From the beginning of this whole Journey

Well basically, Derek and i have been married for almost 7 years (December 29, 2001) and we have been together for 11 years (July 1, 1997). It has been a bumpy ride, well very bumpy but when is it not.

I am a private person and keep lots to myself since most of the time it's nobodies business but, what's the point anymore.

Sometime in February or March we decided we would take the classes to become foster parents. We figured we would never have any children so we decided to get some another way. But we went to the training and the home studies and all we needed was to get the dogs and cats shot records together when some how I turned up pregnant.
I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). Though not often heard of, about 10% of women have it. It is more common than most think and also often misdiagnosed but come July 7th I took a test and for sure it was positive.

So I went to the doctor and requested a blood HCG test (blood pregnancy test) but it came back negative.
So I was a little confused because I had continued to take home pregnancy test that continued to come back positive.
I went to an urgent care type center in the area and they did a quantitative and a qualitative blood HCG test as well as a urine pregnancy test.

You can see the results of the urine test but, then again the blood tests (both of them) came back negative. I asked for the exact amount of HCG that was in the blood, which is what one of the tests is used for and it was <2. href="http://s312.photobucket.com/albums/ll340/duffeygal/?action=view&current=5wks.jpg" target="_blank">
What you are looking at is a gestational sac and yolk sac measuring in at 5 weeks.
We had no idea how I was getting these crazy test results.
We scheduled another appointment for two more weeks later and saw something even better

That's right, a baby measuring at 7 weeks and 3 days with a heartbeat. 156BPM.
I was so relieved. I am sure Derek was too. I had already told him that if something happened with this pregnancy I was not going to do all of this again.
Since all of this we have had two more doctor's appointment and all has been going well.
So far I am down 25 pounds, probably due to all the morning sickness, which by the way is a false statement that should be changed to morning, noon, and night sickness.

We are really looking forward to our next appointment, which is on Monday November 3rd at 3:00pm. It will be our anatomy scan and if Derek and his mom and my mom get their way, they will get to see the gender. I don't care about the gender but I told Derek that nobody is finding out what it is unless he is there. I think his mom will make sure he is off. She is obsessed with knowing the gender.
As of now my due date is March 23, 2009 (all dates subject to change).