Friday, January 22, 2010
Better.
Life has improved in the last two days since it seems the 24/7 nausea has gone away. The acid reflux is annoying, but mostly manageable. I have finally gotten off the couch and am starting to put life back together again.
The baby seems well. Ben and I listened to the heartbeat last night and it was nearly 180... so nice and fast and strong!
I am entertaining the idea of getting the nuchal fold scan between 11-14 weeks just so I can get another peek at Three and maybe some nice pics. After Katie's experience (with a potentially wrong call on the gender), I probably won't ask for a guess at that info then, it'd just be nice to see the baby again. The deal I have to make with myself though is that if the numbers come back with any red flags, I WILL NOT have an amnio or CVS. That may be hard if it were to come down to it. So, we'll have to see what decision I end up making there. I've never had the nuchal scan before... but again, this is my last go round, so the more pictures the better. My doctor really discourages it though, so she may try to talk me out of it...
Just trying to soak it all in and appreciate and embrace the parts of pregnancy that DON'T suck.
The baby seems well. Ben and I listened to the heartbeat last night and it was nearly 180... so nice and fast and strong!
I am entertaining the idea of getting the nuchal fold scan between 11-14 weeks just so I can get another peek at Three and maybe some nice pics. After Katie's experience (with a potentially wrong call on the gender), I probably won't ask for a guess at that info then, it'd just be nice to see the baby again. The deal I have to make with myself though is that if the numbers come back with any red flags, I WILL NOT have an amnio or CVS. That may be hard if it were to come down to it. So, we'll have to see what decision I end up making there. I've never had the nuchal scan before... but again, this is my last go round, so the more pictures the better. My doctor really discourages it though, so she may try to talk me out of it...
Just trying to soak it all in and appreciate and embrace the parts of pregnancy that DON'T suck.
// posted by Erin @ 2:25 PM 
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I was never offered the nuchal fold so I can't comment on that but I always turned down the triple screen for the same reasons you cited - I wouldn't have done the additional testing and didn't want the extra worry since in most cases, things turn out to be okay and it's worrying for nothing. Granted I knew there was always a small possibility of not finding out until the mid-term ultrasound that something was wrong but I just couldn't put myself through the anxiety of testing when no matter what, we were having the baby. Although I totally understand wanting to see the baby again - I was secretly happy when Caroline's first ultrasound was so bad - we got a 2nd one. They were never 100% with her on the gender though.
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