month 1-2

friday good day

today we had no kids. just getting our rooms summer-proofed. i came home to see my crib has arrived and my motherhood clothes! i was so excited! then when i turned around i see flowers and a card on the dining room table. you would cry if you read the card. i have such a wonderful hub. so my weekend has started off great! oh and in the motherhood stuff i got free nursing pads and coupons and a $20 gift card to snapfish. tomorrow bday party and sunday grad party! tonight is snuggle time! have a great one all!

14w

im officially outta the 1st trimester! weeeeeeeeee! ive been worrying myself this week with odd new pains and just at the point where symptoms fade and you dont feel much. tick tock. in 6 weeks we find out the sex... on my bday!!

so listen to this shit: health insurance for just me is currently $175 a month. guess how much it is for a family??? $850 a month!!!!!!!! that almost a whole paycheck. i mean seriously i feel like they might just be playing a joke on me. but no, its real. hopefully tysons horrible insurance that doesnt cover much is less. but im scared to change to his for future infertility stuff and all the sickness we always get. oh joy!

please consider signing this

Tax Credit Bill for Infertility Treatments introduced in the U.S. Senate

A bill to create a tax credit for the out-of-pocket costs associated with infertility medical treatment has been introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY). Aptly named the Family Act of 2011, S 965, this bill will potentially help thousands of people seek medical treatment that otherwise would be out of reach for them.

Write to your senator today to ask that they support this bill.

http://www.resolve.org/family-building-options/insurance_coverage/federal-laws.html

The Family Act of 2011, S 965

Key provisions of the bill:

• The Family Act covers the out-of-pocket costs associated with in vitro fertilization (IVF) including diagnostic tests, laboratory charges, professional charges, and medications for IVF.
• The Family Act covers the out-of-pocket costs of fertility preservation procedures if the man or woman is diagnosed with cancer and the cancer treatment or disease itself may result in infertility.
• The Family Act has a cost sharing provision allowing 50% of all applicable medical expenses to be covered up to a lifetime maximum of $13,360. You would need to have out-of-pocket costs totaling $26,720 to claim the entire credit in your lifetime.
• If you do not owe taxes in a particular year, do not owe enough taxes to use the whole credit, or do not reach the max amount in one tax year, it carries over to the next year for a max of five years after the first year you use the credit.
• The Family Act is available to couples filing jointly with adjusted gross incomes of less than $222,520, but the credit is smaller for those earning between $182,500 and $222,520

free bed!

if you know anyone who wants a full size bed and/or mattress, we are trying to get rid of ours fast! my mother in law wanted to buy our crib already this weekend so it will be coming very soon and i need to get that bed out of there fast! or if you know how to just get rid of a mattress let me know. i need it gone now :) thanks!

feeling good

i had an appt today and im feeling good. i met a new dr at the practice and tyson liked her b/c she is straight forward. this i am glad for b/c he has never said he likes any of our OBs. she first kinda went through things fast then when i told her this was my 5th pregnancy i got the sympathetic look and she talked to us very concerned for awhile. (i think my file says 'habitual aborter' but they dont actually look that ive had so many). so she said we could come back every 2 weeks like the original plan but i told her i was okay with every 3. i didnt tell her i have a doppler at home so i get to hear the heartbeat everyday to reassure myself :) she answered a lot of our questions about barnes and we are excited to deliver there. i mean it is the #8 ranked hospital in the U.S. so you cant get better, right? and i just cannot leave my drs there. last week i tried calling my old OB and looked into other ones in Springfield or Maryville and i cant find anyone who specializes in RPL. it makes me too nervous to go to someone else-especially with following pregnancies in the 1st trimester. i need that weekly extra over the top care.

oh and im so excited to be helping out with miscarriage research. i will donate extra blood when they take draws, donate fluid, blood, and placenta at delivery, donate cord blood, and donate products of miscarriage if that would happen and its not going to :) anything i can do to help them find some answers and treatment.

oh and i am officially done with prometrium today!! yikes! thats all for now. im ready for the weekend already!!! ive got a fun weekend ahead :) have a great week all!

1st look results

we got our results back from the 1st look. i freaked myself out at first b/c i knew the results were supposed to be in the 1,000's to be good and the first thing i read was chances of down's 1 in 759 and chance of trisomy 18/13 1 in 2,151. but then i reread it and that was based upon our age and history alone. yes we have a shitty history so it gave us a not so great number. on the next page our results with our age, history, and 1st look was less than 1 in 10,000 for both. yeeehaw! we already agreed to the quad screen which is just another blood test in a few weeks to back up these results, but i dont really think its needed now. oh well. we knew they would be just fine, but its still good to hear.

still waiting on summer.....