We started our every 2 week appointments! I still can’t believe that I’m far enough along to be seeing my OB doctor every two week, can’t say I’m not thankful though! This pregnancy has been rough. I’m still having nausea but I do have to say its much better than the first half of the pregnancy. I’m also not convinced this one is a girl! I’m good with having a boy or girl but this pregnancy has been sooo different compared to my pregnancy with Kiersten, completely opposite really! I have been really nauseated with this one, as most of you know. I’ve had a lot more pains, super dry skin, crave Pepsi (which my mother in law craved with both of her boys, which I think is strange). I have had dreams about this one that it’s a super fat baby boy with brown hair and brown eyes, and with Kiersten I had dreams of a blonde haired blue eyed girl! So we will see for 100% when the baby arrives! George and I will be excited no matter if it is a girl like they say, or we get the surprise of a baby boy! However if they were wrong (which I doubt, what are the odds right??) and it’s a boy, we have lots of damage control to do with Kiersten. She KNOWS it’s a girl and if you mention that it just could be a brother instead, she starts crying, and tells me that it’s a girl! So damage control will be in order if they were wrong!
So back to our last appointment… it wasn’t as simple as my other appointments! So went in and my blood pressure and heart rate and, weight were good! I didn’t gain any weight over the last two weeks and over all I’ve gained only 2lbs. Can blame the nausea on that one! I saw Stephanie Harrison this week and she measured my tummy which she said is measuring right on with my due date of February 12th. The babies heart rate was 148 this time, 154 two weeks ago! She said the heart rate sounded good and strong, so that is great news! However I explained to her that my shortness of breath has gotten much worse, and I have been feeling like my heart has been doing something strange. Many times through out the day I noticed that I can feel my heart up in my throat and it feels like its beating funny (flipping almost) and very rapid rate. She listened to my heart and informed me that I have a new mitral valve heart murmur, and that the weird feeling of my heart is probably heart palpitations. Being in the medical field I know what these are but I have never had them so I had no idea what they felt like! With all my symptoms combined with my anemic state (low blood count) from my previous blood work, she wanted to repeat my blood work and refer to a heart doctor to have them evaluate my heart! She said most likely all of this will resolve when the baby is born, but we need to watch it because there is a small chance that it won’t resolve! So my heart doctor appointment isn’t until the 21st of December, so I have a ways to wait to find out what is going on with the heart! I did go have lab work done in the mean time and my blood counts are rising (I’m now on iron supplement) and my thyroid levels were normal so that is great news! My sodium level was just slightly low but not terrible. So all in all the levels of my blood work were okay! I haven’t talked to my OB about them yet but I did review them on my own! So next appointment we will get the official confirmation that my labs look okay!
So now its just waiting time…. have to wait for next OB appointment and for my Heart appointment. Then we will have more of an idea on what is going on and if I can do anything about it. In the mean time, Caffeine is out of my diet, which is hard being so tired during this pregnancy and having a 3 year old with miles of energy! But good news… we are getting closer to meeting this new baby, and all of this craziness is worth it!
