bennett baby blog: July 2007

Monday, July 30, 2007

baby's first picture!

we got to see our baby's heartbeat! we are so happy. i cried when i saw it. the ultrasound tech said that it is a strong heartbeat and that all of our baby's measurements are exactly where they should be. i am so thankful that our prayers have been answered. today is a great day. we leave for europe tomorrow. this is going to make our vacation SO MUCH BETTER!

1st doctor's visit

my doc wants to see me before i leave for vacation so i have an appt for this afternoon at 2:30pm. normally the infertility clinic has you come in at 7 1/2 weeks to see if they can find a heartbeat. if they do, then you move on to a regular OB. if not, they bring you in until they can find one, or until they find out why they can't find one (miscarriage, etopic preg, etc.). since i'm only at 6 1/2 weeks, they probably won't be able to see a heartbeat. the nurse has already warned me not to panic since it's so early. there is a small chance that they will be able to see one. I really, really, really hope so.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Europe

a couple of our good friends are getting married in serbia on aug 4th. we weren't sure if we were going to be able to go since our lives had sort of been put on hold for the last 2 years from us trying to get pregnant. well, we were feeling a bit frustrated about the whole thing and ended up getting back more from our tax return than expected so we decided to go ahead and plan our vacation. since we were already going to serbia we decided to also spend some time in italy. neither of us had ever been to europe and we've always wanted to go. we booked our trip a few months ago. we leave on july 31st. i asked my doctor if traveling to europe was ok since we just found out that i'm pregnant. she said that it was fine and just to drink lots of bottled water, no ice, etc. i'm still really excited to go but now i'm getting nervous that something could go wrong while we're out there. i guess that if something is going to happen, it's going to happen, and if the doctor said i should go, then i should go. i just pray that everything will be ok. it will be nice to spend some time with john in a romantic country like italy before we have a little one arrive. we just celebrated our 4 year anniversary. i'm such a lucky girl to have a wonderful husband like john. I LOVE YOU BABE!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

our story

we've been trying to get pregnant for 2 years and have spent the last year going through kaiser's infertility program. all of our testing showed that we were physically able to conceive, it just wasn't happening no matter what we tried. i became very frustrated, to say the least. june was my 7th cycle of clomid and my 3rd month of the clomid "combo" (clomid and injections). if it hadn't have worked, i would have had to move on to strictly injections, which i didn't want to do. i was beginning to think that it would never happen for us and maybe i should just give up. i was shocked to see the faint line on the pregnancy test last weekend. i was scared to get excited until i knew for sure so john went to the store at 5:30am and brought home 2 more tests and all of them gave a positive result. we are both so happy. we've been praying all day every day that the pregnancy will go smoothly and that our baby will be healthy. we are so excited. :)