Another good week!

I just wanted to keep everyone updated and share my latest picture from my appointment on Tuesday.  The heartbeat is still strong and the baby is measuring exactly where he/she should be.  It's very hard to not expect bad news as I've never received good news this many weeks in a row but I'm trying to enjoy every second of it.  I will have an appointment every week until 12 weeks unless I feel comfortable going every 2 weeks.  I'm thankful for a caring doctor. :)

The baby is in between the 2 *'s. 

Change of plans!

You know, you hear about people all the time who couldn't have kids and then they decide to adopt and BAM they're pregnant... and it so happens that.... BAM, I'm pregnant! Now, with all of the past miscarriages obviously I am cautiously excited but I'm happy to report that so far we've had nothing but good news.  I am about 7 weeks, 2 days and I've seen a heartbeat and the baby has doubled in size since last week so this is definitely the furthest we've ever made it.  I'm on a slew of medicine including progesterone (2x/day), levothyroxine, prenatal vitamin, folic acid and lovenox (which is an injection).  So far everything seems to be working great.  What does this mean about our adoption process?  Well, we are still interested in adopting and so that is definitely in the future for us but our agency requires children that are in your home to be in the home more than 6 months before they will place a child in your home... so instead of having a homestudy now, which is only good for one year, we will just wait a little while and have the homestudy at a point where we won't have to spend money having another one because of family changes. 

In regards to how I'm feeling - I have all the normal symptoms (which is great) and I advise anyone that can, to wait to talk to me until at least 11:00am.  Otherwise.... well let's just say I'm not the most pleasant person in the mornings. :)  I've told my secretary's it's probably a good idea that I don't talk to any parents - especially those who are complaining - until the afternoon.  I will keep everyone updated and I certainly appreciate any prayers that you can send our way!!

Here are our ultrasound pictures so far! What a difference one week makes... the pictures are 5wks2days, 6wks2days, 7wks2days.