1. Spiked, presumably for unsavory purposes (spearing the cake-fed babies of the aristocracy?)
2. Horse
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Ultrasound is tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.
If the news is good, it will be followed by a 1-hr glucose tolerance test, cervix hunt/routine exam, Let’s Keep This One Alive discussion, and “Lovenox injection teaching.”
If the news is bad, it will be followed by heavy drinking and a D&C. Or, more probably, the excruciating wait for a follow-up/confirmation ultrasound (during which I’ll continue to be ill, thanks to embryonic spite), AND THEN the aforementioned heavy drinking and D&C.
Let’s all hope for good news, shall we?
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Every available appendage is crossed.
Hoping for good news! And wondering about the life sized horse lamp… and wondering why I’d like one for myself.
Having recently done the Lovenox, the heavy drinking and the D&C… I am wishing you GOOD NEWS all the way. Good luck!!
You bet, good luck! That horse lamp is freaking weird. And yet attractive. Except for the lampshade.
I have been praying for you, lady! With that embryo incapacitating my favorite blogger, the LEAST that he or she can do is have the decency to stick around the requisite 40 weeks. Or FINE, we would settle for 36…or 32. Whatever the case, your uterus doesn’t rent out space for free, and that thing better know it’s place!
(But seriously, I am praying that all goes well tomorrow!)
keeping my fingers crossed for good news!
Yes, all of me is rooting for good news. Unless we have gotten the superstitious route and by my guarding against the negative or including it as an option I can help prevent the gods from smiting our foolish little aspirations.
Good thoughts.
I’m hoping that embryo is a party animal wearing a lampshade on its head, like the finest equine illumination.
Hoping hoping hoping hoping hoping hoping hoping!!
Will be thinking of you tomorrow, Alexa. I was in nearly this exact situation on Tuesday and am still in shock to have gotten good news. Now, of course, I wait with bated breath until this coming Tuesday, hoping for a repeat and fearing every twinge (don’t get me started on the effing spotting – heparin is so much fun! May Lovenox be much less so with that for you). All your symptoms sound like excellent signs (I’d gladly take some of your reassuring nausea if I could), so I will hope for you as I know it is really impossible to be entirely optimistic at this stage.
I hope neither of us will be drinking anything intoxicating for a good ‘nother 35 or so weeks!
How exciting and terrifying! I still consider one of the most memorable moments of my surprise natural pregnancy was that first u/s and after worrying they would find nothing for so many weeks, when I asked the tech if she could see anything, she said, “yes, I see the baby and a strong heartbeat”. Start the waterworks! Hoping you have the same experience!
Hoping so very much for good news.
All good vibes for you and the uterus made of win!
What that second picture needs is another horse looking on disapprovingly and saying “Bruce, you are drunk.”
And GOOD LUCK tomorrow!
Bwa ha
Okay. That was hilarious!
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Your comment font makes my heart look all squashed and weird! This was not the intent. I am amending it to send you un-squished, very sincere love (with only a moderate amount of weirdness).
Sending good wishes your way!! Loving Nablopomo so far :)
Yes, let’s. Good, good, good news. Yes.
That horse lamp is the stuff my nightmares are made of, thanks for sharing. Presumably it was breathtaking in person.
Here’s hoping that tomorrow’s heavy drinking is of the celebratory kind and involves sparking cider. I’ll be desperately stalking your blog for the news. (Nope, not too proud to admit that.)
Fingers crossed.
First and most importantly, I wish you all kinds of good luck tomorrow. And congratulations! (I am a faithful reader, and I click on your site nearly every day even when you aren’t, well, posting very much, just in case there may be a crumb or two. And yes I know there is some techy thing that tells you when people have posted, but I am not so very techy. Anyway, I have checked in several times over the past few days; but all that has shown up on my screen has been the “My Mother Would Be Proud” (or something similar). Until today. And I was very confused as to how we went from lamps to ultrasounds….but now I see many posts had failed to load for me. No idea why. Anyway, boring, boring, boring — but your news is anything but boring. Best of luck.)
Thinking of you! Sending tons of positive thoughts your way.
Very much hoping.
I shall (hope, that is)! And the horse photo looks perfect for one of those “nom nom nom” annotations saying something slightly bete noir.
OK, Horse makes for a hilarious lamp. The lamp shade looks disproportionately small.
I can’t tell you the degree that I will be pulling for you and that little bean that you are hosting and hoping all is exactly as it should be.
Looking forward to your good news.
Hoping and praying with all my heart for good news. You deserve it!
Joining the hopeful crowd with firmly crossed appendages! Will be thinking of you all tomorrow.
Sending good thoughts your way, furiously.
Speaking from my own infertility/pregnancy experiences, feeling so sick that you don’t want to move was a very good sign for me!
I am definitely hoping for good news! I’ve got lots of things crossed.
All fingers crossed. If I had extra fingers, I’d cross them as well. Of course, that would make me a freak, but a hopeful freak.
I hope to hear goodgoodgood news!!
So Lucky!! I will check back at 3:00 p.m. Central Standard Time and then every hour (who are we kidding? Probably more like every 15 minutes.) after that. Meanwhile, hoping you get to see that little, magical flicker of a heartbeat on the screen!
Luck, love, prayers, wishes, good vibes, shiny-happy feelings, whatever it takes. C’mon universe!
Praying for good news.
Good luck, I hope your next drink is champagne in 35 weeks!
I’ll be sending a few prayers heavenward for you.
I am sending you good thoughts RIGHT NOW. Keeping everything crossed for you. XOXO
Thinking about you right now!
Hoping as hard as I possibly can for only the best of news.
Literally biting my nail as we await word. Between your ultrasound results and a friend’s beta results, I am a ball of nervous energy. Channeling it into positive news from both of you.
Oh Alexa, I am hoping for good news for you today. I am finding myself to be in nearly the same position, sort of pregnant, naturally and surprisingly, after it took a year of fertility treatments to have our two year old. I am 6weeks 4 days and waiting for my ultrasound on Monday. I hope that we both see beautiful heartbeats!