Why oh why must they torment us with a full bladder rule for ultrasounds when bladder control is at its weakest?
Waiting for my first trimester screening now. 20 minutes past appointment time. 4 women who came in after me already went in. And I got here early to do the paperwork well before my appointment time.
I'm not that bothered by the fact that they're late except I REALLY need to pee. Like afraid I will pee during the ultrasound. Oh my.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
10 week appointment update
Appointment went well. The reception area is a bit decrepit, and the wait was forever (I had a long wait in the room too), but the time with the doctor was actually okay. The exam room was clean, she explained everything that was going on, and asked several times if I had any questions. She's a bit brusque, but that doesn't actually bother me - I'm much more likely to be bothered by fluff and too much peppiness. I will still check out another OB or two, but I will go ahead and schedule my next appointment - I can always change it if I find a doctor who is a better fit for me. I will have my NT scan sometime in the next three weeks - it's actually at a separate ultrasound facility so that works.
News from the appointment:
Fibroid is apparently the reason that I'm looking so pregnant. Exact words from the doctor: "Whoa! That's a big fibroid! Looks like 5 months pregnant!" She talked with me about the potential risks with the fibroid: pre-term labor, needed c-section, possible degeneration of the fibroid which would be extremely painful (like appendicitis). But there's nothing you can do but wait and see, and if something happens, we deal with it then. There is so much waiting in this baby-making game. :)
TMI alert: apparently my cervix is long and closed, and that is good? Closed I get. I don't really understand about long, but I'll take good. I like good.
AND ... I heard the heartbeat!
I wasn't holding out any hope since I'm exactly 10 weeks today (although I look twice that!), so even when she said we would listen, I was thinking we wouldn't be able to hear anything and I was trying to psych myself up so I would be okay with it without freaking out. So she has the doppler on my belly and I hear the swishy sound (apparently the background noise of my uterus), and the doctor says: "There's the baby's heartbeat. Do you hear it?" And I'm like, "No." What I was hearing was definitely not the baby's heartbeat. So now I'm losing faith in the doctor. But she perseveres. After what feels like 20 minutes - which was really probably only about 2.5 - with her face really intense, gaze focused sternly at the wall (why the wall? No idea), she says: "There it is!" And there it was - my baby's heartbeat! Wow. In some ways it's a little creepy - there's a little person with a heartbeat inside. It's totally different to hear the heartbeat than to just see it on the screen (maybe some part of me thought someone was photo shopping a baby for my sonogram pics? I don't know what nonsense goes through my ridiculous mind). It's really real. And because of the timing, I will have 2 more appointments in the next 4 weeks - the NT scan, which will give me more pictures of my baby, and my next OB appointment 4 weeks from today. So 2 more opportunities for reassurance, and then I'll be in trimester #2!
News from the appointment:
Fibroid is apparently the reason that I'm looking so pregnant. Exact words from the doctor: "Whoa! That's a big fibroid! Looks like 5 months pregnant!" She talked with me about the potential risks with the fibroid: pre-term labor, needed c-section, possible degeneration of the fibroid which would be extremely painful (like appendicitis). But there's nothing you can do but wait and see, and if something happens, we deal with it then. There is so much waiting in this baby-making game. :)
TMI alert: apparently my cervix is long and closed, and that is good? Closed I get. I don't really understand about long, but I'll take good. I like good.
AND ... I heard the heartbeat!
I wasn't holding out any hope since I'm exactly 10 weeks today (although I look twice that!), so even when she said we would listen, I was thinking we wouldn't be able to hear anything and I was trying to psych myself up so I would be okay with it without freaking out. So she has the doppler on my belly and I hear the swishy sound (apparently the background noise of my uterus), and the doctor says: "There's the baby's heartbeat. Do you hear it?" And I'm like, "No." What I was hearing was definitely not the baby's heartbeat. So now I'm losing faith in the doctor. But she perseveres. After what feels like 20 minutes - which was really probably only about 2.5 - with her face really intense, gaze focused sternly at the wall (why the wall? No idea), she says: "There it is!" And there it was - my baby's heartbeat! Wow. In some ways it's a little creepy - there's a little person with a heartbeat inside. It's totally different to hear the heartbeat than to just see it on the screen (maybe some part of me thought someone was photo shopping a baby for my sonogram pics? I don't know what nonsense goes through my ridiculous mind). It's really real. And because of the timing, I will have 2 more appointments in the next 4 weeks - the NT scan, which will give me more pictures of my baby, and my next OB appointment 4 weeks from today. So 2 more opportunities for reassurance, and then I'll be in trimester #2!
Waiting waiting waiting
(written at 4:15 pm ... got locked in my phone's cyberspace)
10 weeks on the nose for me today and sitting in the waiting room waiting to see the doctor. I don't have an OB already do I'm trying to find one - and realizing I do not have a good strategy. I've been waiting for an hour (45 minutes past my appointment time), a lady came in 30 minutes after me and already went in, and this office is not impressive. I'm already here and took the time off work do I'm going to wait, but I think I will need to keep looking.
I really wish there was some way to be automatically assured that everything's okay with the baby. I get so nervous. And even if I wanted to rent a Doppler I couldn't use it yet. I'm hoping to feel more confident once we make it to the second trimester - right on Thanksgiving.
And now I'm hungry. Uh oh.
Some good news: my blood pressure is 107 over 75! I cannot remember the last time it was normal! (And yes, I know pregnancy lowers your blood pressure). Maybe it's also the change of job? I always swore that my pressure couldn't come down until I changed jobs. 😀
10 weeks on the nose for me today and sitting in the waiting room waiting to see the doctor. I don't have an OB already do I'm trying to find one - and realizing I do not have a good strategy. I've been waiting for an hour (45 minutes past my appointment time), a lady came in 30 minutes after me and already went in, and this office is not impressive. I'm already here and took the time off work do I'm going to wait, but I think I will need to keep looking.
I really wish there was some way to be automatically assured that everything's okay with the baby. I get so nervous. And even if I wanted to rent a Doppler I couldn't use it yet. I'm hoping to feel more confident once we make it to the second trimester - right on Thanksgiving.
And now I'm hungry. Uh oh.
Some good news: my blood pressure is 107 over 75! I cannot remember the last time it was normal! (And yes, I know pregnancy lowers your blood pressure). Maybe it's also the change of job? I always swore that my pressure couldn't come down until I changed jobs. 😀
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