Week 11 update

I am now officially the farthest along I've ever been. The first time I miscarried I was 11 weeks 3 days and today I am 11 weeks 5 days. It's a good feeling. Obviously, I still have a very long way to go, but for now things are still going smoothly. At my 11 week RE appt, baby was still measuring a day behind but again, there was no concern. Fluid levels were great and baby was moving his/her arms a lot with the occasional leg kick. Because I have had no problems, I was released a week early! I was able to walk out with my records and told to find an OB right away. I finally made the decision to go with a local OB and not do the drive to Tucson for the birthing center. I know that I can always change my mind if I don't feel comfortable with Dr. K. I again am NOT thrilled with dealing with a man but I've heard great things about him from several people, including my RE's nurse. My first appt is tomorrow with Dr. K's nurse just to get lab slips and to go over my history.

I've tried to avoid talking about my pregnancy symptoms but I think they are worth mentioning now. "Morning" sickness (m/s-or in my case-ALL DAY sickness) SUCKS. I had severe sore boobs when I was pregnant the first time-so much so that I couldn't sleep on my stomach and showering was painful. This time, I have almost no soreness at all. They were sore in the beginning of IVF but it tapered off at 7 weeks-exactly when the m/s started. I either have bad days of m/s or not so bad bad days. I'm either nauseous ALL day or I'm nauseous ALL day with vomiting. If I vomit in the morning, I always vomit in the evening. I was given Zofran and while it does help, I still feel pretty miserable. "This too shall pass" is what my mother and I keep saying but man it's hard. I guess I wasn't expecting it to be this bad since it wasn't for my last two pg's. I'm now learning that every pg is different.

Dh and I will be going to Israel for a once in a lifetime experience/church tour/educational trip in March for close to two weeks. I'm so afraid that I'm going to feel awful the entire time. I know that I'll have to pack half a suitcase full of food so that I can eat every hour (seriously, I eat every hr to keep the m/s at bay). It's not going to be so fun if there I am sitting on our tour bus and I have to continually barf in a plastic bag...I'm assuming those buses aren't well ventilated. Poor, poor passengers. Let's pray that things get better soon!

A friend of mine gave me Intelligender-a silly little gender predictor kit that supposedly tells you the sex of your baby beginning from week 8. I've had to wait to use it because the package says that taking a progesterone supplement will skew the results. Now that I am FREEEEE from PIO, I decided to take it this morning. Here are my results!

I think it looks closer to the girl result. Opinions?? What do you guys think? I guess we'll try to confirm one way or another in 9 weeks via u/s! Hey, they have a 50% chance of being right. :)

Oh, I also wanted to mention that I bought a home fetal heartbeat monitor. I've been able to find the heartbeat twice and it does put my mind much more at ease. I don't want to use it too much because well, who knows what all those sound waves are doing to the baby in there but it sure helps me feel better.