Update: 7-9 Weeks Pregnant

How I'm Feeling:

7 Weeks Pregnant: 

Nausea is off the chain morning, afternoon and evening! Appetite barely existent. Feeling completely exhausted. Falling asleep on the couch by 7PM. Dragging in the mornings.

8 Weeks Pregnant: 

Gave in to Diclegis to manage debilitating nausea. Really helped curb my gagging and increase my appetite. The downside of the medication is it makes you very sleepy. After about four days of taking it I decreased my dosage and now feel more balanced. Still craving processed foods and carbs like crazy. Managing to get some applesauce and clementines down the hatch every so often, but still turned off by most fruits and veggies. Constipation kicking back in. Bladder filling up more frequently, leading to more frequent trips to the bathroom.

9 Weeks Pregnant: 

One week until double digits! Trying to muster up the confidence to believe all is still growing as planned, despite no more weekly scans to confirm. Waking up in the middle of the night to pee. Appetite increasing. Mood swinging :)

We are planning to sneak back to the RE around 11 weeks to say hi to the babies, as waiting until 13 weeks feels like an eternity. Feeling thankful to have such a supportive team behind us. Though we have officially graduated from the fertility clinic, we know it's not really "goodbye" and is instead, "see ya later". Forever indebted and in need of babysitters. 

Things I Can Tolerate Eating:

Mac & Cheese
Chef Boyardee (yes, like a five year old)
Chicken Noodle Soup (sans chicken)
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches

Plain Bagel

Processed CRAP!

Things I Can Tolerate Drinking:

Chocolate Milk
Orange Juice
Gatorade
(Absolutely hating water!)

For those on Baby/Low-Dose Aspirin and Progesterone. I am sharing with you the following information, as I stopped both of these supplements very early in pregnancy and was not able to find ANY other women on the internet who had, which scared the shit out of me.

Stopped low dose aspirin at 6.5 weeks
Dropped progesterone to one 200 mg pill per day at 7 weeks
Stopped progesterone at 8 weeks

Babies are still alive and well! 

Obviously different factors may keep you on these supplements for longer, and really there isn't much proven harm that can come from taking them, but I chose to trust my doctor and allow my body to do what it is supposed to. I had no proven clotting factors or deficiencies in progesterone levels. We added these to the protocol to help with implantation and make the environment happy for babies. Once they were implanted and hearts were beating, my doctor suggested we stop the advil and progesterone, as she doesn't believe in taking things unnecessarily. I was admittedly terrified to stop, thinking they were the magical pills that made this work, but lo and behold, all is well. 

BabyUKUx2 - 8 Weeks + 3 Days (Both growing two days ahead @ 8w+5)