The Luckiest No Matter What!

Friday September 5th, 2014: 6 weeks, 5 days One of my best friends is a nurse, who worked in an OBGYN doctor's office and she shall remain nameless in case she could ever get busted for this ;) Anyway, she shared a trick with me after I was pregnant with Nolan and Judah.  She said that if/when I ever get pregnant again, to play dumb with my OBGYN doctor's office and pretend NOT to know when my last period was.  She said they would give me an ultrasound to see how big the baby is to help determine a due date.  You all know from my subsequent pregnancies that ultrasounds are truly the ONLY thing to give 'my crazy' a rest.  I was lucky enough and crazy enough to get a whopping  17 ultrasounds while pregnant with Nolan and Judah.  I even kept an appointment with my OBGYN that I didn't need because I was going down to Ann Arbor to have an ultrasound that very same week.  Seriously, I'm obsessed.... like real obsessed.  I am also wise enough to know that beca

Mid August 2014: Newly Pregnant What I'm about to say isn't new news: My past history of miscarriage and infertility makes me an absolute crazy pregnant women .  Even though I learned with Nolan and Judah that I am crazy the ENTIRE pregnancy, I am the worst basket-case during the 1st trimester.  This is explainable by the fact that our miscarriages occurred during this time, the 1st trimester, statistically, has higher risk of miscarriage than the other two trimesters, and the fact that you are rarely seen by a doctor and you have no reassurance of feeling kicks from the baby or a growing belly.  My worrying cripples me and there isn't much that can help me during this time.  The information that helps me get by, just a little, is receiving my beta HCG levels.  Let me explain... Upon first finding out, with a blood test, that I really was pregnant, my doctor's office has you get your beta HCG numbers checked.  In case you didn't know, HCG is the hormone Human Ch