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My Due Date: December 25, 2016I have given birth!
Age: 40 years old
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Wow...so long!
By karmicdharma » Posted Aug. 13, 2016 3:01pm - 362 views - 0 comments
I haven't updated here for a long time. I am now in week 21 and I am feeling it for sure. I feel like this baby should be much bigger than it is. Side note: I hate calling the baby "it" but I have no other choice since the babe has so kindly decided to be uber difficult every time we have an ultrasound. This is surely my child, oh boy! I've been joking that I'm going to start calling the baby "smalls" because it's killing me! haha
So, at my first trimester scan they were taking all the measurements for the nuchal translucency test and I also had blood work then. All of the blood work came back excellent and most of the scan did too. I say most because the one measurement they did was on the high side of normal at 3.2mm. I forget what that measurement was called, but there you go. Because of this I had to go for a fetal echo to determine if there is a heart defect, which is very unlikely but they are doing the test as a precaution. I went yesterday (Aug. 12) and I was told it was too early to have the scan done and it should have been scheduled for a later date. They don't want to see my back for 3-4 weeks. This is very frustrating. Not because I am worried about the results because I feel that everything is just fine, but because it was a waste of my time and I had to take a day off work. My doc, which I really like, tried to get me scheduled again in just 2 weeks and I had to stop him because I told him what the cardiac person said about the 3-4 week wait and I insisted he wait until that time to have it rescheduled because I didn't like taking time off for no reason.
So, here we are at 21 weeks. My back is killing me, my pelvic area is sore all the time and I've been getting frequent headaches. All of these women keep telling me that any day now I'll feel this burst of energy and feel amazing. Yeah, don't think that's happening. I mostly feel miserable and it doesn't help that I still haven't felt baby move. That's disappointing. However, I was told that I have an anterior placenta so that accounts for the not feeling anything. This also concerns me a little because if it doesn't grow in the right way, I could be faced with a c-section against my wishes. I am not looking forward to that because I am afraid the healing process will be awful because I am a plus sized woman. Also, I feel like the healing process will take away from bonding with baby. Ugh. Guess I'm just whiny today.
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Wow...so long!
By karmicdharma » Posted Aug. 13, 2016 3:01pm - 362 views - 0 comments
I haven't updated here for a long time. I am now in week 21 and I am feeling it for sure. I feel like this baby should be much bigger than it is. Side note: I hate calling the baby "it" but I have no other choice since the babe has so kindly decided to be uber difficult every time we have an ultrasound. This is surely my child, oh boy! I've been joking that I'm going to start calling the baby "smalls" because it's killing me! haha
So, at my first trimester scan they were taking all the measurements for the nuchal translucency test and I also had blood work then. All of the blood work came back excellent and most of the scan did too. I say most because the one measurement they did was on the high side of normal at 3.2mm. I forget what that measurement was called, but there you go. Because of this I had to go for a fetal echo to determine if there is a heart defect, which is very unlikely but they are doing the test as a precaution. I went yesterday (Aug. 12) and I was told it was too early to have the scan done and it should have been scheduled for a later date. They don't want to see my back for 3-4 weeks. This is very frustrating. Not because I am worried about the results because I feel that everything is just fine, but because it was a waste of my time and I had to take a day off work. My doc, which I really like, tried to get me scheduled again in just 2 weeks and I had to stop him because I told him what the cardiac person said about the 3-4 week wait and I insisted he wait until that time to have it rescheduled because I didn't like taking time off for no reason.
So, here we are at 21 weeks. My back is killing me, my pelvic area is sore all the time and I've been getting frequent headaches. All of these women keep telling me that any day now I'll feel this burst of energy and feel amazing. Yeah, don't think that's happening. I mostly feel miserable and it doesn't help that I still haven't felt baby move. That's disappointing. However, I was told that I have an anterior placenta so that accounts for the not feeling anything. This also concerns me a little because if it doesn't grow in the right way, I could be faced with a c-section against my wishes. I am not looking forward to that because I am afraid the healing process will be awful because I am a plus sized woman. Also, I feel like the healing process will take away from bonding with baby. Ugh. Guess I'm just whiny today.
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