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| Wed, 01-02-2008 - 10:51am |
It turns out that when the receptionist called me at 9 in the morning last week, that I was half asleep and heard the wrong date for my appt. the appt. was this morning and they did an ultrasound and now we have a due date. The "guess the due date" contest is running until tomorrow so I won't post anything as far as details until tomorrow.....k? I want to be fair to everyone. I can tell you that Stephen and I have decided to tell his parents about this baby tonight since I have a follow-up appt. in 2 weeks and his mom will figure out what is going on so it just makes sense to tell them now to avoid hurt feelings. More to come tomorrow evening after the contest is over. :)




























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AGH!
Yaaay, you have a due date!
Ok that is cruel Jenn!!! Very cruel!!! You have to go ahead and tell today!!! I don���t think anyone will mind!!!
Well, if one of the Cls say it is ok to post...then that is what I will do. ....even though the blinkie for the contest hasn't been made yet. ;)
I'll post the winner first AND THEN I'll come back and post the full update. :)
 
Oh I love having power and authority!!! Meehaww!!! (Evil Laugh)
OK...so I go in for the ultrasound and the MFM is still with his first appt. for the morning. He had given the tech instructions of what he wanted done. So, the first thing done was to measure the cervix.....a WONDERFULLY LONG beautiful cervix!!! I full 4 cm!! The tech went in vaginally to get that measurement (which is common) and the second she went in I could see the head and I'm thinking "boy....she zoomed in really closely for this measurement" b/c the head was soo big! Measurements gotten, out comes probe (thank goodness...I don't like that thing!). Next, she puts the goop on my belly and says she's going to be doing measurements and anatomy....which is a great surprise because we were originally just going to get the basic measurements for a due date and be done. She find the head and measures....DH looks shocked....I can't find the age of the baby based on measurement part on the screen. She takes a picture and moves on. Next is the arm....oh...there's the age of baby based on measurements.....woah...."maybe it just has really long arms" I say. DH still looks shocked....I'm finding this all kind of humorous. She takes another measurement of something....I can't remember what....and then says "do you want to know the gender?" I'm shocked...I'm far enough that a gender can be seen....holy moly. "no" I say. "Ok" she says "your due date is May 14th and that puts you at exactly 21 weeks today" "WHAT?! 21 weeks???....and how long was the cervix????" "4 cm" she says. I have never gone past 18 weeks without my cervix doing something ridiculous. More measurements...more pictures of baby...there's the hand...foot....stomach...brain....face....lips.....all 21 weeks of baby!!! Just amazing. Ultrasound get finished and I clean up. Dr. Maslow (MFM) comes in all smiles....joking that DH and I don't believe in waiting a little bit between children. "The cervix looks GREAT" he says..."and I have no way to explain that". He is apparently thinking the same thing as us....that it is a miracle this baby hasn't come yet. He also informs us that it is really too late to put a cerclage in and that he wants to see me back in 2 weeks to look at things again. No bedrest ordered because the cervix looks "perfect". But strict orders that if I feel ANYTHING out of the ordinary that I'm supposed to go in right away to have things looked at. Ok...I can do that...I know what it feels like when things are "falling apart". DH and I figured out that i got pregnant 8 weeks after Maddie was born. I'm now realizing that some spotting that I had about that time was most likely implantation spotting and not AF trying to come as I thought....which is ironic because DH even teased that that was what it was instead of AF.
We have decided to tell his parents tonight since his dad is leaving this weekend for Alaska (will be there for 6 weeks). We could just not tell them, but if this baby comes as early as Maddie did, then it would come while he was away, so it's just best to get this out of the way. His mom would surely figure things out when I started going to the doctor all of the time. So, IF his parents are not in pissy moods tonight, then we will tell them. If they are in pissy moods, then I'm just going to tell Stephen to wait in telling them. We got a picture of baby's foot that looks almost exactly like a picture we got of Maddie's foot. So we're going to pull both pictures out and ask them to find the difference in the two pictures (difference being the date of the u/s). We don't know when we are going to tell my parents...they live far away so we are trying to think of a way to tell them.
Maddie's 4 year old cousin is going to be soo jealous. She has been bugging her mom and dad for a little brother or sister for months now and here Maddie is going to get one before her. We haven't even thought about telling them yet. I still and soo surprised that I am this far along. I'm still in my regular jeans for goodness sakes!....although when I have to pee, they are REALLY uncomfy! I thought about not telling anyone else, but I think it would be rather strange if all of a sudden some kid pops out and goes to the NICU for weeks and nobody knew about it.
So, there is the update per the order of the cl's. ;) ;) LOL! Congratulations to Coach Jenn! She guessed the closest with May 16th. ....your blinkie is being made.
 
OMG!!! Jenn! I can't believe how far along you are! That is fantastic! Congrats on the perfect cervix too, LOL! I am very sad that I didn't win ; ), but so happy for you that you are doing so well! Good luck telling the in-laws tonight.
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Jenn,
I am still sitting here in major shock that you are 21 weeks and everything is looking good!
Hugs,
Jenn
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