An Interesting Morning

OK, we had a small scare this weekend, but I don't want anyone to get all worried after the fact.  Everything is OK, at this time.  So no one freak out, OK?  (boy, three "OK's" in a row)

On Sunday morning I woke up with a dull back-ache and a "menstrual cramping" feeling across my abdomen.  It felt exactly the the cramps I had the week before my last miscarriage, and if you look it up in the baby book, it is listed as a symptom of miscarriage.

So we were pretty worried.  We went in to emergency where we discovered that Baby had a good, strong heartbeat.  And that my uterus was nice and soft (and thus not having hard contractions).  Which was a relief.  We did blood work and a pee test in case my symptoms were the result of a UTI, and they sent us home with instructions for me to take Tylenol for the pain and to rest and take it easy.  They scheduled me in for an ultra sound Monday (today).

We were feeling better as we drove home.  Still a bit worried, though, as my pain was continuing and as the Dr. warned that he really couldn't say one way or the other if I were indeed losing the baby.

Today we went in for the ultrasound.  I was feeling much, much better both physically and emotionally as last night the pain had greatly subsided, and this morning I no pain at all.

The ultrasound was also encouraging.  They check the baby's placenta and the mommy's cervix.  While technically the tech (hee hee, that sounds funny) can not diagnose anything, I took it as a very good sign that there was no emergency since they let me go without a doctor coming to talk to me.  My doctor gets the final report to share the details with me, but I am pretty sure that if Baby was in danger of dropping out of me any minute, they would not have sent me off without warning me and ordering me to stay off my feet.

Baby is beautiful, by the way.  I saw a face, and a brain, kidneys, a heart, bladder, tummy, arms, hands, legs, feet.  :)  I even saw the lips and nose.

Wanna know what I DIDN'T see?  Oh, I just bet you do!!  Well, first let me say that the tech warned us that the angle was not perfect, and that there is enough of a margin of error that she wouldn't record the sex of the baby on the official report.  But we all agreed (even the tech) that baby did not appear able to pee standing up!

(disclaimer) NO REFUNDS IN CASE OF DISAPPOINTMENT LATER

but....

It seems that Baby is a girl!!!!

Which was a total shock to me.  Seriously, I was in shock.  I was expecting a boy, I think.  I still can not believe it.  I wanted to tell Steve to take me out to buy the cutest little dress ever, but I was afraid Baby had tricked us.

Because I can tell you that Baby has a mind of her own.  She did what she wanted to do, and our ultrasound be hanged!  I have never had to flip and flop on an u/s table like that before.  For both boys I lay on my back and I am pretty sure I stayed there the whole time.  The tech never did get one or two of the pictures of Baby's heart that she needed, because Baby just refused to turn to the right angle for her.  I got up to pee to shift her, and while she did move, it didn't help.  I lay on my right side, and then my left side, and then my back and then my right side and then my left side.. you get the picture.  I was very amused, but now I have to go back on Friday for about 5 minutes of u/s photos.  :)

In fact, she didn't let Daddy and Caeden see her face either.  The tech got it and I saw it, but by the time the boys came in, she had firmly placed herself face down.

Hope you are still with me through all this details, I mostly put em in for the relatives who read this and actually care.  The rest of you are welcome to have snored through the play by play.

For now, Baby is moving.  I have no more cramps.  And the ultrasound tech didn't look worried.  So I am going to relax and not worry about it, unless there are further developments.  It looks to me like a false alarm.  Whew.  Thank you God.