#ivfau

What a coincidence.

8 July 2016 I've been a bit absent since my last post (sorry!), but I haven't really had too much to share since our 7 week ultrasound... Until this week! So, I went to my normal GP following our graduation from the fertility clinic. I got to share the happy news with her that "hey, you know how you wrote me that referral for the fertility clinic 13 months ago?! We're pregnant!". She was thrilled, which was lovely. And then she started asking questions about private/public health system and which obstetrician we wanted to see. Wow. I was so prepared with all the facts for the infertility side of my journey but at that point I felt completely unprepared for the pregnancy side of things. After some phone calls to our health provider about which obstetricians were covered in our insurance, and googling various forums, we decided on our ob and then called my doctor back to ask her to write a referral letter. Then we booked our appointment with the ob & had to wait. It was almost 5 long weeks of being treated like a "normal pregnant lady" with no appointments, bloods or check ups before we met with our ob this week. I was so used to being treated like an IVF science experiment; being poked, prodded and probed; I found the wait, and especially not having to "do" anything, excruciating! I'm currently just over 11 weeks pregnant and look like I've eaten a big burrito (so not very much of a bump at all). My symptoms have been heartburn, extreme fatigue, and all day nausea since 5.5 weeks. Thankfully it's been pretty easy to hide my pregnancy from the coworkers who don't know! Our ob did an ultrasound and we got to see Beecheese this week to reassure me that there was actually a baby in there 😀 There Beecheese was, swimming around, little heart beating. Everything is going well! Next week we have our first trimester screen and 12 week scan. I've been told the images will be amazing! I honestly feel like we've won the lotto. Before IVF I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that having a baby might have been off the agenda for us. And now I can't find enough words to explain how happy and lucky I feel. If this is a dream, I hope I never wake up!