Doctor Dad Makes an Appearance

Well, at least his name made an appearance on my phone.  He finally got back to me!  I texted him Monday and even though he said he'd call me later, he never did!  I didn't want to be THAT girl and harass him with follow-up texts and luckily my 3 day wait paid off.  He called and I got to share the good news with him.  Since he was the one that did the HSG test, I'm going to go ahead and give him lots of credit for opening up the path that led to my BFP.  He gave me the run down on beginning pregnancy stuff (what not to eat, what to expect in the up coming weeks and why) and asked where I stand with appointments at the fertility doctor's office. 

I told him that I have my first OB ultrasound scheduled for August 19th, the first day of school.  He then looked at my timeline and since today marks 5 weeks from my last period, he says I can have an ultrasound next Thursday/Friday and not have to wait another weekend.  I explained that with the doctor's schedule and my needing a late afternoon appointment since we have teacher meetings all next week, that it had to be that Monday.  Well, of course, he said that they can get me in their office Thursday or Friday.  He will be out of town, but Midwife Mom will be there.  Within an hour (before my husband could even respond to my text about what afternoon worked better for him) the nurse from the office called to schedule my appointment.  Boy, do I feel like I'm a celebrity.  I don't even have to call in to schedule my own appointments--they call me!! So a week from today I will get the first pictures and hopefully see a strong heartbeat.

I'm dying to fly home to tell me parents, but flights have been so expensive that I've been putting it off and waiting for them to drop.  I have 2.5 days off of work right around week 9, and when you add the weekend to that it really is a nice long trip.  Both of my siblings live elsewhere, so we are mostly together for family events like weddings, birthdays, and/or vacations and I really haven't had any alone time with my parents since I got married 3 years ago.  I'm not looking forward to the expensive trip, but my husband is completely understanding and says it's totally worth it.  Plus, we get to tell his parents when we get back so I think he's really excited for that.  I've planned out ways to tell all the major people in our life except for his parents, so I've got to get to thinking on that.  I had an idea, but I could tell that Mr. Desperate wasn't so crazy about it.  He came up with a way, so maybe I will let him tell him.  They are his parents, after all!  All my ways involve gifts/physically presented objects, so I don't' want them to feel left out when he literally just tells them (even though it would be in a cute way). 

The coolest thing that I learned today was that they can now do blood work at 10 weeks (when they test for Down Syndrome among other things) to find out the gender.  I don't want to find out, but my husband does.  Since he had to deal with all my Clomid mood swings and my crazy obsessive pee sticks everywhere, I think I will let him have this one.  My current guess is that it's a boy.

And speaking of celebrities... my father-in-law called this afternoon and asked if I like Justin Timberlake.  So random.  And YES, OF COURSE!  Someone gave him 2 tickets to the Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z Concert next week.  I'm so excited!!  He also said that if we get there early we can meet them.  I'm not sure why he thinks that, because the picture of the tickets he sent me just appear to be normal tickets, but that would be awesome!!  My sister, who lives in Atlanta, is waiting for my husband to say he doesn't want to go.  She is all ready to buy a ticket and go with me!  Don't worry... he said she could buy a ticket and we'd sneak her in to meet them with us.  :)