We had our appt yesterday, and all looks good! We didn’t get to do an ultrasound, but we did get to hear Baby Schoen’s heartbeat! 160 beats per minute. The last time we heard the heartbeat was with the fertility center’s fancy machine with a trans-vaginal ultrasound when I was only 6 weeks or so.
Back story on the fertility center:
After about 2 years of infertility and a lap hysteroscopy when my OB removed endometriosis in February, he said that if I haven’t gotten pregnant in 3-6 months, start looking into fertility treatments. Eeck. The money scared the heck outta me. But, as anyone who has gone through infertility knows, it is a rollercoaster of emotions month after month. Not fun and, frankly, exhausting. So at the 3 month mark, I scheduled an appointment to have an initial consultation with a fertility specialist. After all the interviews/questions with the nurse and the doctor, he did an internal ultrasound to check out the uterus, fallopian tubes and my ovaries and actually was able to count the maturing follicles! He told me about when I would ovulate that month and from which ovary (Cool!!). We decided that we would start the IUI process in my next cycle.
But we didn’t have to! The morning that my next cycle was supposed to start, I got up early to answer nature’s call, so I figured I’d just take a pregnancy test (I got a value pack a few months back…might as well use ‘em, right?). And…
My OB says at my next appointment in a month (Aug 25) we should be able to tell the gender on ultrasound if Baby Schoen cooperates and gives us a good glimpse. Hopefully I'll find some entertaining stuff to write about in the meantime...
