Congrats!

CONGRATULATIONS!! Reading your post made me want to cry! I love happy endings! Good luck and hope all turns out well.

Sounds like you of all people deserve much happiness.
I wish you the the best!

I read your whole post and wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS! On your successful conception, on your weight loss... everything! Excellent!!!!

Thanks everyone!

Wow, Shmead, amazing! Congratulations to you! You are an inspiration, and I am in awe of all that you have done. Thank you so so so much for sharing your journey. I wish you and your family every happiness!

Congratulations ~ you have been through so much and I am so excited for you!!

Thanks for sharing your story, and MUCH congratulations!!

Congratulations! Thank you for sharing your story, I know what it's like to finally get that line after waiting what seems like an eternity (it took us 7 years to get our first). I'm very happy for you and your hubby and wish you a happy and healthy nine months.

Quick update: I had my first ultrasound today and everything looked great: good size, good heartrate, good position. I feel like I've spent the last month holding my breath, terrified that I would go in today and find the baby stopped growing/heart never started/whatever. I haven't had many symptoms, which is just one more reason to worry! I haven't even been posting here (or elsewhere) much because all I can think about is baby, and that's pretty boring.

Anyway, I'm breathing again now. Stuff could still go wrong, but I liked seeing that heartbeat.

I'm glad to hear that everything is going well and that you and baby are healthy! I can't wait to start trying in November/December. I watch a ton of Baby Story shows and One Born Every Minute and it drives my husband nuts.

Shmead, I missed this post from earlier this month -- thanks, Emme, for bumping it up with yours -- and am happy to read of your good ultrasound & that the baby-growing project is going along quite well.

I'll take a monomaniac Shmead over a complete lack of Shmead, any day.

I've got a pessimistic imagination & so when people go silent, I worry that stuff is going wrong.

I'm glad you have checked in to tell us all is well.

Congrats! I had a lot of fertility issues myself and it's such a blessing when things finally go right. Not that I ever stopped worrying mine you lol

hope things continue to go well!

Thanks for all the kind words. Everything still looks great, but I am not sure I'll really relax until we send this one off to college.