Today I'm 8 weeks 6 days pregnant. With each passing week, I feel a little bit more relieved as we approach the end of the first trimester.
I have had zero morning sickness. I read on another woman's blog that some people are immune to HCG and do not have morning sickness. I'm rather glad for that because carrying twins, apparently the morning sickness and all other pregnancy symptoms magnify two-fold.
I do have hunger pains that are out of this world and I'm tired more often than not. I also get up to go to the bathroom more often in the middle of the night. It's when I get up in the middle of the night that I notice I'm STARVING. I told my husband that I was STARVING in the middle of the night and he asked me if I ate something.
No! It reminds me too much of when I was in high school and I used to get hunger pains in the middle of the night. I'd eat something and then my mom would get mad because she thought I was getting fat. I don't know... am I supposed to eat something in the middle of the night when I'm pregnant? This is all so new to me, I have no idea what to expect.
I also got my first cold sore in over two years. I actually thought I was immune to them finally. Like, I wouldn't get them again. Boy, was I wrong. I know the reasoning behind it now and hopefully, I'll be more prepared for them. My immune system is not working on full-throttle like it normally is and I've also been stressing out a bit too much about this pregnancy. On Tuesday, the day we go in for our weekly ultrasound with the fertility clinic, I feel this sense of trepidation. I'm afraid the doctor is going to stick the wand up my hoo ha and there will be nothing there. But, by this point, I'm feeling a little better. Mostly because if there was anything chromosomally wrong with the embryos, they never would have had a detectable heartbeat. Apparently, the chance of miscarriage goes significantly down once a heartbeat is detected.
So, there's that. I have one more ultrasound with my fertility clinic and hopefully, I'll be released to my regular doctor and will have my first ultrasound with her. Then, I'll be weighed and told how fat I've gotten since the last time I was there. It sucks because with each IVF cycle I did, the hormones I was on led to weight gain. I don't like how big I've gotten, but with pregnancy, there's not much I can do. Thankfully, I've been craving fruits and veggies more and have been eating a lot of it during the week. I love dip, though, so I'm not sure how much I'm defeating the purpose if I eat my veggies with dip. I did buy some plain yogurt to mix in with the dip packets - that might not be so bad.
A coworker commented that she thought I was already starting to show. I have noticed that my stomach is sticking out more, but that's all I've noticed. I just feel like a bloated cow. And, walking around with the plague on my face for a few days didn't help in the beauty department.
My husband got a bit mad at me on Tuesday morning when, in a fit of desperation, I scanned the medical stuff that came with my cold sore medication, and noting that it said it was OK to use while pregnant when "absolutely needed," I put some of it on my lip. He thought I should have waited until I had talked to the doctor before even touching the stuff. But, as a cold sore sufferer, I know that if I don't get that medication on my face at the first sign of tingling, it will explode into massive proportions and will take weeks to heal.
At the fertility clinic, the doctor looked up the medication I was using in her drug encyclopedia and found that the drug is a Class B drug. Basically, it hasn't been studied on pregnant humans for adverse affects, only on lab animals (which I don't really like to talk about... I can't stand to hear about stuff like that) and has been found to not have any affects on them. Still, since it hasn't been tested on humans, it's a kind of drug that should be used sparingly. She said it would be OK for me to use it at the beginning of the treatment and then taper off within four days. Whew! Seriously, unless you've had cold sores in the past, it's hard to explain the pain and suffering they cause. They itch, they burn, they hurt, they cause the glands in my neck to swell, and if not treated right away, they take two weeks to heal.
I put the medication on every day, despite that the medication looked worse on than when I didn't have it on my face. It was HIDEOUS. Couple that with my feeling like a bloated cow and I just wanted to stay home. For the first two days, I put the stuff on every two hours while awake and then on Thursday, I put it on about every three hours. Friday, I put some on in the morning, but wiped it off when I got to work. I then put some on last night before bed, put some on this morning, and that's it. So, in five days, my cold sore is gone.
Now I feel much better about myself. :)
Here are the ultrasound pics from 9 weeks. I'll have to post the newest ones at another time.
Each baby:
Both together:
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