Thursday

December 30

Today marks Jennie's 7th week of pregnancy. Her land-mine scarred booty will receive 9 more shots per week for at least another 5 weeks. Ouch!

Each night before bed, I inject Jennie with a 2cc dose of progesterone in olive oil. On Tuesday and Saturday nights, she also receives an injection of estradiol valerate. I was under the impression that these shots were supplemental to the health of her uterus. But, the doctor told us these shots were keeping Jennie pregnant right now. Her body will take over the baby making process around the 12th week of pregnancy.

If you ask Daphne just about any question, her answer will be "five" about 90% of the time. She is infatuated with showing her finger extended hand while shouting, "I want five!" Jennie asked her if she wanted 7 or 8 of something not too long ago and Daphne replied, "No Mommy, I want 5!" To her, five is like infinity. "I want five brothers and sisters!" "I want five dollies!" "I want five pancakes!"

This week Daphne discovered an even larger infinity. With both hands outstretched, she now proclaims, "I want five plus five (insert random item here)".

Until tomorrow,
Dave T.

Monday

December 27

Today, Jennie's 7 week ultrasound was performed.

We have one healthy 6.5mm embryo with a sweet sounding heartbeat (125 beats per minute). Here's your first look at our second child:

Baby XYZ


Daphne had an exciting, white Christmas! She received so many wonderful dolls, toys, and clothes... I think she is truly in heaven.

Here are some new photos of my little pooh bear:














Until tomorrow,
Dave T.

Tuesday

December 21

PREGNANCY UPDATE: precise dates below based on a routine doctor visit yesterday.

EDD (estimated delivery date) = August 17, 2011

Jennie will be considered 6 weeks pregnant this Thursday. Based on Daphne's early arrival, I predict baby XYZ's delivery date will be closer to August 10th.

Jennie's next ultrasound is Monday, December 27th in the morning.

Here are some new photos of Daphne with MiMi & PopPop (Jennie's parents):







Until tomorrow,
Dave T.

Thursday

December 16

It's official!

Jennie's third blood test to measure hCG came back with a value of 1817. It needed to double over the previous reading of 690 to be considered prego. She had an extra 437 to spare...

An ultrasound to count the number of yolk sacs (number of potential children) will occur the week of December 27th. That will be considered the week 7 ultrasound.

Re-read Daphne's 7 week ultrasound transcript.

A baby at 7 weeks looks like:


Until tomorrow,
Dave T.

Tuesday

December 14







  • Jennie's initial hCG reading from last Friday was a 195. (A very high starting point)

  • Jennie's second hCG reading from yesterday was a 690. (The value needed to triple and it did)

  • She has a third blood draw tomorrow at 10:30 am. (The value should double)



Embryo(s) are approximately 22 - 23 days old (7 days old at transfer on November 29th).

By LMP standards, Jennie is considered 4 1/2 weeks pregnant.

Re-read similar transcripts when we became pregnant with Daphne...

Until tomorrow,
Dave T.

Monday

December 13

Jennie has a follow up visit later this morning at the doctor's office. They will draw more blood and compare the hCG levels to her initial test from Friday.

Here are some new photos of Daphne while we continue to wait on the pregnancy test results:









Daphne riding a motorized kiddie cart


Until tomorrow,
Dave T.

Saturday

December 11

Yesterday's pregnancy blood work was merely a baseline to measure Jennie's beta hCG levels.

She is scheduled to have another reading on Monday and if it has risen, they will schedule a third reading to determine if she's truly pregnant. The third test date is to be determined (maybe Wednesday?).

The peepee sticks are not entirely accurate due to all of the shots, hormones, etc that Jennie's body has been experiencing.

More to come...

Until tomorrow,
Dave T.

Monday

December 6

Jennie's first of potentially three pregnancy tests (by blood draw) will occur this Friday, December 10th.

We have three possibilities: not pregnant (boo!), pregnant with one (yay!), or pregnant with two (oh geez!).

New photos coming soon,
Dave T.