Yesterday was already my second dr's appointment. Time is flying, as I knew that it would. I told Dr Collins about my stomach virus from hell. He said that that was really running rampant lately, and I can testify. TWICE in a week, in case you missed that. Later he said, "You know I'm going to need to see you gaining weight, right?" We do kind of fight about that. I have no problem gaining weight in pregnancy. I just don't think you need to gain 50 lbs. But it's way too early in the game to worry about that yet. That stomach virus lessened my blow this time on the scale, I feel sure.
He asked me if I wanted to do the triple screen, which is the blood work that they do in the beginning to see if your baby has Down's syndrome. I don't know why I've thought twice about it this time. I didn't do it with either of my other children and never gave it a second thought. I've heard about false positives. He said that he and his wife got one themselves. After going back and forth about it, he said there's only two reasons to do it. 1. If I'm planning to terminate the pregnancy. 2. If I'm going to obsess about it nonstop. (does he know me?) In the end, I assured myself of what I know--that this baby is a sweet, perfect...PERFECT gift from God made in His image...just fine, all systems operating exactly as they should without any dysfunction. And we'll just get confirmation of all of those things at the 20 week ultrasound. Then we talked about a TLC show I saw called "Obese and Pregnant." I wanted to know how he deals with examining fat FAT people. He loves me. Anyway, on my way out, they called up to the desk and said that I needed to go across the hall for a heart check in ultrasound. I did notice that they didn't do the doppler, but I didn't think much of it. So, I got an unexpected ultrasound. I asked the girl if that was normal to do that just for heart rate, and she said no, so it was my lucky day.
Just look at how much this baby has grown! Looks like a baby now!! And what was even cooler is that I could see those little legs moving, even though I can't feel them yet. I think this picture is pretty self explanatory. You can see the head, the body, the legs...an arm? Travis goes, "What is that? I don't get that." Sigh...
He asked me if I wanted to do the triple screen, which is the blood work that they do in the beginning to see if your baby has Down's syndrome. I don't know why I've thought twice about it this time. I didn't do it with either of my other children and never gave it a second thought. I've heard about false positives. He said that he and his wife got one themselves. After going back and forth about it, he said there's only two reasons to do it. 1. If I'm planning to terminate the pregnancy. 2. If I'm going to obsess about it nonstop. (does he know me?) In the end, I assured myself of what I know--that this baby is a sweet, perfect...PERFECT gift from God made in His image...just fine, all systems operating exactly as they should without any dysfunction. And we'll just get confirmation of all of those things at the 20 week ultrasound. Then we talked about a TLC show I saw called "Obese and Pregnant." I wanted to know how he deals with examining fat FAT people. He loves me. Anyway, on my way out, they called up to the desk and said that I needed to go across the hall for a heart check in ultrasound. I did notice that they didn't do the doppler, but I didn't think much of it. So, I got an unexpected ultrasound. I asked the girl if that was normal to do that just for heart rate, and she said no, so it was my lucky day.
Just look at how much this baby has grown! Looks like a baby now!! And what was even cooler is that I could see those little legs moving, even though I can't feel them yet. I think this picture is pretty self explanatory. You can see the head, the body, the legs...an arm? Travis goes, "What is that? I don't get that." Sigh...
Look at the huge difference in growth in just four weeks: from 8 1/2 to 12 1/2. Amazing.
By the way, Travis and I have been discussing names and we have narrowed it down quite a bit. The due date really made it simple for us. Because this will be a Christmas time baby, we are going with Kris Kringle...OR one of the 8 reindeer. I feel sure Jaggar's vote is for Rudolph. What do you think??
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