First OBGYN Appointment
Today (March 6, 2013, 2:00pm) is our first visit with our
OBGYN. He is at the University of Utah hospital in the maternal fetal medicine.
We decided since we have buried so many babies we would go and see a
specialist. I hope we will be able to see him. They say this doctor is in high
demand and one of the best of the best. I just pray that we can have a full
term living healthy baby.
We are sitting in the waiting room and I can barely breath
because I’m so nervous and scared.
Kim how do you feel? “I feel a little nervous”!
Kim will be 8 weeks tomorrow. We are having an ultrasound
today and then we will see the doctor. I pray all goes well.
As we are waiting it’s hard not to notice all the cute round
bellies in the room. It makes me flash back to when I was last pregnant. I
would give anything to be pregnant again. However, I’m so humbled and grateful
to Kim to be selfless and brave enough to carry our little baby and her little
niece or nephew.
Omg, we just got done with the ultrasound (3:45pm). First
time in a few days we both have been able to breath. At first the ultrasound
tech said that she couldn’t see Kim’s uterus or the baby. Both Kim and I were
frozen thinking the worst. Then the tech said since she couldn’t see anything
she would do an intra-vaginal ultrasound. We were able to breath again after we
could see our baby on the ultrasound and its little heart beating away. The
baby’s heartbeat was 165. I was not able to film the ultrasound but the tech
said she would give us a picture.
Kim how are you feeling, now? “Good, just tired. I threw up
for the first time yesterday in my car as I was going to work. That wasn’t fun
but at least I’m feeling better”.
Now we are just waiting to see the doctor (4:00pm). I hope
all goes well and he isn’t too bombarded by all our questions. I told Kim that
from now on she is going to be in a wheelchair so her water or anything else can’t
break. Kim didn’t like that Idea. Ahh nuts.
Questions we want to ask the doctor
Medications
Caffeine
Ultrasounds
Due date
Activates
Can I move?
Disneyland/wheelchair
Driving
How soon can we tell if it has kidneys?
How soon can we tell if it has a cleft lip
How soon can we tell if it will survive outside the womb?
How to prevent water from breaking.
What am I measuring today?
Pain when I have my progesterone shot on a specific side and
pain shoots down my leg
Progesterone shot every day for 12 weeks, Ouch!
Then at 20 weeks to 36 weeks take a progesterone shot once a
week, whew
Baby
Baby this week is as big as a blueberry. Hands and feet are
emerging from babies developing arms and legs. 225 days to go
Kim
Do something nice for yourself, you deserve it J
Go to bed early and get plenty of rest
Take a quick 15 to 20 minute walk a day
I’m very very nervous and shaking, not sure why. Breathe
Jessica breathe, as I was trying to calm myself down.
My aunt said that your child is supposed to stress you out
when it becomes a teenager, not while still in your womb.
Now the nurse is going over Kim’s history. She is talking
about the twins and I’m trying not to cry. Ahh this history part sucks. As many
of you know we haven’t had much luck with babies in the last 29 months.
Wow, the Nurse said she had twin boys. One died of cystic
fibrosis. While in her womb he was fine but once he was born he was not able to
breathe and he passed away. The other twin is perfectly healthy and four years
old. Reminds me of Baby Cord, tears. L
As we were in the exam room waiting for the doctor the
midwife was going over Kim’s medical history. I finally said “Well, just so you
know this is my sister and she is pregnant with my biological baby. The nurse
was a little stunned and asked how this came to be. I thought to myself, uh oh
here comes the story.
I told her that in 2010 I was pregnant with my third child
who later we found out had potters
syndrome. When they induced me I was in labor for 27+ hours and bleeding
internally but nobody knew it. Next day after discharge, I collapse and they life-flight me to
the IMC. At the IMC they put in an IVC filter and started doing exploratory
surgery to see if they can find the bleed. Then my heart stopped for 90
MINUTES, Dr. Jones (Amazing doctor) had to saw open my sternum and do a double
pulmonary embolectomy. I was put on the pump (heart and lung machine) life support,
feeding tube, etc.. Once blood was going through my body again I started
to bleed again so Dr. Webb (Another Amazing Doctor) had to do an emergency
hysterectomy. Luckily leaving my ovaries in to make IVF even possible.
The midwife’s mouth and eyes were wide open. She couldn’t
believe my story. Just then the doctor came in and the midwife wanted me to
tell the doctor my History. As I was telling my death story again the doctor
interrupted me and said that he knew me, from my history, and had heard of me
and of my situation.
Omg, really ??Holy
cow I cant believe he has heard of my case since it happened at the IMC. I
guess this whole hospital knows about my case and what happened in 2010. I
heard they would call down to the IMC and ask if I had passed away. When they
heard that I made it they couldn’t believe it. These are highly trained
professional doctors and they couldn’t believe I was alive.
Wow, I love to hear stories like that because this just
proves that miracle’s still do happen.
Here are some pictures from today:
I'm taking notes for the visit today.
Kim is very tired and has no energy.
Smiling, waiting to see the Doctor.
Gestational Calendar.
Say cheese!
Waiting to get Kim's blood drawn
