The baby quickly received a few nicknames that have stuck. One is Uno. This is because when I was pregnant with the twins I told Paul there was dos even before we officially knew! Karley also started calling the baby Sisrbro because the baby is her sis or bro! That one has been the most common one we have used!
One morning I was still in bed but awake. Bentley came in by me and Paul was getting ready in the bathroom. Karley came by and told Bentley to get out of my room and leave me alone. Then she stated "Don'tcha know it's hard work making a baby?!" Paul and I had a good laugh out of that one.
It has been almost a month since my last post and things have gone well. My bump has grown but definitely fluctuates and even fluctuates throughout a single day! Due to my anterior placenta, I haven't felt anything that I can 100% say is movement and we also haven't had success the few times we have tried to use the doppler at home. But this is normal.
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| January 11th- 14 weeks |
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| January 13th- 1st time Bentley got to use the doppler but we had no success |
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| January 13th- Karley got to try too |
My anxiety has been high this pregnancy and besides my past pregnancy, I am unsure why. I just get nervous! I think it also is different because I felt movements at 15 weeks with the twins so I had that reassurance from movements that they were okay but I don't have that yet with this one and I am almost 18 weeks.
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| 17 weeks with the twins vs. 17 weeks with this one! |
I had an appointment with my obgyn on February 2nd at 17 weeks 1 day. I got taken back at my appointment time and the nurse weighed me, took a urine sample, and did my blood pressure. Everything was fine. And then I waited a long time to see my doctor. It was almost an hour after my appointment arrival time that I saw him! He did explain that most patients were having issues and required extra time and other things ordered that he wasn't expecting. He used the doppler to find the baby's heartbeat. It took some time and some maneuvering and pushing but he found it! And just after he found it, the baby gave the doppler a solid kick! It was pretty cool to know it's moving around in there. The heartrate was 151. He then measured my fundal height. I asked a few questions and he was honest with me. He did tell me that unfortunately anyone who gets pregnant via infertility help has a higher risk of bad things happening. I had already known this from some of the things I had read so it wasn't too much of a surprise. He said himself and the maternal fetal medicine doctor will follow me as a high risk pregnancy which is exactly what we did with the twins.
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| February 2nd- 17 weeks 1 day |
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| February 2nd- On my way to my doctors appointment |
The next appointment is at the end of February with the maternal fetal medicine doctor and is our big anatomy scan!!! If all goes well, we will find out what we are having but since I am the only one who is able to go, I will be getting it in an envelope so we can all find out together. (Hopefully what I have planned will be able to happen!)
Overall I have been feeling good. My energy level has been low still so I have been lounging around or going to bed early. I have also had some growing pains but nothing major.
I can't wait to feel movements and find out what we are having!
