Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The weeks of firsts...

So, this past week, here are some milestones:

1. A slept. In the night. Twice. Last night he went to bed at 7:15 and woke at 5:00, right after my alarm went off. The night before, he went down at 7:30 and woke about 3:30, but I think it had something to do with my spazzy wake up and run to see if the baby is breathing stampede that happened. I woke around 3:30 and jumped out of bed because, well, because this was not normal. Just when I thought I was going to lose it from one more night of deprivation....

2. Spotting...ahem. Yup. A couple of days ago, I felt kinda crampy PMS-y, but I thought maybe it was just my digestive tract working something out. I don't think today's spot is a period yet, but I am pretty sure that it has something to do with how long A went without BFing last night---I read that the absence of suckling makes prolactin levels fall, and that could be the source of bleeding. Maybe I'll be fertile and get that magical Hail Mary/Urban Myth pregnancy that happens (although I know this can happen--fellow blogger, M, had this! It's true! Ah!)

3. FET talk. Already you ask? Yes, and the discussion happened before he slept so much these past two nights. We are shooting for late June in the hopes we can time the baby to come right before spring semester ends in 2012. I can take the summer off without having to use sick time (which I currently have none). As much as I kinda don't want to do this again right now, it isn't about me. I want A to have a sibling, and we want them to be close in age if we can swing it. We have 5 frozen blasts, all in pretty good condition. We have already decided that this FET is a SET (single embryo transfer).

4. Three (!!) more weeks of class then I am off for 5 glorious weeks before the Spring semester. I can't wait to have 100 percent of A every day! I miss him when I am at school.

5 comments:

Jill said...

Oh, it's so great when they start really sleeping! Enjoy!

erika said...

I am sooo envious of your luck getting him sleep through the night!:) Great job!
FET next summer? I think 1.5 years is a good gap between the siblings. I like your plan.

Anonymous said...

It is so awesome that he is sleeping through the night! What a great baby.
FET plans! So exciting- I think it sounds like a good plan.

AL said...

hooray for sleep! I've heard that sleeping through the night causes period to return, too.

wow, I think if we had frosties we would be talking about trying again too. Right now, we're just going to reevaluate in May when Cheeks is a year.

quadmom said...

Yay sleep! =)

Wow, an FET planned, awesome! I will look forward to following your journey. Ours was going to be a SET, but it turns out the clinic didn't freeze mine one per vial like I asked so our last 2 are frozen together. Terrifying ...

Hope A continues to sleep well!