Today we had our second doctor’s appointment. I had to change our time and day a couple times because Mike was leaving for Superior, MT for a softball tournament earlier than he expected, so we had to schedule with a different nurse practitioner. Mike was hesitant about this, but I thought it was good since Women’s Health is a practice with a bunch of different nurse practitioners and doctors, and you never know who is going to be on call when you go into labor. So it’s good to get to know as many of them as you can so a stranger isn’t delivering your baby. We got to the office, and it was the typical routine. Pee in a cup (which I have down to an art form), wait for them to call you back to a room, and sit in the room and wait forever. The room they took us back to was different this time, and we were a little worried that we weren’t going to have the ultrasound as promised. But there was ultrasound goo in the room, so we were confused. We were in the room awhile waiting for our new chick, named Sarah, so we had time to look around the room. They had a little table set up with different testing and poking and proding instruments on it. I didn’t want one of ‘those’ appointments again, so I was hoping that stuff wasn’t for me. One of the testing things on the table was something called Colonscreen. I prayed to GOD this wasn’t for me. Of course, Mike was giggling like a little kid. Also in the room, there were what I like to call vagina action figures, but they are just the 3D version of a vagina for educational purposes. The purposes of these vagina action figures were to show the different types of birth control. I explained each of them to Mike, and he didn’t like the idea of any of them, especially the IUD. Sarah finally came in and joked around with us. Mike was wearing one of his Steelers shirts and she told him she can’t be our nurse if he’s a Steelers fan. I liked her a lot. She told me to lay back so we could hear the baby’s heartbeat with the doppler (which explained the ultrasound goo), but I stopped her. I told her about how during our last ultrasound, LeAnn saw what could’ve been another baby, so Sarah immediately moved us to an ultrasound room. Mike and I were excited to see our baby again, but nervous to see if we did in fact have twins. Sarah came in and lubed up my belly. She couldn’t get a very good picture, so she started to undo my pants and said, “Bet you’ve never had a girl undo your pants before.” See? Funny. Anyways, she got a better picture and we saw our little baby jumping around, but she still couldn’t be sure if it was another baby or not. She decided to send us to a super-duper ultrasound place so we would know for sure. They couldn’t get us in until later that afternoon, so I just took the rest of the day off. We ran some errands and went back to Deaconess. It was in the same place that Kate had to get her gallbladder looked at a couple of years ago. The girl doing the ultrasound was very sweet, and even said she was going to try to the 3D ultrasound (awesome!) She started through my stomach, which meant that I couldn’t use the bathroom forever and the extra pressure on my bladder almost made me explode. She said that she could get a clearer picture if she used the vaginal probe, so she had me insert it (which was odd) and instantly we saw our baby clear as day. It was wiggling around like crazy, which made me cry. Mike was asking a bunch of questions, and it was then I realized that Mike thought the baby was just floating around inside my uterus all willy nilly and didn’t know about the umbilical cord. I thought it was very cute.
She tried to do some 3D pictures, but they just looked like a little blob. The 2D ones were much clearer. We could make out its entire body, including its huge head, which scared me. Mainly because I know how big Mike’s head is. She told us that there is definitely only one baby in there, and as far as they could tell they couldn’t see anything else, which was very good news, but she said to call the doctor tomorrow after they had reviewed the ultrasound just to make sure. She put the pictures on the disc
for us and sent us on our merry way.
I called the doctor’s office the next day, and they told us everything looked perfect. They said that the blood clot probably just dissolved on its own since it didn’t show up on the super duper ultrasound. We were both very happy about this, and got some cool pictures in the process.
