Jelly Beans and Easter Bunnies
It's been a while since I posted, but I've been preoccupied. Anyway, Easter went well. Both families were fairly well behaved so dinner at mom's and dessert at my in-law's was nice. My husband played Easter bunny for my nephews and hid tons of eggs in my mom's back yard. The oldest was pretty good on his own, but the little guy was more interested in finding out what was inside the plastic eggs. He was also real good at stealing eggs right out of his brother's basket. Why find your own when you can steal from your big brother, right? It was adorable regardless. After dinner we headed to my in-law's see the rest of the family. My mother-in-law was her usual self and made a few ridiculous comments about what we should name the baby, what theme the baby's room should be, etc. I politely told her that since we've waited a long time for this, we've had plenty on time to figure things out and we would be just fine. Then her sister told her that it was none of her business and that she needed to keep her nose out of things. Thank you Aunt Marie. But, the topic was easily changed and everything was ok. I know she's just so excited and I know that I'm going to get all sorts of advice from all sorts of people, so I just try to take everything as it comes. Not that I don't want to necessarily hear what some people think, but I am not naming my kid Jerome because my mother-in-law loves that name and regrets not naming my husband that.
We had our first ultrasound this morning. There is one big (relatively anyway), healthy baby. Not twins. I have mixed feelings about it though. Part of me is a little disappointed because I really would have loved to have two (and not to mention the fact that if we had two, I wouldn't have to go through all this IVF stuff again). Part of me is also quite relieved. Babies are a lot of work. It would have been a little scary to have two infants to take care of. It's all good though. The doctor is happy with what he sees and we finally have what we've been trying so long and so hard for. We weren't able to see the heartbeat yet. The doctor saw some flickering on the ultrasound screen (which is really the heartbeat), but he was able to differentiate between mine and the baby's on the sound monitor. It's still a little early for that though so he's not worried. Usually they can hear it by 6 1/2 to 7 weeks. I'm just 6 weeks now. We have another appointment for next Friday. By then we should be all set. We got our second picture of our baby too. We actually have pictures of the embryos they transferred and now we have the first ultrasound picture. Right now the baby looks like a little jelly bean. So, that's going to be our nickname for our baby - Jelly Bean. I've always said that I don't want to find out the sex. As long as it has 5 fingers on each hand and 5 toes on each foot, I'd be happy. So, we need to call the baby something for the next 8 months or so...we can't just keep calling it baby. So, since it looks like a jelly bean, jelly bean it is.
We had our first ultrasound this morning. There is one big (relatively anyway), healthy baby. Not twins. I have mixed feelings about it though. Part of me is a little disappointed because I really would have loved to have two (and not to mention the fact that if we had two, I wouldn't have to go through all this IVF stuff again). Part of me is also quite relieved. Babies are a lot of work. It would have been a little scary to have two infants to take care of. It's all good though. The doctor is happy with what he sees and we finally have what we've been trying so long and so hard for. We weren't able to see the heartbeat yet. The doctor saw some flickering on the ultrasound screen (which is really the heartbeat), but he was able to differentiate between mine and the baby's on the sound monitor. It's still a little early for that though so he's not worried. Usually they can hear it by 6 1/2 to 7 weeks. I'm just 6 weeks now. We have another appointment for next Friday. By then we should be all set. We got our second picture of our baby too. We actually have pictures of the embryos they transferred and now we have the first ultrasound picture. Right now the baby looks like a little jelly bean. So, that's going to be our nickname for our baby - Jelly Bean. I've always said that I don't want to find out the sex. As long as it has 5 fingers on each hand and 5 toes on each foot, I'd be happy. So, we need to call the baby something for the next 8 months or so...we can't just keep calling it baby. So, since it looks like a jelly bean, jelly bean it is.