Very Quick Update

I am feeling better, but very very tired.

My next doctors appointment is Friday.

Still haven't gained any weight, but I haven't lost anymore.

We are learning about pregnancy in class right now and it is very interesting.

Week 12

Well I am officially 12 weeks and 3 days pregnant (based on my estimated due date), which means that I only have 4 more days left of my first trimester! Its kind of crazy cause I still feel like it is all a big joke like in a few weeks someone is going to go "Ha ha - fooled you!" but I know it's not. I still don't feel pregnant. Anytime I talk about it or think about or someone buys the baby something it just feels like we are having the same daydream and it's never really going to happen anytime soon. The only time that I do feel even remotely pregnant is when my body is revolting against me and those times are not fun! So far being pregnant sucks. I have heard over and over, however, that it is MORE than worth it, and I know it will be.

Ok so what's new? I have lost a total of 13 pounds since February 19 which is a little weird to me. Part of me wants to be happy that I am loosing weight, but the other part of me is like well this isn't really the time to be loosing weight. I am not too concerned at this point because the doctors are ok with it and most people I talk to that have been pregnant say that a lot of people loose weight in the first trimester from being sick and such. So for now, it's no big deal. If I don't start gaining weight at least toward the end og my second trimester, then I will worry.

I sopke with the docotr (well Jason did it for me actually cause I was in school) and she said that I can stop taking the progesterone suppossitories since we have seen a good strong fetal heart rate. Yay! I have been taking my pre-natal vitamins and they make me a little bit sick, but I will live. They tested me last time I went to the office to see if I was a carrier of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) gene and it came back negtive which is really good news. That means that the chances of our baby having CF is really really insanely low so one less thing for me to have to worry about

I have been really sick this week, but a different kind of sick. Apparently I do not have high enough progesterone levels to keep me from bleeding some, but I DO have high enough levels to stop up my bowels. Progesterone is the major contributor to constipation during pregnany and it all starts at about 12 weeks - well suprize, suprize - I am 12 weeks and what happens? MAJOR constipation! Not cool.I will spare you all of the gross details, but I was sick - to say the least. I had my first real meal since Sunday yesterday for lunch. From Sunday to Wednesday all I ate was steamed white rice.

I feel a little guilty this morning because I have been really good about cutting down on sodas. I am down to about a can every other day (they say 9 cans a day is still in the safe range for the baby), but today I stopped by Sonic and got a large DrPepper. So much for being good. I guess I will just have to lay off for the next few days. I sure do love my DrPepper! Speaking of which, has anyone else heard that Diet DrPepper contains prune juice or is that just a myth? Christina told me that yesterday and if that is the case, I need to be drinking Diet DrPepper. Let me know if you have heard that too.

Well my next appointment with the OB is on Monday, April 2, but I also have an exam that day so I need to call her today and see if I can't reschedule. Hopefully during the next appointment we will be able to schedule the date that we get to find out the sex and if the baby has the CLCP or not. The doctor was really nice about all of it and assured me that we would take a look on the 3d/4d sonogram to make sure the face has developed properly so I am way excited about that. I will get to see my baby's face before he/she is even here. I will try an post a pic of it is they give us a copy (this is still at least 2 months away however). I have tried to scan in the sonograms, but have not been able to because of the paper thay use and how much black ink they use too. Sorry

So people have already begun buying things for that baby. I got a onsie from Laura (my mother-in-law) that says 'Miracle' on it and is OH SO adorable. And then my mom and sister were at Dillard's the other day and found all kinds of baby Chirstmas outfits on sale for like 3 and 4 dollars. They bought 1 little boys outfit with Santa in a helicopter that says 'Baby's First Christmas' on the back and 'Ho, Ho, Ho' across the butt - CUTE! They also got 2 little girls outfits one is a Mrs. Clause type suit thing and the other is white with Santa on it. They all came with cute little hats too! They are the perfect size (if my baby is normal sized) - 3 months. They are so little. It makes me think about how I made something that is going to be totally dependent on me and only that big. It's all kind of crazy and OH so exciting! I am SO excited! Thats all that has been bought so far that I know of. I should be getting more soon though cause I know that my mom and sister are going to be shopping this weekend. We'll see what we get! I can't wait for baby to be here. I wanna see what he/she looks like and acts like. I am nervous and exctied. I can't with till I can feel him/her move. Ugh - ok enough daydreaming, I need to study.

Ok, well I try and keep this more updated, but for right now, not a lot is going on really and I am trying to stay ahead in my classes (what a concept) so I am quite busy. Plus being sick has taken away a lot of my free time. If anything happes I will try and update though.

Update

So the doctors visit went well. All my hormone levels (except Progesterone) are good and within the correct range. They drew my blood while I was there and are going to check all kinds of things, but the one I care about the most is the progesterone levels. Hopefully thewy will calling me soon with some good news. So I have lost 8.5 since I got pregnant which the doctor is not worried about. Its just cause I have been so sick to my stomach. She gave me a prescription for Zofran (an anti-emetic) and I took some this morning and it seems to be helping a lot so I am happy. The doctor did a pelvic exam and checked out my bone structure. She said that I have pretty small hips and that I need to hope/pray/think positive about having a baby less than 8 pounds. She said that a 6.5 pound baby would be perfect and very easy for me to deliver, but anything above 8 pounds and I will probably have to get a C-section. That scares me. I DO NOT want a C-section. Anyway, we also talked about my high risk for having a baby with Cleft Lip - Cleft Palate since Jason and his brother have it. She said that we will do a 4d sonogram at about 20 weeks to check the development of the face and see what we can see. If we do not see anything on the sonogram then it means we are in the clear for the lip, but there will still be a chance that the baby has cleft palate. We will not know about cleft palate until it is born. She also said that even though CLCP (cleft lip cleft palate) is multifactorial, since both Jaosn and Noah have, we are at a higher risk because in Jasons case it seems to be more genetic than normal. Its not really a big deal, it'll just be nice to know ahead of time so that we can be prepared. We will need to have a plastic surgeon set up which we already know which one we use, and CLCP babies also require a little bit different care. They have to use special nipples to feed since they cannot effectively "lach on" or suck. It'll all be good. I am about 10 weeks along which means that I will be able to find out the sex of the baby in about 10 more weeks (I am half way there). Ok I think that all about the baby.

I also have been talking to my room-mate from undergrad (Stephanie K) and she is getting married in July. She has asked me to be one of her bridesmaids so I am SUPER excited, but I am going to be a VERY pregnant bridesmaid by the time her wedding comes so it should be interesting. She is coming into town this weekend and we are going to go shopping even though she has pretty much already found her dress. I guess I am going to have spend a day or two looking for my bridesmaid dress over Spring Break cause I don't know when I will have the time. That'll be interesting. She said she thinks that the store I want to get my dress from has a pregnancy pillow that you strap on so that you can find a dress that will "fit" a little better. IDK. It'll be a new experience, but I am excited none the less. I am so happy for her. I kind of feel bad that I am pregnant cause I don't want to take ANY bit of attention away from her on her big day. It should be fine. I hope.

The Beginning

Ok so here's the story so far...

On Saturday, February 10 at about 3:30 in the morning I woke up with this pretty bad pain in my lower abdomen. I tried to self medicate and go back to sleep, but nothing was working and the pain was getting worse. By about 8:00 a.m. I couldn't take it anymore and woke Jason up and told him I needed to go to the ER. He got up and showered and we were off to the ER at Plaza Medical Center. By this time the pain had spread to my right side along with my lower abdomen. So the ER does the initial work up and decides I probably have a kidney stone. They did urine tests and blood tests to make sure. Well after already getting my IV and my pain medication the doctor comes into my room and tells me that my urine test shows that I am pregnant. I laughed at him. He wasn't kidding. See, I was on birth control AND had had my previous period so I was sure there was so way I was pregnant. The doctor informed me that he was going to do a serum pregnancy test which is more accuate as well before they moved forward. They wanted an MRI, but since my pregnancy test came back positive, they couldn't do one. Anyway, the serum test came back positive too and Jason and I were in shock and also super excited. So that is how we found out. They ended up doing a sonogram to see how far along I was and also to see if I did actually have a kidney stone. The sonogram showed that I did in fact have a kidney stone and that I was about 4.5 weeks along in my pregnancy. So I went home happy not only cause I had some good pain medication running through my body, but also cause I was gonna have a baby!

Sunday, February 18 - I started bleeding vaginally which quite frankly freaked me the heck out especially since I am in medical school and know every possible thing that can go wrong during pregnancy. It was about 8 p.m. AND I had an exam the next day. I called my OB/GYN (who I had not even met ever) and told her what was going on. She told me to take it relax and take it easy for the rest of the night and call her office in the morning and make an appointment to get a sonogram and some blood work done to see if everything was ok or not. So I went in Monday afternoon and got some blood work done. They called me on Thrusday to tell me that my progesterone levels were low - which isn't good. Low progesterone levels correspond to high risk of miscarriage. I was worried - again. So the docotor prescribed me 50mg supossotories which I have to take twice a day. They also wanted me to come into the office on Monday to get a sonogram done. (I spent both Thursday and Friday hunched over the toilet vomitting cause I was passing my kidney stones) So on Monday Jason and I went back to the docotors office to get the second sonogram of our very short pregnancy (so far). The baby was about 1.8 cm long and there a nice good strong heart beat (good news!). The chances of having a miscarriage AFTER seeing a good heart beat in utero is only 1 in 10 which is way better then the 3 in 5 for before you see the heartbeat. It was really cool to see the heart bearing. It was kind of surreal. It was hard to believe that is going on inside of me and that that heartbeat is the heartbeat of my future child. It's so surreal. I cannot even describe it. So anyway, although the sonogram looked good the doctor wanted us to come back to get more blood work and another sonogram on Thursday. So back I went on Thursday and saw the heart beating again - nice and strong at 154 bpm. The baby was 1.99 cm long and they took my blood again to measure all my hormones. I still have not met the doctor, but I have an appointment today at 1:00 to meet with her and find out what she thinks about all this stuff that is going on and get any questions I have answered.

So, in summary, I am about 9 weeks pregnant and have already had 3 sonograms, been stuck with needles over 6 times, and will be due around October 1 (so late September or early October).

Ok well I guess I will update again after I see the doctor this afternoon.