I can’t believe I’m writing this, but everything looks normal and healthy for now! We’ve never, ever, gotten this far in a pregnancy, and it’s sort of hard to fathom that everything is still on the up and up. Why this pregnancy? Why now? I’m just happy. Bebe’s heart is beating away at 148bpm, and [...]
Archive for May, 2008
All is well, for now.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
back into that room tomorrow…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I was tossing and turning worrying about my ultrasound tomorrow. I hope I exhausted myself enough so that I actually sleep tonight.
I’m trying awfully hard to be hopeful. But some of my more pronounced symptoms have left me. Like the sore breasts (all gone). Not a terribly good sign. I’ve still been a [...]
MEPA (Multiethnic Placement Act)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who missed it, there was a write up on MEPA in today’s NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/us/27adopt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
This was also a featured topic on NPR’s Talk of the Nation today, but unless you are already very well-versed in domestic trans-racial adoption, it wasn’t too enlightening & sounded a lot more like an on-air debate.
roller coaster
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
And now I’m happy. Apparently the blood was from my cervix (what? shoving a hard bit of plastic up there with a pill twice a day can irritate a cervix?). We’re a little shy of 6 weeks, and we saw the heartbeat flicker. Thanks so much everyone (Kellad) for sending luck my way.
I have never, [...]
Going into that dark, dreadful room
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, the betas from yesterday were great. My progesterone was fine. So I was on cloud nine last night. This morning I had some bright red spotting, and I just feel like it’s probably the beginning of the end. I’m going in for an ultrasound this afternoon in that dark dreadful room where I never [...]
two kinds of days
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lately there have been two kinds of days: “maybe this pregnancy will work” and “this pregnancy is going terribly wrong.” It’s not even 8am, and it’s the latter sort of day. There are lots of reasons for me to worry: I haven’t really had any morning sickness to assure me that I am indeed pregnant, [...]
packing
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve met a few people in my life who actually claim to enjoy this process . . . but most people will agree that it is quite difficult. It’s not so much the actual labor that goes into it, which takes a lot of time and patience, but for me it’s tough to see [...]
pregnancy #5
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For those of you who know me in real life, please pretend you don’t know the following:
I’m pregnant.
ACK.
Don’t tell anyone who you’ll have to untell later. Actually, just don’t tell anyone. Maybe pretend you don’t know if you see me in real life so that if something goes wrong and you ask how it’s going [...]
