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My Due Date: March 4, 2018
I am postpartum » My due date was more than 2 weeks ago
Age: 32 years old

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7 weeks
By alexism4 » Posted Jul. 19, 2017 3:29pm - 271 views - 0 comments

Today I am 7 weeks 5 days and not doing too bad! The day I turned 7 weeks I had my first ultrasound and saw my little bean! She (I feel so strongly it's a girl) measured 6w5d, and the doctor said her heartbeat was perfect.

That appointment was not a good one for me. I was the very last patient of the day on a Friday and it was obvious to me that the doctor just wanted to get out of there. He rushed through my medication list and when I asked him to prescribe me Zofran for the severe nausea I'd been having (not much vomiting thanks to the stash of Zofran I got from my sister) he said he wouldn't do it. I understand why, he said Zofran is linked to heart defects even though every woman I know who has taken it during pregnancy have perfectly healthy babies and the vast majority of women online who comment say that their babies were fine. I understand the risks, and I'm okay with that if it means I don't end up in the hospital. Anyway, the appointment was very rushed and he spent maybe two minutes on the ultrasound in total just getting measurements. I don't know what the bpm for the heartbeat was because he went so fast, all he said was that it was "perfect." I left that appointment immensely disappointed and cried when I got home.

The next day I didn't take any Zofran, just to get a good measure of how sick I was without it and as soon as I got out of bed I was vomiting every hour. I took stock of how much Zofran I had and figured out that if I took the lowest dose once a day only on the days I work and not on the weekends, I have enough to last me until the second trimester when the doctor said he would give it to me. So far that's been enough to keep me from throwing up at work, but I still feel sick most days.

My next appointment will be when I'm 9w5d but I don't know if I'm seeing the same doctor or not. I decided I'm not going to go back to him if I can help it since it was obvious to me that his time was more important to him than his patients. So far this pregnancy has just been a big disappointing experience and I'm just praying it's just a rocky start and it'll get better.

The day I was throwing up every hour, my husband really got to see the full extent of what I have to deal with and it freaked him out. He saw that I was throwing up everything, even water, and immediately went into "fix it" mode. He was researching hyperemesis gravidarum (which I have not been diagnosed with thanks to Zofran) and what treatment options there were. He asked me what women with it did before modern medicine. I told him they died (look up Charlotte Bronte) and the look on his face was like a deer in the headlights. He swore that I would never do this again, that he will never put me through this kind of sickness again. Dramatic, yes, but I agree with him. I know that the only reason I have not been more sick is because of the huge amount of preparation I did and the Zofran my sister gave me. Knowing now that it is incredibly difficult to get a doctor to prescribe Zofran in the first trimester, I don't think I could do this again. And I'm okay with that. We never wanted a lot of children in the first place, so having an only child seems to be our plan. We'll see how sick I'll get this weekend with no meds. Hopefully not bad and I can stop taking Zofran altogether. Fingers crossed!

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