So many things happened in our baby journey in February. First thing first, I was naive to think that the painful progesterone oil injection is over at the embryo transfer day. Well, it continues until today, and we have absolutely no idea when it will stop! We got the tiny embryo transferred on January 22 afternoon, which is super quick and easy. The embryo looks so perfect on the screen, and they gave us a picture! I was tucked in bed for the rest of the day, and a piece of Lady M cake was brought to bed 🙂

The 9-day wait wasn’t too bad, we were both entering the crazy busy phase at work, and being busy definitely kept our mind off the topic. My bloodworm to confirm pregnancy was scheduled on the next Friday, and the night before I bought a home pregnancy test because well, if it’s negative I already know beforehand and won’t be too sad tomorrow. I took the test after coming back from work. It was positive. Our hearts filled with joy. The test on Friday came back positive. Another bloodwork was done two days later, to make sure all numbers double. And they did 🙂 We’re off to a great start!

Since then, we have a weekly appointment for bloodwork and ultrasound. February 19 was the very first time we heard the baby’s heartbeat. I wish we have some time to listen to it longer and to share our feelings, but you know how busy New York is. The dr gave us 10 seconds it felt like. Everything was just fine like that until 2 days later, on Friday early morning, I bled. I know the feeling and what it meant…My heart skipped a beat. I told Jon in tears. We lay in bed trying not to freak out and wait until 7am to go see the doctor. He did an urgent ultrasound and told us “you did not miscarry”. The baby’s heartbeat is still there. He said spotting is very common, if it’s only spotting then he’s not worried. Come back if I have heavy bleeding. We left, didn’t feel super assured, but told ourself as long as it’s not bright red bleeding it’ll be okay.

My dr is right (well, they always are!), I keep spotting on and off, until today. At the 8-week ultrasound on February 28, we started to see the baby a bit clearer, and got a picture to bring home! Both parents are probably more excited than us. Right now, there’s nothing we can do to stop the spotting, rather than trying to tell ourselves that is not a bad sign. More to come in March!