Week 5

As of today I am 5 weeks pregnant!!

I am feeling really good – I am quite tired (consistently feel like I have had no sleep at all!), my breast are really really really sore but apart from that I am feeling good.  I have no nausea so far – when I was pregnant with my son I had “morning” sickest that lasted from the time I woke to the time I went back to sleep (why they call it morning sickness is beyond me) – it only lasted for 38 weeks!!!! It was awful...so far so good this time (the sickness with my son started the moment I conceived!).  I do have some shortest of breath which I had with my last pregnancy as well – I was told last time this is quite normal and is caused by increasing hormones.    It is not too bad just when I walk up a flight of stairs that I am really out of breath – I know it is not a fitness issue as I was fine climbing a flight stars 3 weeks ago - I have been going for walks with my son (and the dog) in the evening – it is summer now so the early part of the evening is really nice to go walking – we go for about 45mins – the only drawback is the shortest of breath – I am really huffing and puffing by the time I get back but it is OK and I think it worth pushing through this at this early stage in order to keep up my fitness.

Tommorow I go for another blood test – interested see if my levels are double or quadruple!!

Could it be twins?

There is a high chance that I could be carrying twins – I was given an ultrasound during my last cycle which is unusual as I have never had an ultrasound during a cycle before – I did notice that my estrogens was high – it was already at 1100 on day 14 – normally I reach about 800 at the most – then on day 15 (ovulation day) it jumped to 1700!  Never been that high!  The ultrasound revealed that had released TWO good size eggs!  Was asked if I wanted to continue with the cycle as obviously there was a very high risk of twins – I agreed to keep going as I figured at least one had to take!

The wait is on now to see if there are 1 or 2 babies on the way!  I will be happy either way as long as they are healthy it does not matter if there is 1 or 2 growing in there.....but I am anxious to find out!

From the beginning

The blog is about my journey through my 3^rd pregnancy.  I am a sole parent of two children – 14year old girl (Caitlyn) and a 2 year old son (Oliver) – I am currently 4.4 weeks pregnant with my 3^rd child.

My son and the new pregnancy have both been conceived using a sperm donor through Concept Fertility clinic.  It took 13 goes of AI to conceive my son over a 18month period – to say it was emotionally difficult would be an understatement – to be told over and over again that there was nothing was just heart breaking!  I was getting ready to start IVF when I finally fell pregnant.  

My current pregnancy was a lot lot quicker – I have managed to conceive on the 3^rd attempt using AI – I changed doctors and he did take a slightly different approach given my previous history.  Both pregnancies have been conceived using Clomid (50mg).  When I went into this round I thought I would be able to handle it a lot better given that I have been the fully process previous – well I have to say something that ingiecy is bliss –  I think I knew too much this time and the expectation was so much higher – I turn 40 is just over a week and I felt that I needed to be pregnant before I turned 40 – the 3 months that I spend trying where extremely difficult - I think more difficult that the previous 12 – I was an emotional wreck!  I had already decided that if this 3^rd attempt failed that I was not going to try any more as I was just struggling to much and it was having a negative effect on my life.