Appt Date: September 17, 2009
Weight - Down 2 lbs in 5 weeks
BP - Normal (Can’t remember exact stats)
Heartbeat - Didn’t find this with the doctor, as we had our anatomy scan before the appointment and everything was perfect.
Instructions from doctor - Get flu shot and come back in 4 weeks.  Easy enough?

We also had our “big ultrasound” which was fun to watch the baby squirming around on the screen.  At the time of the appointment the baby was weighing in at a whopping 11 ounces, almost 3/4 of a pound.  Crazy to think that in the next 20 weeks the baby will gain 6 to 7 more pounds (um, lets hope it’s no more than that)

We also found out that we’re having a ... 

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Appt Date: August 14th
Weight - Down 1 lb in 4 weeks
BP - 120/70
Heartbeat - Found w/ doppler - last visit required ultrasound - 150bpm
Instructions from doctor - Get more protein in diet, drink more milk - he said everything looks picture perfect and to keep doing what I’m doing, but with more protein and milk

Next Appt - September 17th for anatomy scan (we’ll find out the baby’s sex yay!) with follow up OB appt w/ doctor

There was also some crazy waiting room drama w/ a patient that had called to have her records sent to a home birth clinic a few weeks ago, and then went ape shit when her appts w/ OB clinic had been canceled (her appts were for an ultrasound and glucose test) umm, well, when you call and have your records transferred, you can’t expect them to keep seeing you, can you? Overall it was a big misscommunication between patient and clinic, but it was interesting to see how irate a pregnant woman can get

Mom Update:

Mom had surgery on Friday the 17th to remove her sigmoid colon and a 4 inch tumor as well as 19 lymph nodes in the area.  All looks well, and the surgeon thinks her cancer is somewhere between stage 2 and 3 (there are 5 stages, 0 through 4) but will know more details next week after he presents her case to “the tumor board”.  She’s still in the hospital and will likely get to go home tomorrow.  I’ve gone up and visited her during lunch this week, and each day she looks and feels much better.  She started eating actual solid foods yesterday, so I’m sure that’s helping her feel better too!  Today she was in her own nightgown, and I took my lunch to the hospital and we ate in the waiting lounge on her floor rather than the room.  I think it was nice for her to get out and around!

Baby Update:

I had my 10 week checkin with the doctor on the 17th as well, and he said everything looks fine.  I lost 6 lbs in 3 weeks which he wasn’t too thrilled about, but wasn’t worried either.  I’m not actively TRYING to lose weight, I just have a lot of extra padding for the baby to live off of for a while, ya know?  He couldn’t get a heartbeat with the doppler so he brought in the little ultrasound machine and found TicTac just hanging out, saw the heartbeat and tried to wake the baby up with no luck.  Hopefully when I go back in 3 weeks for my 14 week update we can hear the heartbeat on the doppler.  I also get my full anatomy scan on September 17th and we should be able to find out the sex then.  Yay!!

Vacation Update:

Vegas was fun and hot.  More to update about that later.