Without Pausing To Even Remove My Coat

OK.

Thumbs up.

Fine.

Good so far.

Sac measured about 6 weeks 3 days. Fetal whatsit measured 6w 1 day. About right by my hazy calculations. Cardiac movement seen but not really measurable due to the angle of things. Next ultrasound: one week from today (in the morning next time, this late afternoon crap was too hard on all of us).

I am pleased. I don't feel any closer to having a baby, but I feel infintesimally farther from having another miscarriage. For what that is worth.

Oh, and I cried in the waiting room. I brought my new Fine Cooking with me and was flipping though the various Spring menus when I turned to the page with the Korean-influenced pork on Asian slaw. Just as I was trying to decide if chopping all that cabbage was worth it, I began to weep. Noisily.

So much for cool.

Comments

[Elizabeth]

Thank goodness. I can stop refreshing now to see if there's news. I am so happy to hear that today's results were positive. Am thinking good thoughts for next week.

[EyesofGreen]

Awesome news! Can't wait for the next ultrasound!!! ;0)

[Liz]

Did anyone else hear my deep breath finally exhaling? Very happy to hear the news.

When is Patrick's next entry due?

[lindsey]

great news! happy to hear it.

[Jennifer]

Quiet smiles here.

[pixi]

Good, good, good. May your feelings continue to move in that direction (maybe even a bigger step) after your next ultrasound. Hoping hard for you.

[Vix]

Great news!

[Marsha]

Sometimes things get the better of us, especially when pondering cabbage.

If I were there I'd sit you down with a decaf chai latte and chop the veggies for you.

[Lisa Mae]

Oh thank goodness! I have a little deal with god that I get to have my baby if you get to have yours so I feel very encouraged now. And oh! So! Selfish!

[Arwen]

Good good good. Here's hoping for even better in a week.

[cherylc]

Yay. Good so far is good.

[runnerwoman]

Excellent! I think things seem to be on the right track.

[JK]

Whew! I can relax until next week... Go little one grow! Yay!

Thanks for letting us know quickly. Take your coat off and relax now as the comments roll in! :-)

[leslie]

Terrific! So stressy - I hope things continue to go well.

[Cris]

I'm so glad to hear quiet optimism and am hoping for a great scan next time.

I remember singing my way through all the songs in Moulin Rouge in order to not cry while naked on an exam table in an empty hospital room. Not really your option in the lobby, was it?

Is it totally selfish that the fact that you cried reassures me that I'm not a total wimp for not handling this with quite your aplomb?

[Amy/grrlTravels]

Thanks so much for the be-coated update. I needed to know. And I am so pleased for you. Crying when contemplating cabbage so does not mean that you are not cool. Really.

[Leggy]

I'm so glad it was a good report. Hope next week's u/s is just as good.
Not that I want you to weep in waiting rooms, but I was wondering how you could be so calm about all this. Given all you've been through, its a wonder you aren't weeping all over town.

[Alexa]

So far beyond delighted, I don't know what to say.

[Libby]

All right! I am glad everything look good.

[sally]

Congrats on passing this milestone! And what's the verdict on the influenced pork?

Well, you've done it once with Patrick. I'm confident that you can pull it off again.

Not to sound flip or anything. The above was my mantra while waiting for my own post-Patrick baby. #1 son's name really is Patrick. He was pregancy number 9. The second baby is now 22.

[Amber]

Ok, now I have to give the computer back to my husband so he can work. He was about to strangle me.

oh & a big congrats!

[Milenka]

Still sending positive thoughts, Julia. I hope the next week goes quickly and smoothly for your family.

[Cris]

Last poster without name - are you kidding me? 22? I'm telling you, I'm done after this one and its only pregnancy #7 (we hope) to get to baby #2. How did you not lose your mind?

[Jessica]

That's so awesome. Will continue to root, root, root for embryo.

[reenie]

Chris, I think she meant that her child is now 22 years old??

Julia - Yay! I was checking in one last time before leaving work. Just as I predicted - embryo measuring just right for dates. Now we play the waiting game. (Aww, the waiting game sucks - let's play Hungry, Hungry Hippos.) Seriously - the early weeks are so long, aren't they? I hope you have lots to fill your plate to distract you...perhaps this is why Patrick gave up his naps.

[Jessica]

All cool girls cry over cabbage. Didn't you know? And yah! for the good news. Keeping fingers crossed.

[map]

cabbage (or its preparation) should make you cry. Completely reasonable. It all sounds so good.

And I thought the unnamed poster had a second child who was now 22 years old, but maybe I'm wrong.

rooting.

[Ninotchka]

yay Julia! Continued prayers.

[Julia]

Who needs cool. Weeping is just fine.

[margalit]

Phew. As I exhale deeply, from holding my breath for days now, I want to wish you the best of luck and hope that next week's US shows even happier results, a strong heartbeat, and a healthy 8 more months. I'm praying doubletime for you, Julia.

[Amy]

Wonderful news. Will keep extremities crossed in anticipation of next week's u/s.

[Cathy]

Yay!

[Mir]

Hey, cabbage is emotional stuff. Everyone knows that.

[Toni]

You didn't hear? Crying is the new cool. We're all going to start copying you soon!

I'm going to keep my wonderful thoughts going...lots of wonderful, warm & fuzzy thoughts. Can you feel them?? :)

[daysgoby]

Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay!

(okay, gleeful noisiness over. Will re-arrange face and say good show, can't wait for next (great!)news!

[Owlhaven]

Great news!

[Hay Lady]

And exhale.

Phew.

So, if you aren't going to be giddy (completely understandable), I'll just be giddy over here for you.

Grow, baby, GROW!!!

[Anita]

((((Sigh)))))

And how could you not be so emotional.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lala]

You MAKE crying cool!! Good news, I'm glad. I'm hoping for more good news next week.

[Christine]

Good news, good news. The dogs are demanding dinner now (I held them off until after I checked up on you again). They're happy that next week's ultrasound is in the morning.

[jenny]

Oh thank god. NBHHY!!!! Part of my Gay Agenda is rooting for your little embryo, just so you know.

[Sarah]

Holding my breath for you.

[judy]

I'm glad to hear the appointment went well, but Korean-influenced pork on Asian slaw!

Is it a ground pork or like grilled pork slivers (Korean BBQ style)? I think you should try it out and let us all know (or post the recipe I'll try it out and let you know). Shit if I have to venture out with a sick Daniel to find Fine Cooking magazine - well that would just suck. The recipe just sounds so yummy (like southern BBQ heads to the far east).

Do you think perhaps the pregnancy hormones have something to do with the crying? Yeah, you're going thru a lot, but trying to remain cool with hormones that grow exponentially is rough (sorry, but not even you are that cool). It is sweet though.

OK, better go stop neglecting the sick Bubbas. It amazing how a sick kid sends all sanity resources to the farthest ends of the earth. No playgroup, because he'll get the other kids sick. No gym nursery, because he'll get the other kids sick. No emergency daycare, because he'll get the other kids sick. So me + Daniel + 4 walls, and we've past the 48 hour mark. I don't know which one of us is more unhappy about the situation.

So glad things are going well!
Judy

[Nancy]

Hooray!

I'm so pleased for you, even in measured, even tones. Seriously, I think you are the coolest, all the more for a little seriously-deserved, weeping over cabbage.

[sozzled]

v keen :-)

Personally I only ever buy the bags of shredded cabbage anymore, but I'm still all about crying where ever I might be.

[deborah]

Very, very, very cool.

[Jul]

Woo hoo! This calls for a cheer:

Go, Emby! Emby, go!
Divide and conquer!
Grow, grow, grow!

Make some organs!
Have some yolk sac!
Baby, shake that microscopic back!

[andrea]

Ohhhhhh, there there Julia. You can cry on our collective shoulders any time. Congrats on the great u/s.
((hugs)),
a.

[kimberly]

Woo hoo! I'm sure you're not the first person to cry over cabbage chopping.