First let me say this. I really like my doctor. He is pretty non interventional. He believes to a certain degree to just monitor things and not use medical intervention unless needed. His staff though at times is different. This time the nurse the brought me back weighed me (up 5lbs) then got the heartbeat and measurement as well as my blood pressure. She never did tell us what the heartrate, bloodpressure or measurement was. She went about it and just ignored that I was trying to ask her. Oh well. I can put up with a mediocre staff for a doctor I like.
The only real problem I had to address at this appointment were the bad cramps that I started getting last week. At first I thought it was just all in my head but 2 afternoons and nights of it convinced me otherwise. I called the office and the nurses were great on the phone and told me to take it easy this past weekend, drink plenty of water and fluids and stay out of the sun. So this weekend that's what I did. It mostly worked but it was still happening a little. So today I asked my actual doctor. I gave him all the symptoms that I've been experiencing and he agreed that it sounded like I've been having contractions. He said to just watch it but didn't put me on any restrictions (besides reminding me not to climb on helos). So right now I still have them when I'm up for too long, but I also know that I did the right thing by calling in the first place and he encouraged me to call again if it gets bad.
So for the big news. We had the ultrasound. He checked the head, spine, feet, hands and face and everything looked good. Of course he also checked the parts. And lets just say that my gut feeling was right.
The big news is Butters and Mac will have a little sister.
Yes to my absolute shock it really is a girl. Even though my gut was telling me one thing its been wrong before so I was doubting what I really thought. So right now it looks like we will have a little girl due right around the time our beloved UAH Chargers should start home games.
Poor W is outnumbered and I am trying to get it through my head that we are actually going to have a baby girl around here!
3 comments:
I KNEW IT! : )
Steph
Congratulations on the girl!
I had obvious contractions (with my stomach getting very hard and everything) every 3 minutes for about an hour a day or more starting at 24 weeks with my twins. They were all just Braxton-Hicks, and once the nurses were reassured that the contractions weren't a sign of pre-term labor, they became just a fact of daily life. I went to 37.5 weeks without any changes at all from those contractions! Then had a C-section because of positioning, sigh, so who knows when they would have actually stared doing anything?
congrats!!
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