6.5 Weeks Pregnant!

(This is an old post written when she was 6.5 weeks. This will give you an idea of how the process started. I will also let Beth tell her side of things)

Yes, you read that right. Beth is 6.5 Weeks pregnant! Well by the time you read this, she will be at least 12 weeks. I wanted to provide a bit of hindsight of our experience the last couple weeks. For you moms, you may be able to relate or maybe not at all. This is how it all began....

After talking about starting a family and the process, when we returned from our lovely Croatia trip we decided to try to make it happen. Beth got on the ball immediately by calling around different sperm banks/fertility clinics in London in search of black sperm. Crazy enough, we picked one less than 10 minutes away from our flat. Total number of black sperm donors willing to donate their 'juice' to lesbians.......TWO! Candidate 1 - medium dark toned, 5-11, cartoonist, enjoys sports, chillin' with friends, and food. Candidate 2- medium toned, 5-8, carpenter. We chose candidate #1 due to height! We'll see just how artistic our kid is. But they better be a darn athlete!!!

Once our donor was chosen, the week before the insemination, Beth had to stick herself with a massive needle filled with drugs. I guess the drugs were to make her follicles bigger. It wasn't very much fun watching her stick herself in the stomach each night at the same time for a week. It made me feel so happy that I was not going through this. (Don't get me wrong, I still felt bad that she was doing it to herself though.) The day of insemination, I was really nervous. I didn't know what to expect and no one really told us about this part of the 'baby making' process. You always hear the stories after one is pregnant and the labor pains.

We sat in the room of the doctor's office staring at one another waiting for the doctor of insemination to arrive. When he comes into the room, he kindly introduces himself and immediately gives us the stats of the sperm. '10% increased mobility. 23 million spermies.' 23 million??? And all it takes is one. The doctor even showed us the container the spermies were hanging out in. When first looking at the container of spermies, well, it's not really a container. It looks more like a test tube....a test tube full of water. And it looks like 4 drops of water were placed in the test tube. Can't believe there are 23 million in there!!! All it takes is one.

All it takes is one. That's all I could keep thinking right after the insemination. We waited two weeks to take pregnancy test #1. Well, almost two weeks. It was more like 1.5 weeks because we just couldn't wait any longer. On the first day, the test result was a bit faint but it looked like it was telling us the test was positive. Day 2, test result still positive but nearly as faint as the first one. We started to get excited but realized that we shouldn't get our hopes up only to be disappointed. Day 3, we used a digital pregnancy test so there was no confusion. After waiting a few minutes on a Saturday morning, it reads ' pregnant 2-3 weeks'. Holy cow!!!!! Our life may be changing forever after today. The first person we tell is my sister Jasmine. It was about 1am in South Dakota and she was 'hanging' out with friends. ('Hanging out' really means drinking). She was a bit tipsy but not to the point to where she couldn't understand what was going on. We have mentioned this moment in our baby book. So when he or she asks who we first told, we'll proudly say Aunt Jasmine!

So, here we are. 6.5 weeks pregnant. The last couple weeks haven't been very fun for Beth. She has been sick ALL DAY long. Constant vomiting. And I mean constant. I have never felt so bad for her. To make matters worse, she has a chest infection that has lasted one week AND AND AND AND received a bite from something nasty because it left quite a mark. On the first day of observing the bite on her arm, it was swollen and red. Second day, it started to blister and was hard around the edges. Third day, the blisters have formed into one big bad boy that just needs to be popped. It is quite a nasty looking thing looking like a grape stuck to her tricep!!! Of course she wants to pop it but the GP said that she should let it take its natural form. The doctor did prescribe some anti-biotics for the bite and it started leaking today. Should be interesting to see how it turns out in the next couple days!!!