3 weeks and 5 days

Gosh I have such a long way to go! Yesterday was such and exhilarating and exhausting day...but it was definitely one of the happiest days of my life.

Thus far I am feeling a little tired. Yesterday I started having these weird growing pain type cramps...which eventually spread into my lower back. It was a dull, persistent, annoying-as-all-hell ache. It got stronger at the night went on, but this AM I woke up and they were gone. Of course, as soon as I got into work this morning I was googling lower back pain in early pregnancy. And there it was, all over the google, as very normal. So, I feel better. I'll mention it to the RE nurses tomorrow if it happens again but for now I am hoping they stay away!

I think I'm already having the start of food aversions. I usually love my balance bar and cup of joe (decaf, of course) in the morning. But, today I could barely eat the entire balance bar and dumped pretty much my entire cup of coffee down the drain. I wondered if I was imagining it, since I'm so early on, but figured that I doubt I would put in the effort to make an entire cup of coffee, only to just dump it down the drain.

I go in for my 2nd beta tomorrow morning and am hoping and praying that my numbers double. My 1st beta was 68.5 which the RE nurse told me was very good. According to my own research, 68.5 is great for only 11 DPO. Now lets just hope it doubles. When it does (I am not going to say if) we will tell Chris' family. He wanted to wait while I elected to tell my parents, sis, and BF yesterday. I'll have my 1st u/s late next week....I should be around 5 weeks. Not far along enough for a heartbeat, but we should be able to see a sac. We are so excited!

Oh and one more thing. When we went out to PF Chang's about 3 weeks ago, Chris got a fortune cookie that said "Your present plans are going to succeed." I immediately stuck it in my wallet and have kept it with me ever since!