After 6 hours of appointments today, everything looks good.

I had another A1C test today which was horrible drinking all that sugary-goodness.

I also had a ton of the same tests repeated (Cistic Fibrosis, HIV, etc) since I changed to a new hospital and the old hospital still hasn't provided the results. I told my doctor it was easier to just repeat them all to make sure that we didn't find out later that we missed anything. So 10 vials of blood later and I get to wait a week and a half for results.

I have my next appointment in 2 weeks with an ultrasound.

So far I'm measuring at 15/16 weeks.

I know it's been a while since I posted. I've been extremely busy.

Just within the past 5 minutes I got to feel the first "flutter" ever. Those of you who have been pregnant before know what I'm talking about - and I can recognize that feeling outside of the normal body movements that go on.

So I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon with a new doctor at a new hospital. I got fed up going to Forbes Regional and are going back to Magee where I delivered my first.

If you want to add to my list of complaints about Forbes Regional - after all these appointments I've been going to so far, none of them have actually been OB appointments. Even after asking why I wasn't having the same kinds of appointments as my first no one understood what I was asking. After trying to make an appointment to have my first trimester screening and being denied because I had to an OB appointment first, things clicked for them and I now realize although I've been "seen" multiple times now there, and have had multiple sonograms, that truely I have not had any prenatal care yet.

I'm not worried about it, since I didn't go in for my first pregnancy till 3 months either, however it really ticks me off that there was a lack of communication by the staff at Forbes Regional about this issue along with many others that I had when there.

So hopefully my next post will be about my appointment tomorrow and my follow up 1st trimester screening.

Wierd part about this flutter is that it is the same time in the morning the my first pregnancy fluttered in the middle of the night. 1:30 AM every morning I either got kicked awake or I was used as a playground.

Sonogram appointment #1

We arrived at my appointment a little early. They came out to bring me back to the room, and unfortunately thats when I found out it was an "internal" sonogram. Sadly this upset Caleb as I had promised him he could go with us although I knew we couldn't see anything at this point in time.

I got into the room and the tech had me undress in front of her. Now we're both women, but the idea that she was in the same room with me and I was not given a gown (I still had my top half on) was still a bit unnerving.

During my sonogram, the tech walked me through the different things she was looking at. At one point she said "Here's your fibroid". I was like - What fibroid?

She said you didn't know about it? And I told her no that it was the first I had heard of it. In a bad attempt to lighten the situation, she said "Surprise".

The first thing I thought about after hearing the word fibroid was "tumor". From there I thought about "cancer". Fortunately after my own research online I found out that uterine fibroids are rarely ever cancerous.

To make matters worse, she also mentioned that the sac was a little small, and measured it to be about 4 weeks 3 days. To me that wasn't a big deal at first, but she kept talking about it and making me feel as if it was. So I'm suspicious.

To add to my frustration, there was no real sonogram tech or doctor available because it was after 5:00 to answer my questions or to even look over my sonogram. So I have to sit here overnight and worry about it I guess. She said this is normal after 3:30 PM - so why didn't anyone tell me - because I certainly would never have taken that late of an appointment if that was the case.

I did do some research online and found that this is more common than I thought.

• There are some risks and this will put me into the "high risk" pregnancy category.
  
• I'll have to be monitored more frequently during the pregnancy which likely means more ultrasounds every few weeks. I found out that fibroids can grow during pregnancy because of blood flow changing and hormones increasing. Generally they grow within the first trimester, but there is a large percentage chance that they will not grow at all. Since I didn't know I had one previously I have no comparison unfortunately.
  
• The worst case scenarios could be that I could miscarry if the fibroid and baby battle for space, hemorrhage after delivery or have a C-section if the delivery canal gets blocked (depending on how big the fibroid gets).
  
• There is also the chance that the placenta could detach from the uterine wall if the fibroid and the baby compete for space.

I may also have to have them removed after delivery at some point. That's a whole other story.

I have to wait until tomorrow to find out more details and what kind of fibroid it is. During my reading I found out that if it is a submucosal fibroid, that it could thin the lining of the uterus and end up in a miscarry.

I've read a few stories online where the fibroid actually ended up being larger than the baby itself at delivery time and was perfectly healthy, so I know I at least have a chance here. I may be miserable through the pregnancy though depending on how the fibroids react to the pregnancy.

We're expecting

So we found out today that we are expecting baby #2. I originally scheduled my appointment to check my thyroid levels, so you can imagine my surprise.

The doctor says that I'm roughly 5 weeks along, hands me some pre-natal vitamins (with stool softener, which scares me) and schedules me for a sonogram to confirm and to check on some pain that I was having during my exam.

The Sonogram is scheduled for Wednesday.