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05-5-2008 - Our pregnancy so far

My mood while writing this blog: waiting patiently

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Wow where do i start... We have had a major rollarcoaster ride so far during this pregnancy. After planning to have another baby after a six years break Scott and i were suprised when the fisrt month of trying we had sucessfully concieved :)

Firstly when i first went to the doctors at seven weeks Feb 2nd 08. i was told that the medication i was on for my high blood preasure was very dangerous and could have already harmed my baby (after being told by my previous doctor in my old town we'd moved from that it would be fine and that he'd just have to keep a very close eye on my pregnancy). This new doctor asked me in that one visit if i would consider aborting this child on three seperate occasions. He booked me in for a emergency appointment with the local OB for the following day, I was so scared and confused when i walked out of that doctors appointment i rang my husband and burst into tears. Scared beyond any measure we went to the OB appointment where we sat in the waiting room for over an hour watching other pregnant women walk in and out of his office. i sat there wondering if i'd ever make it that far along with our baby or would we have to make that unthinkable decision to abort this baby we had both wanted so bad and were overjoyed to have. The OB was not a very nice man and told me the other doctor i was seeing had no idea about modern medications and the only reason they had the warning on them was because no tests had been done on any pregnant women with those certian drugs. (I can totally understand that there is no was i would want to test out any unknown drugs on my unborn baby either). He checked my blood preasure which was fine and said i didn't need the medication as i hadn't taken the last two doses i was ment to and my Bp was fine, So i stopped taking them imediately... The Ob was more worried about if i smoked or drank alcohol and even after telling him i didn't do either he preceeded to give me a huge lecture on the subject and then rushed us out of the office without giving us any time to ask him our own questions...

A few days later I went back to my doctor and gave him the results. He was happy to see that the Ob wasn't worried about the medication and that put his mind at ease until he measure my fundus height for the first time which should have been around 12cm just above my pubic bone but was actually closer to 18cm and just below my belly button. Again i was put into a state of panic when this doctor told me he thought i was having twins..... I was in shock again... my hubby and i had decided to have another baby and even though we know there is a risk of twins as they run in our family, we didn't plan on having them..lol.... I booked in for an ultrasound and had to wait 12 long days until i could get in....

A little concerned i booked in to see the other doctor at the surgery who is a woman. i hoped she would be a little more gental than the old gentleman i had been seeing which i had now nicknamed the old fossil..lol My new doctor was lovely. She totally underdtood where i was coming from about not liking the Ob. She said that because we live in a counrty town and he is the only Ob here, he thinks he can treat everyone that way. Anyway she measured my fundus height which was now just over 18cm and she had a bit of a feel around my tummy and suggested that she thought i may have some sort of growth in my uterus possibly fibroids rather than twins.... ok so now i'm either having twins or have a growth..... when am i going to get any good news. i'm starting to feel like this is not ment to be... maybe i'm not ment to have another baby....

25th March 08 ULTRASOUND Day..... we finally got to see our little baby today. I was so looking forward to today i really wanted to find out if it was one baby or two... i wanted to know how big i could expect to get because if it was twins and if i was going to get even bigger (now that's a scary thought as i aready have huge babies..Jake was 9lb11oz and Taryn was 8lb15oz..) I woke up so excited that this day we would find out..... until i went to the toilet first thing in the morning and discovered i was bleeding........ this had never happened to me before with my other pregnancies... i rang Scott in tears as he was at work already and told him what was happening. He very clamly told me to sit down and relax and stop panicing ..... thats exactly what i did while i rang my best friend Sarah. I was so worried but talking to her made me feel alot better.. i'm so so lucky to have such a wonderful friend in my life and even though we now live 2.5 hours away from each other our friendship is closer than ever... we spend hours on the phone every single day...

Anyway we went to the ultrasound and it turned out to be such a wonderful experience as Scott and i decided that we would let both Jake and Taryn come along and see the baby too.. There was only one baby and it had one head two arms and two legs. I was so happy, What more could i ask for? Jake was fasinated with seeing the skull and it's heart beat. Taryn was just concerned that it was hurting me..lol. And by the time the ultrasound was over and i was finally over and i was allowed to go to the toilet again i noticed the bleeding had stopped..We got the results back and everything looked ok. Thank goodness maybe now i could relax a little.... except when i got home that evening the bleeding had started again :( i didn't know what to think..... had i just introduced my children to a baby they may never meet, had i really done the right thing by taking them with me?

26th March 08 I got up took my other children to school and went straight to the doctors... lucky for me when i explained to the receptionist what had happened and she slipped me in before the next appointment as my doctor is always booked out. I told my doctor (the lovely lady one) about the bleeding and after doing an internal she told me that my cervix looked clear but she was i little worried about me and i was to go home and was on strict instructions not to go shoppping, push trolleys, prams or anything heavy including washing baskets.... and if i had any cramping, clotting or unuaual pains to go straight to the hospital and to come back and see her on monday.... now was the time i needed to listen and went straight home and rested .....

2nd April 08 Back to the doctors and after reading my ultrasound report she said it doesn't really tell her anything other than there is a baby in there lol... My urine sample showed large amounts of blood and traces of ketones......great more good news ...not..... i am now being refered to the big hospital interstate for further testing. I just have to wait for them to call me and let me know the appointment time....

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