Angie is Pregnant!

This may not look like much to you, but it sure is beautiful to me. Angie had her first pregnancy ultrasound today and this is what we saw. One gestational sac, one yolk sac, one embryo, and one heartbeat. All measuring right on target. I think Trevor was initially a little sad that it is not twins. Me: 99% relieved and 1% disappointed. Truthfully, while we would love to have more kids, the logistics of having healthy full-term newborn twins plus Fletcher would probably have sent me over the edge (let alone all the potential complications of a multiple gestation).

Whoa, already talking about newborns, I am getting way ahead of myself. I, as much as anyone, know that there is a long road to go, with many obstacles, between a 7 week ultrasound and a full-term baby (EDD June 12, 2009, by the way).

After the scan (which was done in a full house with the RE, nurse, Angie, me, Trevor, Fletcher and Michael squeezed into the tiny ultrasound room) we discussed the next step, which is either another ultrasound at the clinic at 9 weeks, or, because everything looks really good, Angie could just be released to her regular OB right now. I am going to check Angie's insurance to see if having an additional scan now will limit the availability of future covered scans and if not, we'll probably do the 9 week ultrasound. May be a quirky thing about us "infertiles," we never turn down a peak at our hard-earned babies.

They also gave Angie instructions on gradually weening her estrogen and progesterone supplements and a list of approved medicines, including a few things that help with nausea as she has not been feeling her best.

Finally, the RE told me about a little option that I didn't know about during Fletcher's cycle. She said that the lab we used for the genetic testing (CPG) tests the sex chromosomes of the embryos, but only indicates on the original report whether or not they are normal. It does not indicate gender of the embryos (because they do not allow people to select which embryos to transfer based on gender). However, once a pregnancy is achieved, the fertility clinic can call CPG and find out the gender of the embryos we transferred. Honestly, if it were only up to me, I think I would want gender to remain a mystery until birth. But, if you know Angie, you know that is not an option. So, if we are going to find out at the 20 week anatomy ultrasound anyway, do you think we may as well find out now? Let me know what you would do if you were me by voting in my nifty little poll: