7w4d

Thanks for all the congrats, peeps. :)

I need to say something here. For my friends reading this who are still in the TTC trenches: if you feel that reading my blog will be too difficult, and you need to skip it, or even want to stop following entirely, please know that I am not at all offended. We all need to do what we need to do in order to take care of ourselves. Capiche?

Ok, of course, you know I'm all panicked again. I woke up early this morning to a searing cramp in my uterus. Enough to take my breath away. I didn't know what to do (i.e., go to an ER?) because it happened just once, plus I'm not bleeding. So I e-mailed the IVF nurse, even though she won't get the message until Monday. And then I drank three cups of water, ate breakfast, and went back to sleep for a few hours. What else could I do?

I still don't understand, incidentally, why my RE says that I would be at 6w6d today. He said he wasn't basing it on embryo measurements. It sounded as though he was basing the first day as the day after transfer, which I don't get, since his EDD doesn't line up with the online IVF due date calculators. So that's why I'm keeping the original due date. I don't think it matters, anyway.