Yesterday's Doctor Appointment

Sorry that I didn't post this yesterday, but honestly, I just didn't feel like it. I'm lazy, I know, but since I'm pregnant I think that is allowed every now and again!

So the appointment went well! We listened to the baby's heartbeat, which was still pumping strong and then I asked him a bunch of questions which he answered. Based upon all the information and tests from the ER as well as listening to the heartbeat yesterday, he doesn't really feel that I should be overly concerned about it. Hearing that from the Dr was really calming, I went in there really concerned and I left feeling reassured that everything is okay and my baby is fine. Other than answering a million of my other questions he has said that he is concerned about my blood pressure. It is not at hypertension levels but he is concerned about it and said he would decide whether to treat me as a hypertension patient or not. (I wanna do some research on it because I always get really nervous and anxious when I go and my pulse quickens and honestly it seems really ridiculous and I have no idea why I do it, but I do and I wanna know if it could affect my blood pressure readings). Also since diabetes and gestational diabetes happens to run in my family he went ahead and gave me an early sugar test. I can find out those results on Monday. The good news is that I've only gained 2 pounds, woohoo! So all in all there are a couple things that I'm concerned about right now, but hopefully all will turn out well, but I'll keep you posted!

Just When You Think Life Is Getting Boring...

Okay, so we had the scare of our lives this morning! At about 4:30am I woke up for my nightly bathroom trip and upon entering the bathroom and turning on the light I discovered blood. Lots and lots of blood. At this point I was hysterical but probably in shock because I didn't start to cry until I went back to the bedroom, looked at the bed and saw the blood there, and woke Brandon up to my crying. We were both horrified at the thoughts of what it could all mean. So I called my mom who somehow managed to calm me down and tell me to call the Dr. The doctor tells me to go straight to the ER, which I do. Upon arrival they take me straight back into the the part of the ER that is labeled "Critical" needless to say that didn't calm me down any. They decided the wanted me to have a female nurse, I guess they thought a female could empathize with me more, so she comes in and informs me that they're going to do a pelvic exam to make sure the plug is still in place, blood work to check my hormone levels and an ultrasound to check and make sure everything on the inside looks good as well. Well the pelvic exam went fine although she said it was hard to tell because of all the blood, although she did try to reassure me that it was "old blood" so I had definitely stopped bleeding. After that they took my blood and then wheeled me to the ultrasound department. I was helped there by a very nice lady who helped to comfort me a lot. She actually discovered that I have a 3.5cm cyst on my right ovary that none of my other doctors had found, which kinda ticked me off (not that she found it but that my other doctors hadn't found it). Other than that she took her time and let me watch our baby as much as I wanted. Upon telling her what had happened with the pictures and my last ultrasound she decided that she was going to give me a CD full of pictures of our beautiful baby (We have about 17 pictures but I'll share 4 with you). I had a blast watching Baby Fox moving around and all that fun stuff. It obviously is relaxing in there because it has its legs crossed and its head resting peacefully on its arm. So everything looked fine with the ultrasound as well. The baby has a heartbeat of 150, which is healthy and just watching him/her made me very happy and helped to reassure me dramatically. As for what the doctors say, everything seems to be fine I just have to followup with my OB/GYN next week but seeing as I had an appointment for Wednesday anyway, that won't be an issue. Anyway...

Without furthur ado...Baby Fox:

This is a good one of the profile and body

This is a face shot. You can see where the eyes are and the baby's hand beside it's head. He/She must really like that because the entire time it had it's head resting on it's hand.

Here you can see it relaxing with its little legs crossed.

Another picture of Baby Fox relaxing, must be really comfy in there!