled two out of my scalp today....my first ones. 40, pregnant, growing gray, and lovin it.