All is well!

I called my OB office first thing this morning. I had to leave a message with the appointment desk. She said that she would leave a message for the dr. and he would decide what to do and call me back. I got a call back from the nurse (or maybe it was nurse practitioner) and explained the situation. She said that the exam tomorrow wouldn’t be sufficient and they couldn’t refer me out yet because I wasn’t technically a patient yet. She asked if I could go see my RE one last time or go to the hospital, but recommended my RE since I had a history there. I, of course, jumped at that chance to see my RE again and was able to get an appointment this afternoon.

All is well!! The size and heartbeat are great! The baby was so much bigger. Dr. N said maybe I was going to have a scientist. I said, “why, because she has a big head?” He laughed and said yes. Then, he changed is mind and said maybe he is a gymnast. The baby sure was flopping around and moving a lot. First, Dr. N tried an abdominal u/s, but he couldn’t get a clear picture so we switched to vaginal. Much better and clearer. It actually looked like a baby with a head, arms, hands, legs, feet and everything. Dr. N said the spine looked good and could see all 4 chambers of the heart. It was very cool. We had one quick full body crotch shot, but Dr. N said to early to tell the sex.

I was so happy to be going back to my RE office I couldn’t stop smiling on the way in. Everyone there was happy to see me too! As worried as I was, I just couldn’t prepare my self for bad news. I also figured that if the baby was dead, I was glad that it would be Dr. N instead of some strange dr. or a lab tech telling me. I warned Dr. N before we got started that I wasn’t prepared for bad news today. He said, he really thought it would be fine.

What caused the spotting? It could have been the blood clot. Although Dr. N said that it was almost gone and he would be surprised if it caused any more bleeding. It could have been low progesterone after going off the suppositories. Although, he didn’t think it was even worthwhile to test. It could have been a combination of the two. He did a quick check of the cervix to make sure there wasn’t something there causing it. Nope. So, it is a mystery, but it all ended well since I got a nice long look at my baby.

I also felt much better about not being able to get a heartbeat on the fetal heart monitor I rented because it took Dr. N a good 5+ minutes to be able to measure the heartbeat doing a vaginal u/s because the baby kept moving. He would just get it settled and the baby would move out of range. I think he started getting a little frustrated and apologized for it taking so long. I said “Are you kidding, more time to observe my baby in action? Don’t worry, take as long as you like”. LOL.

Dr. N said that every thing looked great and it was real. I was going to get a live baby out of this.

I am tired and thirsty and I have a headache, but all is well. I got to see my baby today and s/he looked great!