And the cravings hit.

I had a dream last night. A very vivid one. One that involved all my senses.
I don't remember most of the dream, but the bit I remember is still clear in my mind.
I was back in Singapore,
and I was feasting on fried carrot cake (black with LOTS of egg and chilli),
sambal kangkong,
and salted vege and duck soup from my favourite stall at East Coast Park.
I woke up at about 3am, needing desperately to pee,
and HUNGRY.
It took me at least half an hour to get back to sleep and I had to get up at 5.30am,
because I could not get the taste of the food out of my freaking mind!
I WANT MY FRIED CARROT CAKE!!!
I dunno how I'm gonna survive through the next 8 months if I'm gonna crave food I can't have like this.
boo-hoo.
The idea of craving for old chang kee curry puff and hokkien prawn mee and mee soto is scary.
Sigh.
I can only say, poor husband, poor me, and poor Baby A (for being deprived what he/she wants to eat).





Hey there little one,
Do mummy a favour and request for food that we have access to here in Melbourne please?
I promise I will let you eat chocolate whenever you want if you do that for me.
Promise!
Love,
Mummy




Ok on to something else before I drive myself bloody insane with the thought of food.
I just called the GP this morning, to get my blood test results.
HCG levels = 14000 at what I calculated as 5W1D.
WOAH!
When I googled HCG levels, I got-


REFERENCE INTERVALS FOR b-HCG IN PREGNANCY


2-3    10-70
3-4    10-750
4-5    200-7000
5-6    200-32,000
6-8    4,000-150,000
8-12  64,000-210,000
14     14,000-62,000
15    12,000-70,000
16    9,000-56,000
17    8,000-56,000
18    8,000-58,000


The doctor only said that this indicates I'm in my 2nd-3rd month of pregnancy,
but can't tell me more until after the ultrasound this saturday.
I know I'm definitely in my 2nd month, but not possibly in my 3rd!

From what I can gather, there are 3 possibilities here:
1. My dates are wrong and I'm further along than I thought
2. We've got a crazy baby who is going overboard with the HCGs to make sure he/she gets to stay in there
3. We've got more than 1 bun in the oven (which would maybe explain the figure that's more than double the normal ones)
There's actually one more possibility, which is a molar pregnancy, which is not good, but so damn rare that I'm not even gonna bother thinking about it.

So now I'm really really happy, because such high numbers mean a lower miscarriage risk.
It's still there and I'm FULLY aware of it, but I'm slightly relieved :)
Either one of the three possibilities I'm fine with, although the thought of having more than 1 baby is a little daunting.
But we would be somewhat prepared for it I guess, since it was a known side effect of Clomid that we were already warned about.
Now I can't wait for this Saturday's scan to see if we can find Baby A's heartbeat,
and to find out whether we have Baby As instead.
Most importantly, Baby A (or As) need to be healthy and that's all I ask for now :)


I feel like I'm going crazy!
But in a good way ;)
Oh I'm so excited!!!