Big News at 14 Weeks

Today, 4 February 2014, I had my 14 week checkup with Tricia.  No ultrasound today, only the doppler to listen to the heartbeat.  Sounds good!  Nice and strong.  Next appointment: 4 March.

While at the doctor's office I asked if they had received the results of my genetic tests.  I called Atlanta Maternal Fetal Medicine on 31 Jan, as I thought they would have had the results by then.  They should have been in, but the Atlanta "Snowpocalypse 2014" completely shut down the city for 2 days.  I was told they should be in the next day or two.

Tricia did not have the results yet, so I called again when I got home.  I was hoping to get the big news with Blaine right there, but I only got the nurse's voicemail.  I got a call back later (while at Target), and was told that I had good results - all my tests came back with very low risks for all the different tested chromosomal abnormalities.  She then asked if I wanted to know the baby's gender.  Uh, yes, please!...  It's a little boy!

I went straight home and told Evan he was going to have a little brother.  He is very happy with this news, and says he is going to let him play with his cars.  He's going to be such a good big brother.  Now I'll just have to find some way to keep my sanity with 3 boys ruling the house!  
 

Atlanta Maternal Fetal Medicine

At my first appointment, my doctor had recommended I go to Atlanta Maternal Fetal Medicine to have some genetic testing done.  This was recommended solely based on my age.  Guess that's proof that I am officially now an old lady!  (This was the same office I visited with Evan to look into a spot seen on his heart.)  My appointment was on 20 January, and they used a much more powerful ultrasound to check out the baby.  You can see so much more in the pictures below - a profile, little arms and legs, and the second picture shows the tiny feet!  They couldn't make very many measurements today, as it is still pretty early (12 weeks).  I'll need to go back in 6 weeks for a more in-depth ultrasound and measurements.  

Blood was also drawn to do some genetic testing.  I should have the results of the tests in 7-10 days, and they will even be able to tell me the baby's gender at that time.  We are anxiously waiting to make that call!

 

8 January 2014 - 2nd Ultrasound

10 weeks along now, and time for my 2nd doctor's appointment.  I had another ultrasound done today.  It was amazing to see just how much the baby has grown and changed in just the past 4 weeks.  This time I could actually see a baby in there.  I got to hear the heartbeat this time as well.  My blood was drawn today for all the usual bloodwork, and everything is going along just fine.

10 December 2013 - 1st Ultrasound

Today was my first appointment with Tricia (my midwife).  I didn't realize they were going to do an ultrasound today.  The pictures from the ultrasound are below.  I was only about 6 weeks along at this point, so they weren't able to see much yet.  All I could see was a small C-shape, but you could see something moving, and it was the heart beating!  It was still too early to hear the heartbeat, but I was able to see a waveform of the heartbeat, and it looked nice and strong.  All's well so far.  Next appointment:  8 Feb. 

28 November 2013 - first finding out

Blaine and I found out about our second miracle in waiting on Thanksgiving morning.  We had only been trying to get pregnant for one month, so I had absolutely no expectations that I was already preganant.  I had taken three pregnancy tests the previous week, all of which had been negative.  I was getting ready to go to Blaine's parents' house for Thanksgiving dinner.  I thought I might want to have a glass of wine with dinner, so it couldn't hurt to take another test just to be sure it was negative before having a drink.  Imagine my surprise when the test was postive!  Blaine was still in bed asleep at this time, so I gave the test to Evan and asked him to take it to his Daddy.  Evan took it to Blaine, but I think he was still too asleep to process what was going on.  

It was very difficult to keep the news quiet the rest of the day.  At Thanksgiving dinner Corrie and Jon announced their second baby.  I wanted to say "Me too!" so many times, but wanted to wait a while, and certainly didn't want to steal Corrie's thunder.  Of course it was the beginning of a long holiday weekend, so I had to wait until Monday to even call the doctor's office to make an appointment.  What a long weekend. 

We asked Evan several times if he would like to be a big brother, and he seems very excited to take on the job!  We'll see how this goes...