Progress

After saying that I wasn't feeling sick -- week 11-15 decided to give me a run for my money & although I never actually spewed, I did spend a lot of my time feeling rather sick.  We went away for Queen's birthday (long weekend) and wished we had stayed at home!
Along with that I have had quite bad headaches/migraines quite consistently almost every week that last a day or two.
The progress to report though is that has only been for a short time & I am now feeling mostly back to normal.  I still have strange food likes & dis-likes -- Jon is rather sick of having potatoes most nights for dinner!
My jeans no longer fit me & I have started feeling very little movements.
I decided to at long last take a pregnancy test & although this was a little bit late -- at least I was going to be insured of a positive result...

The other night Jon got to feel the baby kicking & then a few nights later as he felt it kick, he pushed back & the baby kicked back as though they were communicating with each other!  Rather surreal! :-)

Progress

First Scan

7 weeks into the pregnancy we were required to have our first scan.  This was scheduled in the holidays after Easter on 11th April.  We had to travel to Whangarei as that is the closest place for us under our Fertility Treatment clinic.  I wasn't quite sure what to expect -- all I knew was that it was uncomfortable because I had to have a full bladder!
Almost immediately after she got the picture up on the screen we could see the little baby & then Jon noticed straight away it's heart beating. It was almost as if the whole thing was a heart!  It was going crazy -- 153bpm.  She then measured it at 1.2cm long & told us that everything was fine & it was in the right place, right size & a good heartbeat.
It was quite a surreal experience and confirmed that something was happening down there -- that I truly was pregnant.  We had to stop & thank God -- we are truly fearfully & wonderfully made.
We then celebrated by going to our favourite Indian restaurant in Whangarei.  It was a good day.
Here are some pictures the radiologist gave us.

Heartbeat to the left

I am now 10 weeks pregnant and everything is going well so far.  I have felt a bit sick at times, but nothing too major.  I am always extremely tired & my eating habits have got very strange and are hard to understand.
We are in the process of finding a midwife up here & our Fertility clinic has signed us off & we will transfer through to the normal system.  I have also stopped taking the Progesterone pills I had been on since the egg had been put back, so things seem to progressing normally at the moment.
We are now just starting to think about preparing a room for baby & start buying things.  We have also made the news public to everyone -- not that it was a very well kept secret anyway!!

First Scan

One more step

On Sunday this last week it was 2 weeks since they collected my eggs & theoretically the first time they could find out if I was pregnant.  The blood test people here in Kaitaia don't open on a Sunday, so I had to wait until Monday.  I had it done about 8:30am and then had to wait all day for the phone call.
It eventually came about 3pm, and the news was that it was a positive test!  Wasn't really too sure how to react & ended up having a little cry!  I will need another test on Friday to confirm & also monitor my hormone levels.  I am thinking I might do a home pregnancy test then too, just so I can take a picture of the stick... :-)
We celebrated the news on Monday night with Jon mopping the basement floor from all the rain water that had flooded in there & me going to bed very early with a crazy migraine -- without taking any panadol!!
If all goes to plan, the baby will be due early December -- I am thinking the day the world is suppose to end would be good -- 12/12/12
O well, one more step along the journey...God is good :-)

One more step