Baby update!

-totally posted this in may but playing with the app now (in January 2012) messed it up.


So far we have had two pretty good OB appointments! One with the regular Ob at Portsmouth and the second one I just had on the 5th with maternal fetal medicine at Portsmouth. Both time we have been able to see the little bugger in there but I only have one picture to share :[ I didn't get any the second time since they just wanted to check to see if everything was ok because of all the cramping I was having due to my sickness.

Well here is the break down of each if I remember them correctly.
The first appointment they did a pelvic exam and ultrasound. At the ultrasound the baby was measuring about 4 days behind but had a heart beat! It looked like a little peanut. She didn't measure the heart rate but I did get two pictures. I found out I had another asymptomatic uti and was stuck on macrobid for that for 10 days. My blood pressure actually came down at this appointment! It was actually pretty dang normal! Well she sent me to maternal fetal medicine for an evaluation so I made my appointment with them on the 5th. They also want me to go see a nutritionist since I am underweight. That is going to be loads of fun....not.

Now onto the second appointment. I just was in the ER for a good 7 hours two days prior because I couldn't breath very well and I had a fever. I felt like total crap! They did an ultrasound, didn't measure the baby, but pointed out the heartbeat and said it was in the 170s. I am not very reassured by this doctor. He didn't seem to know very much about things he should. He actually asked me what a missed miscarriage was! I was like wow.....so I am going to see him on June 7th and then go to standard and go where I want because that just made me feel extremely uncomfortable. My dream is to give birth in the midwife center at Bon Secours Depaul Hospital. An un-medicated birth! He is sticking me on baby aspirin but I feel very nervous to actually start taking it. He also checked my thyroid and then he went and had me do a 24 protein test which hasn't been fun so far obviously. Ok well that is my update! I hope soon I will be able to post the baby's heartbeat if I ever find it on the home doppler I have :D

Guess what people?!

I AM PREGNANT!

*happy dance time* lol
I am ecstatic and surprisingly I think my husband is even happier then me if that is at all possible! He is seriously the best man and father alive, I swear. I love him to death and I can't wait to have him here to be able to experience this with me for once. He most likely will be there for the birth too! Which is new to us, since he didn't come home from deployment last time until our darling daughter was close to 2 months old. So I am not complaining at all!

Well here is some back story. We have been talking and we decided to try again and try to plan for a baby to be born before he left on his third deployment. So we had an end date to stop trying. To get the ball rolling I made an appointment with my PCM and told him my past and how I was able to carry Rose to full term. So instead of sending me off to the RE and the OB like I thought and me have to wait as patiently as possible, he decided to give me the prescription to metformin himself! I am so lucky! So I started to take the met at the end of January and just prayed that it will make me ovulate. And wam bam March 6-7 came along and I got my first PP cycle!!! *cue another happy dance* So with that I started peeing my happy go lucky self on some ovulation tests and come to find out I ovulated, but late too! So according to my LMP my due date is December 10, 2011. But according to the day I know I ovulated, my due date should be December 12th or 13th. I believe I will have him or her either late November or early December :D

I am freaking nervous and scared to death! I don't want to go through another miscarriage at all. I don't think I will be able to handle another one personally. But anywho, I am high risk from the start. My M/C past and my past pregnancy complications has put me on that lovely list again. I am actually really angry at Tricare for what they did but I am over it now. My PCM put in that he wanted me to go to EVMS to the Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic they have there so they could monitor me and baby properly. Tricare took it into their own hands, and send me to the REGULAR OB at Portsmouth.....oh yea and of course that hospital wanted me to take that stupid class (the one I have taken 4 times already) before I could even make my nurse, and then doctors appointment. I said hell no and had my doctor and his helper call them. They finally understood the rush to get me in so guess who has her first prenatal appointment on the 19th? This girl! I am excited and nervous. I don't want to get bad news but I already have a feeling I will. I have hope, I do, but I can not for the life of me, shake this bad feeling that I have had on my shoulders since I popped the positives on the pregnancy tests. I really hope I can come on this coming Tuesday with wonderful news, like "my baby has a heart beat!" "looking healthy already!" and hopefully even this "my bp is down and I'm not pre-hypertensive anymore!" but we shall see. Wish me luck!

Day 23 Something you wish you had done in your life.

Again, live with no regrets! How many of these "truths" are similar like this? If I absolutely have to name one it would be to travel. And since that couldn't happen when I was younger (little, in school, still with family etc.) then it's really not realistic to say I wish to have done that in my life. But I know I will do it in the future :D

Day 22 Something you wish you hadn’t done in your life.

I try to live with no regrets but I guess this post ties into day number 3's. And with that post I already am in the process of forgiving myself for. So there is nothing in my life that I wish I never done.

Day 21 (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?

No questions asked, go to her and pray that she is ok. That does not even warrant a response. I would be supremely petty and immature if I let a simple fight dictate how I treat others, especially a best friend.

Day 20 Your views on drugs and alcohol.

Depends on what you mean by drugs. I think for medicinal purposes it is ok, but to disabuse it, they are not at all. Now alcohol in and of itself is not bad, but with everything, there is always somebody to use it with excess. So with that excess there are stupid people too. People who drive drunk or tipsy, people who loose control and does something stupid that will either harm themselves or others. And that is not ok. I guess what I am trying to get at is they need to be monitored and people need to be responsible.