15 weeks and loads of stress

So today I had my 15 week appt. (actually I am 15 weeks 6 days) and we had a bit of a scare. SInce many of you might not know the in's & outs of Naval Hospital Life I'll give you a a bit of a background. If you are seen at the Naval hospital and you are a normal (or routine) pregnancy then you will only be seen by a midwife (not a big deal, I saw then with both Andrew and Iz) you can only make an appt with an OB if you are a complicated OB patient. So when I had my last appt (which was just my physical and was with an RN) I asked if I could see a specific OB to "check in" with her. She was the one who treated me when we lost the baby in 07, and she was the one who listened to me and decided to send me to an RE. The RN had no problem with it and the appt was made with her today.

At my last appt my BP was high, which for me is odd because my BP is never high. In fact it was taken the week before I found out I was pregnant and was well within normal and at 7 weeks was perfect too. I attributed it to the fact that it was at our 11 week physical in 07 that the nurse couldn't find the heartbeat, but told us not to worry because we were getting an ultrasound that afternoon. Turns out all was not ok, so I figured that was a big part of it.

The appt went ok, but the nurse again couldn't find a heartbeat. This time instead of doing an ultrasound she said since I had one the week prior that she'd just have me come in in 4 weeks instead of the normal 6 (like that was supposed to ease my fears or something.

Back to today I had the follow-up appt. Again I was super worried that something might have went wrong, so again my BP was high (145/71) So now my OB decided to do some base bloodwork and do a 24 hour urine catch (whoo hoo right!) We are hoping everything is ok, and our trip next week is not affected!

Anyway back to the appt, so she pulls out the doppler and goes to find the heartbeat, she assures me that she probably won't find it (thanks to scar tissue and flab ...lol) but that if she doesn't she'll pull the portable u/s machine in. She searches and I swear she's trying to dig into my old c-section scar, no heartbeat. So she goes and gets the portable u/s machine and before she starts she says I hate this machine it never gives good pictures. so she looks and again...nothing.

She says lets pop down the hallway and do a regular ultrasound. So we trek down the hallway kids in tow to the u/s room. Now the naval hospital has strict policies regarding u/s and kids. Kids are not allowed in the room for any reason (or that's what the flyer on the door says. But alas, my kids are allowed to come inside and sit in chairs.

The u/s tech goops me up and low and behold there is the little heart just flickering away. Can you see why my BP is high?!?!?!

So thankfully I feel much better and much more relaxed. So I head to the lab to do my blood work. We get finished and head home. We arrive home and the phone rings. They apparently drew my blood into the wrong tube (again....this makes twice this pregnancy they used the wrong tubes) so now when I go in to drop off my urine I have to have another set of bloodwork done. Thank goodness I have good veins :)

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13 weeks down

We've officially reached the 2nd trimester. Morning sickness has been replaced with after I eat sickness. I also have a huge aversion raw chicken. I am supposed to go do an early gestational diabetes test because my babies were large but I haven't yet. It's hard to get the energy to drag a 4 & 2 year old to the hospital to sit in the waiting room for 1 hour. Mike is supposed to have a long weekend so hopefully I'll be able to get it done over the holiday.

The weather is going crazy...80 one day then a low of 31 the next. No wonder my allergies are going haywire. Andrew had a soccer game this weekend. He did so good! We previously had a problem with him pushing other kids, but after a long talk and no ice cream after the game I think he finally got the idea that it isn't football.