Sonogram #2

It is Friday morning and of course as usual we are running late to leave the house, so we are racing toward St. Agnes once again! At least this time we know where we are going, and have no doubts as to the best route to get to where we need to be!

We walk in the door and after a VERY short wait, are escorted back to the sonogram room. The tech has me pull my clothes away and starts the sonogram. She explains that this test is looking for signs of Down's Syndrome and Chromosomes 13 and 18. As she began the sonogram, we were in awe - it looks like a baby this time!


The changes in just 4 weeks are amazing and totally blew us away - we knew we were having a baby, but this sure does make it seem real!

The baby did not want to show us the back of his/her neck, so it took some maneuvering around on my part and waiting for cooperation! During the down time, this is the picture Lee took!

We realize we are not supposed to take any pictures during the exam, but no one told us we could not when the doctor left the room! They give us sonogram pictures but not printouts of the data as seen below...

Our next appointment with Dr. Boykin (OB) is coming up on October 6 - at this appointment she should be able to feel my uterus and hear the baby's heartbeat in her office! The following day we have our third appointment at the Diabetes Center! The weeks are moving quickly - 27 more weeks to go after this week!

Diabetes Center

This is just another appointment that has been made for me and I have been told I need to keep... Not much happened today, we talked about my food journals, sugar levels and insulin regimen and all seems good on the front.

Amy - the dietitian, pointed out that I need to look at the big picture of ALL the sugar levels and not get upset over a couple that are slightly out of range. They are going to keep varying not only because of food choices, but also because my hormone levels fluctuate day to day during pregnancy.

No changes in insulin at this time - 36 units of NPH in the morning, and then 14 until NPH at bedtime seems to keep the sugar levels in check. I do find myself NEEDING the every 2 hour meals or the do end up dipping lower than my comfort levels, but so far that mostly seems to only happen during the day when I do not eat soon enough - or at night if I do a high carb, low protein snack before bed...

It is all a guessing game, I don't go back for a month, we will see what happens!

Visit Number Two With The OB

Everything seems fine with the baby! Not really sure what exactly the OB appointments are for - she does a urine sample, so my guess is that she is going to monitor my hormone levels each month until later in the pregnancy, right now she just asks how everything is going, answers any of my questions and pokes my lower belly to see if she can feel the baby - she said she usually cannot until week 16, and of course she could not feel anything inside me yet...

Today's visit was pretty quiet without any real information although she did tell me we should not make any travel plans more than 2 weeks in advance and even then we need to plan on taking travel insurance because anything can change at any time during a high risk pregnancy.

Blood Pressure was good at this point, 114/72 so all is good until our next visit! Tomorrow I get to go back to the Diabetes Center and next Friday is our next sonogram!

I will be past my first trimester on Saturday, September 10th!