Nothing Bad Has Happened Yet.

[rivka]

So, um. I'm pregnant again.

I'm eight weeks along. On Friday I had an ultrasound - the first time I've ever had one this early - and saw a little grey ovoid blob with a tiny rapid flicker on one side. That was the heartbeat. The fetus is measuring exactly on pace for calendar dates (1.2cm long), and the heartbeat is 136bpm, which is excellent for this stage of development.

So things are hopeful, but. This is my third pregnancy, and I have one kid. So we're not exactly 100% yay-hooray-let's-decorate-the-nursery yet.

This is, on the one hand, further along than I ever got the last time. To the best of our providers' understanding, in the last pregnancy fetal parts never developed (just a placenta) and there was certainly never a heartbeat. On the other hand, though, last time I made it five weeks further than this before suddenly there was blood and disaster.

I'm having some hormone issues in this pregnancy. My levels of HCG, the "pregnancy hormone," have been beautifully high and enthusiastically doubling from the very start. (Midwifery model or no, we have been monitoring the hell out of things this time around.) My progesterone levels are a different story. They started out on the low-ish side, and then dipped lower instead of increasing. So I've been taking progesterone supplements for the past 3.5 weeks. They seem to be working. So far.

I feel very, very pregnant. The first trimester symptoms are all present and accounted for. Of course, they were last time as well.

We are hopeful that sometime in the second week of February there will be a baby. Hopeful, but not, you know, sure. I'm adopting as my mantra a phrase from the defunct-and-disappeared blog Chez Miscarriage: Nothing Bad Has Happened Yet.

Nothing Bad Has Happened Yet. Which is a good place to be.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Nothing Bad Has Happened Yet strikes me as an excellent mantra.

*support support support*

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

[puzzlement.livejournal.com]

Best wishes from a stranger on the internet for this pregnancy. I wish you hope, and joy.

[lcohen]

i hope you look back in february and can title this time: "nothing bad happened at all!"

*hugs*

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

I second that beautiful thought and send gentle, positive thoughts in your direction.

[dlacey.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. I'll be thinking good thoughts for you.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Sending good thoughts in your direction.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

OH! Good luck, good luck, good luck!!!

<3

N.

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking nothing but positive thoughts for you. Good luck. *hug*

[charlottezweb.livejournal.com]

Oh, heartbeat! cautious, yaying! Because of a family history of problems, we went in quite early for an u/s and have a couple up till now. At the first one, there was no fetal pole yet, so not that comforting, but we saw the heartbeat at the second and heard it at the third. We're 10 1/2 weeks now and yes, nothing bad has happened yet. Sending good thoughts your way!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping all continues to go well.

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

Lots of good thoughts!

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Oh! Cautious optimism! Best wishes!

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Good Thoughts.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Thinking cautiously hopeful thoughts your way. *hug*

[redbird23.livejournal.com]

I'll keep thinking good thoughts and hoping good hopes.

[moobabe.livejournal.com]

NBHHY!

I miss that blog.

Thinking good thoughts for you!

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

NBHHY!

I miss that blog.

Just what I was thinking.

Also: YAY!

[abbylee]

I am thinking hopeful thoughts for you and your family, too <3

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

May "nothing bad" continue!

[kaitiana.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, and many best wishes that nothing bad continues right on happening for the next months--and years--to come!

[erikted.livejournal.com]

Congrats, and a hopeful burst of 'may nothing bad happen' wishes.

[eeyorerin]

I hope nothing bad will continue to happen and that you'll have a lovely little valentine in 2009.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

Good Thoughts and Helpful chanting

Completely off topic:

1) I got full marks on that paper. Thanks again for your help!
2) Partly from years of knowing you, Kit and I are members of a UU Congregation. :)

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

NBHHY!

I hope with all my heart you all get to welcome a new member of the family next year.

[txobserver.livejournal.com]

May no new thing arise!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Hope is good. I will hope for you, too, especially for a long and uneventful "yet."