I Think I Tested Too Early... 5dp6dt IVF #3

My boy Maximus on the SUP with Mommy!

First of all, Thank you for all of your support!  I so appreciate your prayers and words of encouragement!

After my last poas around 3pm, seeing a BFN, I couldn't take it any more... I put those sticks AWAY! Vowing not to test for at least two days so I can get a better answer.  I went to bed feeling hopeless, 100% sure that this didn't work, devastated, bargaining with God, I am going to bed with new found hope tonight!

How am I feeling 5dp6dt? I think I might have tested too soon!  HELLO BLOAT!!!!!  Oh how I missed you!  Its back... its full on!  I should my stomach to my hubby and he confirmed.  He had just got done commenting how flat my stomach was again two days ago.  My bb's are also getting sore, more so on the sides.

This morning I woke up still feeling helpless. Hopeless.  You should read my prayer journal!  Asking God WHY?  WHY does this keep happening to us?  I was then reading in Psalms and I was given this verse...

Reminded again that my hope and trust is in him... and nothing else!

Today my gf Crystal and I took our kiddos to the nature center in New Port Back Bay.  It was the perfect place to get my mind off of all this!  The had a scavenger hunt for the kids to find things in nature... lady bug, tadpoles, pinecone, bark, a log, butterfly, lizard, etc.  The kids LOVED it!  I found it super healing.

As I was walking around, I kept thinking, am I feeling the bloat coming back?  Are my bb's now sore?  OMGosh they are!  I'm not kidding, my stomach is getting more bloated by the min. AMAZING.

I am keeping those tests away.  I'm going to rest in these symptoms.  Pray they keep getting stronger. Wait for BETA Saturday and PRAY these babes STICK!  Please let them be our take home babies!!!!

Beta #3! 5 weeks pregnant!

This baby must be growing.  The last two days I've been up at 5am wide awake and I can't go back to sleep for the life of me.  I'm not hungry, I don't think, but my mind is wide awake.  I'm also having trouble going to sleep at night!  I think I have a little case of pregnancy induced insomnia.

I had this with the boys.  With them it started two days before BETA #1, which was 9dp5dpt, or 14dpo.  I few days later I was starving in the middle of the night.  I hope that doesn't start!

So far, I haven't had much of an appetite.  I'm not especially hungry, just eating as usual, with no aversions to food.

Per my transfer day, I'm officially 5 Weeks today!  Although I know I'm going to measuring 5 days behind... unless this baby does some major catch up!

My belly is already sticking out!  I have a pooch!  Is it because my uterus already knows what to do?  I'm not having much ligament growing pains, like I did with the boys, or those horrible stabbing vagina pains (they were painful!). My bb's are still sore, full and heavy with blue vains and my nipples are also filled out.  I have been getting tired in the afternoon, but no naps yet, and I'm going to bed around nine, it just takes me a while to fall asleep.

Today is BETA#3.  I don't feel nervous this time since all the symptoms are progressing, but I am anxious for the #.

Beta #1 @ 10dp5dt = 33
Beta #2 @ 14dp5dt = 271
Beta #3 @ 16dp5dt = ???

Stay tuned!!!

***updated***

Just got the call from the nurse! Beta #3 came in at 699!!! This babe is growing! I go back friday for my first ultrasound! Thank you Jesus!!! Praise God!!!