Our fantastic and important dates

Our ET was done on November 28th. 2011 and we were officially once again back in the famous 2WW. The time passed by really fast this time, we both tried to keep ourselves occupied and life with our lovely Nora Wilhelmine makes sure that´s no problem.  :-D

On December 12th, our first beta test was done, but we did not get the results before the next day. That was a very long 24 hours. 

It came back POSITIVE and the magical numbers were: 323.61mlU/ml and the doc´s said that it was a good number for pregnancy. 

The next test result came back to days later and the message from the doc´s message was clear: We are happy that your beta dt 14-Dec has raised to 664.18mlU/ml is an indication for your strong pregnancy.

Hurray! 

The next was: Your beta level dt 16-Dec has increased to 1267.0mlU/ml. 

The first scan was due on December 22nd., we were really excited and could´t wait to find out if it was one our two persons in S´s stomach. 

The report came and... S's scan was done on 22-Dec and we are happy to inform you that the scan indicates a single baby sac of approx 5.4wks. 

We were so happy! Now the biggest milestone was passed and the next one was waiting, the heartbeats. That was were it went wrong the previous time and i was so scared that it would happen again. 

The news we got on January 4th. was fantastic to receive: We are very happy to inform you that S's scan done on 30-Dec reveals a single baby sac of approx 6.3wks. Cardiac activity is very well appreciated. The liquor is adequate, cervix is adequate and the os is closed. 

I was so relived! S is our superwoman, we are all obviously a great match. 

The same day we got some other news: S is with us at SI and doing well. She is on anti-hypertensive medicine Tab Alphadopa (250mg) three times a day. With the tablet her blood pressure is very much under control and it is now 120/80mmHg. 

That was not the best news to receive :-( But the doctor promised me that it is absolutely no problem to carry a pregnancy with these tablets. So we hope that is true and hope for the best. It is obviously better for the fetus that the carrier has a low blood pressure with tablets than a high one. S was also put on a restricted salt diet.

Now she is doing fine and is home with her family. 

The next scan was scheduled to be on January 19th. And the report came back with a few pictures and: The scan reveals a single baby which corresponds to the weeks of gestation. The rest of the scan findings are very well within the normal range.

This is where we are at the moment, since we have chosen to wait to tell before we get to the second trimester I found it necessary to make this little document with the most important dates. 

Now I am trying to figure out when the next scan dates are due. 

And here Lille Trille 2 is showing off from his/her good side :-D

We will continue the updates 

Can we get what we want one more time?

That is the big question these days. Nora Wilhelmine has grown up so fast and we see that she is a bit spoiled. We also want a sibling for other reasons, then she will always have a person that hopefully will be there for her in good and in difficult times. My husband and i have siblings and we want her to have that to. 

So.... the big question is: CAN WE GET WHAT WE WANT ONCE MORE? 

We have already checked out a few things and started the process the summer of 2011, we wanted our surrogate to help us again if she wanted to, but she was not ready at that time. So we started the search for a new surrogate as we though that that our dear S did not want to do it again at all. 

We had a few embryos in the freezer and we decided that if we did not make it with those, we would stop. 

We started up again with a really sweet surrogate, but we had a missed abortion in week 9. I was devastated, my husband to, but we wanted to start again and this time we got the best news ever from India and that was that our wonderful S was ready and she wanted to help us again. 

We were so happy, we know her and her family, we know that she is healthy, relaxed and "experienced". She have two wonderful kids on her own and she carried Nora Wilhelmine and all three pregnancies were without problems. The reason for why she was not available at first was that she wanted to wait until after a festival that she and her family was attending. 

So now we are officially pregnant again, our first HCG test came back with these numbers: 323,61 and the second one: 664,81 :-D I can't do anything else, but to smile a big smile... If we are going to be lucky again, it will be exactly two years between them. Perfect if you ask me. The HCG numbers are much higher then the first time so we are really keeping our fingers crossed and hoping for a new miracle this time. 

Wish us all the luck in the world, because we will need it!

Thumbs up, have a wonderful christmas everyone and enjoy your holidays. We are spending 5 weeks in Thailand enjoying the holidays here.

Will be continued 

Mary