First OBGYN Appointment

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