Little Blob

This pregnancy I have been doing really well with relaxing and leaving the well-being of my little blob up to Heavenly Father. There has only been a few times when I became stressed or fearful of the future, but they came at understandable times.

The day of our ultrasound I was getting more and more nervous. The morning started off differently than planned. I had an emergency visit with the nurse for a possible kidney infection. Luckily, if I do have one it is a mild case and I have now been put on new antibiotics with instructions to go to the ER immediately if I develop a fever.

Also, morning sickness is in full swing (I've had morning sickness since week 5) and I haven't been able to drink water without feeling really sick, so I was put on Zofran. Hopefully it works but apparently my insurance won't cover it without my doctors saying if it is necessary and we haven't called the doctors back yet. It is necessary if drinking water is necessary (water is so nasty to me right now)! Come on insurance, get with the program! I am happy morning sickness has arrived! The first time I hurled I was thrilled because I never got that sick with the others. Our dogs were really worried about me though!!!

A half hour before the ultrasound I have to admit, I bawled my eyes out with worry. I prayed hard that we would be strong and able to overcome anything. While the sonographer was looking at the baby, my heart was pounding so fast! After two miscarriages she delivered the happiest news to us "well, looks like it is in the right place and it is measuring exactly where we want it. And a strong heart rate of 153bpm!" The only concern she had was some liquid surrounding the sac and reassured us that if we have any spotting that it could be the liquid being absorbed; however, to call and come in for an ultrasound anyways. She also said my left ovary was being pinched by my growing uterus and that why I must be having these super sharp pains.

Afterwards she handed us pictures, something we never got when we had ultrasounds for our lost babies. This was the first time our baby measured within a day of my LMP (Last Menstrual Period). My cycles are 30 days, not the typical 28, so the baby measuring one day behind was actually perfectly acceptable.

I have a tilted uterus so I had a transvaginal ultrasound. When I was ready to put my pants back on Daniel stopped me and said "Do you want to put your pants on, or can I have a hug first?" It was still a sentimental hug, but I typically want to re-clothe as soon as possible after being in a doctors office! It was sweet seeing his red eyes filled with those happy tears that we haven't had in so very long. It was a good day, but now we have to wait 3 weeks for our next appointment.

I am not normally one to post pictures of my uterus on facebook, so I will just put them in the blog (just in case people don't want to see it). I personally don't really like to see strange people's ultrasound pictures.