Testing Fate Once Again
Dec. 20th, 2006 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpWe had another ultrasound today. With an OB. The head of the practice, actually. He was awfully nice.
He wanted to do an internal ultrasound today. It was painful because of the awful internal I had in the inky morning. But...
Our baby is totally hanging in there. I don't know how that's possible, but s/he was doing that fetus thing. He didn't take measurements or measure the heart rate, but there was definitely a heartbeat, and eyes (with eyelids!), and because it was an internal you could really see the individual fingers. Wacky.
He couldn't find any evidence of the subchorionic hematoma and couldn't find a physical reason for the bleeding. His theory is that my body is really confused by the lost twin, because it hasn't started to reabsorb at all. He thinks my body doesn't know what to do with it. I don't know if that's true but whatever. He said we were definitely not out of the woods, especially with the heavy bleeding, but that he would expect that if we were going to miscarry, it would have happened already. But he was very cautious.
He wanted to bump my appointment up a week but because of scheduling, I'm going in on Friday, Jan 5 instead of Monday, Jan 9. So not too much different, but he wants me to have another ultrasound done as well.
We're still bleeding today, possibly from the jarring internal ultrasound, but we're hopeful at least for today. We're thinking of renting a doppler to put our minds at ease, even though I swore I would never do that.
He wanted to do an internal ultrasound today. It was painful because of the awful internal I had in the inky morning. But...
Our baby is totally hanging in there. I don't know how that's possible, but s/he was doing that fetus thing. He didn't take measurements or measure the heart rate, but there was definitely a heartbeat, and eyes (with eyelids!), and because it was an internal you could really see the individual fingers. Wacky.
He couldn't find any evidence of the subchorionic hematoma and couldn't find a physical reason for the bleeding. His theory is that my body is really confused by the lost twin, because it hasn't started to reabsorb at all. He thinks my body doesn't know what to do with it. I don't know if that's true but whatever. He said we were definitely not out of the woods, especially with the heavy bleeding, but that he would expect that if we were going to miscarry, it would have happened already. But he was very cautious.
He wanted to bump my appointment up a week but because of scheduling, I'm going in on Friday, Jan 5 instead of Monday, Jan 9. So not too much different, but he wants me to have another ultrasound done as well.
We're still bleeding today, possibly from the jarring internal ultrasound, but we're hopeful at least for today. We're thinking of renting a doppler to put our minds at ease, even though I swore I would never do that.
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Date: 2006-12-21 04:02 am (UTC)I can't even express the enormity of my relief. I was pretty stressed. Not that any of this is about me. But it's true.
Re: The internal ultrasound.
The condom distresses me in ways I can't explain.
HOORAY FOR THE BABY.
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Date: 2006-12-21 02:13 pm (UTC)Thank you for caring. I really appreciate it.
As for the condom, I appreciated it yesterday because I was really gross up in the parts.
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Date: 2006-12-21 02:51 pm (UTC)also, i felt really uncomfortable the time the guy asked me to put it in.
speaking of inappropriate: this conversation in your celebratory post. sorry, man. :D
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Date: 2006-12-21 02:55 pm (UTC)I've had so many because of all the ovulation-induction drugs that I hardly notice it anymore.
Let's get it on!!!
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Date: 2006-12-21 03:06 pm (UTC)(opening riff. you try to spell it.)