154 Days to Go!

I have been getting asked TONS of questions lately since I haven't updated so here you go.

My doctor's appointment on Friday went well. My blood pressure is back down to normal which is really good and I was really happy about. Also, I still haven't gained any weight, but my doctor is very pleased with that. It's weird cause even though I haven't physically gained any weight my belly is getting bigger and harder and its harder for me to hold/suck in. I did NOT get to see Baby Jones on the sonogram because we were able to hear the heartbeat on the doplar and everything sounded great.

We talked to the doctor about my 20 week sonogram (which is the one when you usually find out the sex). She said that since we are going to go to a perinatologist to see about the cleft lip and cleft palate we will just look at that time and figure out the sex. That appointment had not been set yet, but should be within the next two weeks. She also said that once I am farther along (and tha baby is bigger/easier to see) we will do a second 4d sonogram at her office to double check the face. I will work very hard on getting pictures from both of those appointments and post them here. As soon as I know when the perinatologist appointment is, I will post it here.

Everyone keeps asking if I have felt the baby move yet. The answer is I don't know for sure. There has been once or twice when I have felt a fluttering type movement in my lower abdomen when I am laying in bed, but there hasn't been anything really definate. I am hoping I will be able to start feeling it move soon.

Everyone also wants to know what sex Jason and I want to have. We don't really care, we just want a healthy baby. Maybe we are leaning toward a girl, but either is totally fine. We do have a girl name decided on - Audrey Lynn Elizabeth Jones. No decision on boys names yet. I am ready to know the sex so I can start thinking about all the fun stuff like nursery decorations and clothes!

Ok, thats all the baby news. I spent my weekend in Oklahoma City. We went for Devan's wedding which was very pretty. It was plain and simple, but beautiful. I really liked it and Devan looked AWESOME. It was kind of cute because she forgot the rings in the dressing rooms so when they got to the part where they are supossed to exchange rings they had to borrow her parents rings. It was cute and not a big deal. She handled it well though. She did turn a little red for a bit, but it was fine and everyone just chuckled about it. I also got to see Sarah and Colin, Dr. Xiao, and Dr. Hill. It was good and lots of fun. I also got to go downstairs in the PEC and see the new labs that they did over the summer. Jason and I also made it out to Dr. Gaither grave and that was really sad and hard. I miss her a lot more than I thought I did. She was one amazing lady. Anyway, I had a good fun weekenk. Jason and I got stuck in really bad traffic on the way home to Fort Worth for about an hour. After that hour they shut down the highway we had been sitting on and we had to turn around and find a new way home. It was more than 100 miles extra and almost 6 hours of a trip overall (usually it takes 3). Oh well, it wasn't too terrible.

I think thats all the news I have. I will probably be updating again soon when I know the next appointment date and so forth.

Complaint

I am so beyond tired this morning that I cannot even keep my eyes open very well. Everyone says that you get more energy in the second trimester and I feel like I have even less. Being a medical student on top of being pregnant is not an easy thing to do and being pregnant is the easier part of having kids (so I am told) as far as time commitment goes.

I am also feeling a little sick to my stomach this morning and I really don't like it. I wanna just go home, take a Zofran, and go to bed for the rest of the morning and maybe the afternoon too.

I have to study

No rest for the weary....

VERY Quick Update

Thursday night Jason fell and fractured his radial head. So I spent all of my Thursday nigth and all of friday morning at the hospital (long story) and the rest of the weekend have been taking care of him. Here is a copy of one of his x-rays.




I have a cold and cannot really take any good medicine to help it go away, so I am miserable.

On top of my cold I am having (what I think is) round ligment pain and it is quite intense. Can't really move, and trying to take care of someone when you can't really move is not easy and does not make the pain better. Coughing also makes it worse and I cannot stop coughing.

Thats all for now. I have an exam tomorrow.

13 Week Doctor's Appointment

Ok so I am FINALLY updating. I had 2 big exams yesterday and spent all weekend studying and then went to bed last night at 7pm and slept till now (7am).

So I am in the exam room at the doctors office and the nurse is trying to find the babys heartbeat on a dopplar thingy and cannot fins the heartbeat. I think she probably tried for about 5 minutes or so and couldn't find anything at all. I have to admit it worried me a tad, but I didn't get too worked up over it. The doc came in and told me that since the baby was going to be difficult today we were going to get a free sonogram. So off to the sonogram room we went. The doctor actually did our sonogram this time and this was the first time I actually got it done by her instead of the tech. We got a really good view of the baby and he/she was moving around like crazy! He/she was tossing and turning and flipping over. We saw him/her wave and kick and all kinds of stuff. It was very exciting. We got a good view of the spine which looked good and also a good view of the heart (what we cared about at the moment) and it was bating nice and strong with a good regular heartbeat. He/she laid still long enough for us to get a good look at his/her face, but he/she is so small right now that we really couldn't tell if everything looked normal or not. The doctor really tried though. She looked for probably a good 2 or 3 minutes trying to decide.

We scheduled our next exam for Friday, April 27. At that exam we will get to schedule our 20 week sonogram which is where we will find out the sex, YAY! We talked a little more about the CLCP subject with the doctor and she told us that we have 2 options: we could just switch over to the 3d/4d sonogram dueing our 20 week sonogram there at her office to see if we could see anything about the face, or we could find a Perinatologist to do it for us. We chose to go to a Perinatologist. They have much more advanced technology for looking for stuff like this and they also have more experience at looking for stuff like this - I mean that's what they do EVERYDAY. So Jason is working on getting that set up. It will also be around 20 weeks. So We should know pretty together both the sex and if the baby has CLCP or not. I'm not worried. It is just a preperation measure. I want to have everything set up and ready for when my child gets here. Man that still sounds so weird to me. "My Child." Kind of scary too! I'll be ok. I have tons and tons of support and God will guide Jason and I to be great parents.

So while I was at the docotr's office, my blood pressure was pretty high. I talked to the doctor about it a little bit because I know that pregnancy can cause you to have high blood pressure and that sometimes leads to pre-term labor. She said that that is most likely not the case with me. It is too early for pregnancy induced hypertension to show up (she said). She said that more likely than not I am border line hypertensive already and becoming pregnant just amplified the already exsiting problem. It something that I am a little concerned about, but shouldn't be a big deal. She said that we will keep an eye on it and if it continues to rise (or gets too high) I will have to go onto medication for it. I asked her what I can do to keep it down and said get new parents. It is mostly genetic. She also said to limit sodium intake - so thats what I am trying to do. Thats hard though cause I have been craving salty foods.

Thats about all there was for the doctors appointment, but I got to go and see RENT Sunday night and it was AMAZING! Jason got us GREAT seats and I thouroughly enjoyed evey second of it. I think I fall more and more in love with it everytime I see it. He also got me a cool T-shirt that says "No Day But Today" on it. I had a blast!

I will also be in Oklahoma City from April 27 - April 29 for a wedding. If anyone there would like to try and meet up with me, give me a shout!