Exiting the Danger Zone- Catch Up Post!

Well it seems I have been on hiatus. Today’s post is a catch up post!

I am 14 weeks pregnant today. I have been in a suspended stage of disbelief for two and a half months now, always waiting for my luck to change and my joy be snatched away. I tried not to get attached but that failed. Thankfully, today I have made it to the second trimester and everything seems to be going just fine.

I had my first ultrasound at 7 weeks to check on the situation in there. We were nervous. Nervous that we would see nothing and also worried we would see too many babies! What we saw was 1 perfect, beautiful blob of a baby with a heart beating away at 142 beats per minute. I quietly cried as our tech printed some pictures for us. The RE released us to an OB. I was now a regular pregnant lady!!



the baby is the blob on the top!



Around 9 weeks I started to feel sick. “Morning Sickness” is a crock. It can strike at any time and for however long it wants. Mine typically happens from either 3 or 4 PM through whenever I fall asleep and consists of overwhelming queasiness and heaving. No throwing up, just the terrible feeling that precedes it. Lucky lucky!

At 11 weeks we went to our OB for a routine appointment and had quite a scare. The doppler wasn’t picking up the heartbeat. The Dr. said that 11 weeks was probably too early to hear the heartbeat from the outside but of course after all I had been through getting pregnant, getting to 11 weeks and already convinced that this was too good to be true I must have had an expression of true panic on my face. Off to the hospital I went for a “viability ultrasound”. The term only made things worse. Once we finally get into the ultrasound room, the tech found the baby right away! It turns out that our little one is very energetic and was bouncing all over the place, basically treating my uterus like a jumpy castle. Also, my uterus is tipped to the back so these 2 things together made it nearly impossible for the OB to find anything on the doppler.

Watching the baby on the ultrasound screen was amazing. It wasn’t a blob anymore. It had a nose and fingers and toes. It was amazing that in a month it had changed so much! The heartbeat was up to 175 beats per minute and everything was looking good! Unfortunately the tech didn’t print us any pictures and I was too frazzled to remember to ask.

Here I am now at 14 weeks. My “morning sickness” seems to be getting a little better, I don’t hate food anymore and I have another appointment later this week. I am finally starting to think that this is real. It will seem more real when my pants don’t fit anymore though!