Today I had my midwife appointment, and it went well. Blood pressure was good, pee strip was normal, baby's heart was beating at 150 roughly, and she gave the doppler a few good hard kicks that made my day. I'm measuring 2 weeks ahead, whereas 4 weeks ago I was measuring 1 week ahead. Interesting, but that's all I'm going to think about that, as I just don't want to go there, in thinking I might be further along, and therefore might have this baby early. It ain't happening, and I'm saving myself a lot of grief by recognizing that now and not at 41.5 weeks.
My midwife made me cry today! It was a relieving cry. I was just telling her about my worries that I somehow caused Elijah's speech delays, and she gave me a hug, and that just brought on the tears that I've been struggling to keep back these last few days. I'm worried, it's true. Sometimes though, it just feels good to cry about it.
My midwife reminded me of Rescue Remedy, which I always forget to take when I'm feeling stressed, anxious, or high-strung. Hopefully typing this out will help me to remember it in the future.
And the last thing of note from today is that the ultrasound (where I was actually measuring 19w2d rather than 18w6d) indicated a mild case of hydronephrosis. Sounds big, fancy, and a little scary huh? Except it's not really. It indicates an elevated amount of fluid in the nephrons (sp?) of the kidneys (well, only the right kidney in baby girl's case) and is actually possible when baby just needs to go pee. Which is 99% likely to be the case, because I remember little girl's bladder was full when we had the ultrasound. If it were to indicate something bad, it could be a soft-marker for Down's Syndrome, but given that it's the only marker, and my nuchal fold scan and bloodwork showed nothing to be worried about, they're not concerned about it at all. BUT (and here's the fun part) they like to do a follow-up 4-6 weeks later anyway just to make sure all is well, so huzzah for another ultrasound! It's been 3.5 weeks since the scan, so I'm just waiting for the phone call saying when in the next 2 weeks it'll be. I'm pretty excited to go for another and see how big this little one is, and I'm even more excited for a confirmation that this little girl is, indeed, a girl. We're going to have a 3D ultrasound done, but not until I'm 30 weeks or so, so it'll be nice to have a confirmation before then.
Is it really silly that I'm excited by all of this? I think it shows how very little there is to worry about, because if there's something to worry about, I'll be the one worrying about it, and I'm not at all.
Anyway, just wanted to do a little update on that!
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