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t s sleep my only pregnancy related symptom complaint i ve been getting leg crams nonstop whether i sleep on my left or right side and i get up about 5 times night to stretch and flex my toes also i finally gained some weight i am now 7lbs above my base weight and it s a 4 lbs gain in 4 weeks so i feel a bit better i think all of my actual weight will just come on in the end i do have this huge belly and i am really enjoying it people say i look skinnier than i ve looked in a long time just with this basketball in the middle of me one of my friends actually said to me last night that i am a cute pregnant person which is very sweet and makes me feel good i m big enough now to be obviously pregnant looking and last week someone looked me up and down on the subway and offered me their seat and this is with my heavy winter coat on b c it s damn freezing in ny b took pictures of my belly this week and we sent them to my parents they were laughing hysterically they live in florida and aren t getting the joy of seeing me pregnant in person so this picture was their first taste of their daughter looking obviously pregnant it was very cute they called me immediately after receiving the picture to laugh and say how happy this makes them i m hoping they are able to come to visit in april for passover and they can rub the buddha belly in person i have to say if i make it through this pregnancy process with a healthy baby in tow i can honestly say i m enjoying being pregnant my ob also said that at this point she considers me a pretty low risk pregnancy which i guess is good truthfully i would still rather be high risk b c i feel like they would be watching me more carefully but she said at this point my having ashermans is a non factor in my pregnancy assuming i don t have placenta issues i have my big anatomy scan next week so i am looking forward to that i know they will re check my cervix and hopefully check the placenta and try to rule out placenta accreta although it might be too soon for that in some respects i can t believe how quickly time is flying by but then every day also seems incredibly long i m also having all these mixed emotions knowing that if our first pregnancy had worked out id be celebrating my kid s first birthday this weekend as much as i try to remove this thought from my head it s hard because i get these constant reminders in the mail about ways to decorate for the first birthday party stages of food my baby should be on etc word to the wise don t sign up for babycenter or if you do don t give then your mailing address i have tried to throw these things away without evening opening the envelope i would have thought being pregnant would make all of these sad emotions go away but really they still linger everyone says by 20 weeks you should feel comfortable and secure in the pregnancy and i m just not there yet i ve heard one too many horror stories and know of people who have had late term losses i m too antsy to shop for anything baby related or look into pediatricians or really commit to anything because i don t want to jinx this but then i stat to worry that this will make me a poor unprepared parent i guess i m having a hard time balancing my superstitious side with my rational sense of what i need to do in advance while i have the time and energy someone recently asked me if i ve had any cravings while pregnant the easy answer is no i haven t had any cravings at all the only thing i crave is security and a positive outlook and that seems well beyond my reach i hope by the third trimester the fears will subside and i ll feel more confident that things will work out for us i really hope this feeling kicks in soon pun intended posted by ella 12 21 pm 9 comments wednesday january 17 2007 17 weeks and counting happy belated new year everyone i have been so remiss about posting lately and just can t get around to composing my thoughts i ve had so much on my mind but every time i sit down to type i get distracted with work stuff at work and home stuff at home ah excuses excuses i m 17 weeks as of yesterday and still pregnant i had my last u s at the high risk group three weeks ago it went well the u s tech was kinda new and wasn t sure what she was really measuring she said she was told to do an anatomy and cervical length measurement but it was too early for an anatomy and she didn t know how to do the cervical measurement she did do regular measurements of the baby and everything was on track she was also kinda snotty i was so nervous and kept giggling that s my defensive mechanism to laugh or cry and she was yelling at me to lie still and i tried to keep my self calm by cracking jokes and commenting on how amazing today s technology is i said i wondered how a hundred years ago anyone was ever even born healthy without u s technology and all this high tech equipment and she was like well women weren t as neurotic then as they are today i thought that was kind of offensive and i told her after everything i ve been through and having developed asherman s i deserve to be a little neurotic and extra cautious don t i know what her response was what s asherman s i ve never heard of that of course she hadn t so i had to give her the cliff note version and educate yet another medical professional finally she called in the senior u s tech who we love from my nuchal and she was much better she walks in takes one look at the monitor and turns to us and says within 3 seconds you guys wanna know what you re having we said no and she was giggling and saying that she knows she can tell right away so we now are convinced we are having a boy b c she reacted so quickly to the u s and we re positive she saw a penis she must have all along i had been feeling girl vibes and i did an old wives tale test online and it came up 70 girl but now i m thinking boy plus the profile of the baby looked almost exactly like b the u s scan definitely has his little pig nose and his mouth and chin and just looks very male to us so we re thinking boy but there is that element of surprise still left there anyway the good u s tech did a cervical length and said everything looks fine for now and they ll re check it in 3 weeks which is this friday she said the measurement was about 4cm and they like to see it over 3 so i m ok for now the heart rate dropped a little to 140 it was 150 last time we went truthfully i think we both really wanted a girl initially b wants a girl to be daddy s little girl and adore him like i do my dad of course we don t care either way as long as it s a healthy baby but i m nervous to have a boy for very stupid reasons one is religious b c i have all these mixed feelings about a bris traditional jewish circumcision and hate that in my jewish hertiage and culture you have to watch your boy go through his first surgery in front of a gazillion guests who toast you with bagels and whitefish salad i m just not into that i m fine with a circumcision but prefer it be done in a hospital with a rabbi there to say a blessing i don t want to make spectacle of the event and i know that my wishes aren t go to go over well with family so i don t want to deal with that stress also my mil is a bit of a know it all and i don t want to hear it from her how she raised 2 boys and knows all and i feel like with a girl i can exercise some semblance of control and remind her that it s my baby and she knows nothing about rearing girl babies these are all such stupid superficial things but that s why i was kind of hoping for a girl in the back of my head of course i m thrilled either way and we ll figure out the boy stuff but it s just extra mental stress i don t need also think i m carrying like a boy carrying high no morning sickness looking good during pregnancy age at conception etc so we ll see b thinks i d love having a boy a little mama s boy to adore me more than anyone in this world spoken like a true mama s boy himself and that might be true so i m really comfortable either way and really just want a healthy baby regardless of gender i know my boy issues are dumb and i ll get over them and ultimately i know the to bris or not to bris conversation will be one that i determine but i just don t want the extra stress of disappointing my in laws my parents are fine with whatever decision b and i make as long as the baby is snipped somewhere somehow ugh so many decisions for someone who isn t even religious other than that i continue to feel really well i m still symptom less with the exception of a growing belly i have gained 2 8 lbs since i found out i was pregnant but my belly has definitely popped my ob said everything looks as is should and i should feel more confident when i start to feel some movement in there the only hitch is that she also told me i had an anterior placenta which she explained as totally normal and common and not a big deal in fact she had that with both of her pregnancies it just means that because my placenta faces the front closer to my belly i likely won t feel movement until much further along perhaps at 24 weeks all i want is to feel some activity and that is something i am going to have to wait for so i m trying to stay positive and enjoy this work has been a really good distraction as is spending time with b and friends and doing the things we normally love doing watching movies and tv going out to eat cooking going to museums reading etc one thing that pregnancy after infertility teaches you or at least me is to be focused on other things besides baby baby baby i feel like my friends who had it easy are just consumed by their upcoming babies all they can talk about is nursery decorations and their pregnancies and it s like their brains have dissolved into nothing more than baby mush i m actually enjoying my ability to focus on other things work current events arts and my friends in fact i got an e mail from a college friend who is pregnant with her first due in 3 months and i think she mentioned something baby related 5 times in a 6 sentence e mail i on the other hand didn t even tell her i m pregnant i know i don t get any brownie points for that but i feel like i want to retain who i am as person first mommy second i m enjoying shopping for non baby related items right now i can have a conversation about movies that are playing books i m reading not just baby books and i feel like an adult who doesn t just talk strollers and car seats and public schools except to debate my city zoning laws and what they ve done to gentrify the schools in my neighborhood after all our country is fighting foreign wars and all my easily pregnant friends can talk about are what color to decorate in to provide a more relaxing environment and how all they have energy for in terms of household chores is laundry i m sure if i have this baby my brain will slightly turn to mush too and i too will become focused on what s best for my baby and how to nurture and educate to the best of my abilities but until that time i m going to enjoy myself the way i m used to and continue to spend my weekends catching up on movies instead of going from baby store to baby store to test out strollers there s a time and place for everything posted by ella 2 32 pm 7 comments friday december 22 2006 breathing a bit easier my 13 weeks appoint went well everything looks good there s a baby swimming around in there with what appears on screen to be a nice heartbeat i m ecstatic i cannot believe i ve made it this far the ob said everything looked normal and i started balling i think she wasn t expecting someone to cry over good news but that s just the way i am she turned to b and said is she going to cry until i actually hand her this baby and b said yeah pretty much but that s ok i m a crier that s how i deal with things my next appointment is next friday to check cervical length and perhaps do an early anatomy i m starting to think maybe this is for real which is very exciting posted by ella 8 59 am 5 comments wednesday december 20 2006 13 weeks my apologies to all that i haven t posted in ages it s been a busy few weeks i ve been swamped at work always a good excuse mostly i have been too nervous to post any information for fear that the second i say it out loud or in writing this pregnancy will be taken away from me also i know i have a few real friends who ve been reading along and sharing in my ups and downs and i found out that apparently more real friends than i thought have been reading my blog so i needed to take time off because i wasn t officially ready to share the news plus i wanted to be the one to sort of announce this myself in my own way when i was good and ready i ve officially hit 13 weeks as of yesterday of course that only means i m 13 weeks in terms of counting from my lmp i haven t been to the ob for a check up since 11w3d but i go back tomorrow so in my mind i can t count myself 13 weeks until someone or something ultrasound confirms that please please let everything be ok in there my last appointment was at 11w3d and was my nuchal translucency all went well they didn t give me the specific results the you have 1 out of x chances results but the ultrasound dr said things looked good to her so far the little beaner was swimming around in there and at one point his her hand was above the head as if he she were waving hi to us it was pretty cute my ob s office said the results were normal so i m guessing this means no need for further testing via cvs or amnio i m sure she ll go over the results with me in more detail tomorrow also i realized i had been counting from 2 weeks post iui but not from the first date of my lmp so they changed my records and moved up my due date by 2 days to june 24 it makes no difference except i was measuring exactly 11w 5d at my nuchal which is where i should be if you count from my period and not my iui not that 2 days matter much in the grand scheme it just makes no sense to me to measure from the date of my lmp if i know exactly when i ovulated and had my iui and a week s worth of amazing sex the mfm group who did my nuchal said i can go back at 14 weeks to them for an initial anatomy and that they d follow up at 17 and 20 weeks to check placenta and cervical measurement the ultrasound dr said my placenta did lie low a little on the ultrasound but there s plenty of time for it to move so i shouldn t worry she also disagreed with my ob and she thinks all of my procedures do put me at higher risk for incompetent cervix but that s why she wants to monitor it in conjunction with my ob and do cervical measurements more frequently i still feel good physically and i guess i just got lucky with my lack of symptoms except for lower back pain on one side which i guess could be sciatica i feel good i ve never had sciatica before but my self diagnosis tell me that s what this is i m definitely showing i had a big belly to begin with but now the upper portion of my belly has popped hopefully that s a good...