Updates

Almost a month after my last post the contractor never showed up to finish up those few little things. They got a letter from our lawyer. They're pissed but they surely brought this on themselves. Out of 89 business days since the start of the project, only 29 days of work were actually done, and half of those days, a maximum of 3 hours were worked per day.

In case you didn't hear me shout it from the top of a building, I am finally pregnant. I didn't write much about this IVF round...not sure why exactly. But it went very smoothly...nothing like last time. We transferred two excellent quality embryos which was followed up by 4 days of bed rest. That was a saturday. The following Thursday my acupuncturist told me I was pregnant (they can tell these things right away, chinese medicine is crazy). The following Monday I took a chance and took a home pregnancy test and it was positive. I took another one on wednesday and it also was positive. Thursday I went in for my official blood test and it confirmed my home test. The nurse said that they look for an hcg level of 50-100. Mine was over 500. Two days later is was 1300. I don't go back again until Saturday where I hope to find the number at least quadrupled by then. The following saturday I have an ultrasound where they can see the heartbeat and will be able to see if it is one or two.

So far feeling great although I'm only just shy of 5 weeks pregnant. Just pretty crampy and i get shakey if I don't eat enough.

This was our very first baby gift from our friends Jenna and Tim.