8 Weeks 1 Day

Below is the scan picture from 8 Weeks 1 Day:



And here is the email that I got with the scan picture:

Vijay,

The surrogate and the baby are doing good.
CRL - Crown Rump Length -1.74CM
GA - Gestational Age 8W 1D
Heart rate – 150-170 BPM

I wrote them an email after I got the above email and asked for the Estimated Delivery Date and here is the email I got back: (I did not ask the sex of the baby, but I got the below reply, I think they were trying to anticipate what I would ask next)

As of now, the EDD is mid-August.
As per Indian law, we will not be able to tell you if it’s a male or a female baby until birth.

Vijays Daignosis

I know I have been promising to post the medical report on the disease I had. I found it crazy boring and inclusive at best without a positive diagnosis even after the biopsy.

Here is the full report:

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Pregnancy - Positive!!

We have been doing this Invitro stuff as most of you guys know, and we had a few failures on the way. The first time it did not work, I took it extremely hard. I tend to internalize pain and keep my feelings to myself, but I can tell you that I was so positive that it would work, I had crazy hopes of success on that first try.

But after a few failures, I would not even bother with the results, especially recently.

On Dec 17th 2011 (My Birthday) we had another procedure done:

Here was the email:

The embryo transfer was done today into 1 surrogate with 4 good embryos.

On Jan 3rd I got this email below:

We wish you a happy new year!
And we have got good news for you.
Your surrogate tested positive for the pregnancy test.
The Beta HCG values are now 131.3 mIU/mL.

You would guess that I would have been crazy excited, but I was not. The very first time we had done the invitro process it was also a successful pregnancy, but it ended up being an empty sac. So even at this point I was like, whatever.

So this morning I get this email:

Congratulations!
There was a heart beat found on scan done today!
There is a single gestational sac.
The CRL - Crown Rump Length- is 0.76 cm
The heart rate is 150-170 bpm
The gestational age is 6 weeks 4 days.
I have attached the report.

Here is the picture they sent us:



So here we are. A success, and you know what I am feeling. Excited and scared then melancholy. I feel like at this age, I am being very selfish in having a kid. By the time I am 67 my kid will finally be 20. 67 is so old.

I always had a sense that I would die early and had accepted that and like a self fulling prophecy I had not done anything to change that.

But now that I am having a kid, I think that I really need to get my act together and get my blood sugar under control and the weight under control. All the businesses are doing excellent and the kid should have plenty of money, but I think having me around to help out will make a big difference.

So here we are. If everything goes according to plan there will be a new baby in the house at the end of July or 1st few weeks of August.

Yes, the feelings are Excited and SO SO SCARED.

Most Popular Song in India Currently

This was a cute song, and is the top song in India currently. It is actually in Tamil, but it really is mostly in English: