The Thing We Brought Back From NYC

So, this all starts around the week of March 2nd. My mouth tastes like I have been sucking metal, everywhere I go I can smell Calstat - which is really weird when I am on the train...Great - it's more new and weird PMS symptoms I think, although I don't actually get any weird mood swings or the general PMS psychosis i have had in recent months - I am not kidding - I have been a total crazy person....To this day I do not know what made me buy the pregnancy test, although I am inclined to go with the absence of the mood swings. There I am on March 10th, peeing on a stick and waiting for the inevitable "not pregnant"........ it doesn't happen - it says "pregnant." I almost stop breathing - I doubt the accuracy. I take the stick and the incredible result downstairs and show Robert. It seems like we did it...The next morning I pee on the stick again - still positive. I get an order for an HCG - yup definitely pregnant. I get an appointment with an Ob-Gyn, and I get discharged from the fertility clinic - seems we won't be needing their help after all...WE DID IT! WE DID IT ALL ON OUR OWN!

So we are now 8 weeks - and although I am now constantly nauseous and gagging intermittently I am beyond happy, we both are. it is such a miracle. I am of course still nervous, but my HCG is great and last week we had our first ultrasound and there it was a tiny little peanut with a super incredible heart beat. It is so freaking excited....So not only did we bring great memories back from New York City we brought home a baby....So miracles do happen in NYC! And this will be the last Fertility Schmertility posting...now it will be a monthly update as we progress through this amazing adventure.

Oh - as for the mind body stuff - yeah - I lasted that first week and never went back - so not my thing...

New York New York

The following took place in February 19th - 21st
This was my first trip to NYC - we went down to see Lynn off on her year long MSF adventure in India. I was quite intrigued by the city - and even walking around on my own I didn't feel threatened at all - nothing like Philly. We stayed at the New Yorker - got a sweet heart deal on the room even though it was Fashion Week - bless this crappy economy!
I saw the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Broadway, Times Square, Central Park, 30 Rock - took lots of pictures....We had pizza at Lombardi's the first pizzeria in NYC - it was so fab....
And we got spend time with Lynn who we will both miss like crazy, but we are so incredibly proud of her for doing this amazing thing.