Prenatal appointment #2

Anthony and I met at the doctor this morning for our second prenatal appointment.

I really like my doctor, she always takes the time to see how you're doing, asks if you have any questions/concerns to discuss with you, and generally chats about life while doing routine procedures (bp, etc).

We got to hear the baby's heartbeat with the fetal doppler machine, Anthony was able to detect it before i did, it was a lot of swishing and sounded like a pulsating swish. We heard my heartbeat too, of the main artery carrying blood to the uterus, i can TOTALLY understand now how the baby would get really used to that and find it very comforting.

Dr. was explaining that baby's heart is only a few millimetres big - how amazing is that! So of course it was quite faint, especially compared to my throbbing artery.

She had one of those teeny baby feet pins on her lapel, and was showing us that our baby's feet are just slightly bigger than those ones right now (the pin is 10 weeks, we're at 12.5).

But other than that, everything is fine.....weight gain was good, i thought it would be more than it was, so that was a nice surprise. I asked her about the drive to Montana, and i'm supposed to get out for a few minutes and walk around the car every hour to hour and a half. So that will prolong the 10 hour drive probably by about an hour...sigh. But well worth it to keep my circulation up and avoid blood clots, etc.

Oh, and she said not to worry about trying to sleep on my left side (i know it's early for needing to do that yet...) i have a bad left shoulder that makes lying on that side quite painful and achey when i wake up.

Overall, all is well, next appointment: Jan 22. I will be able to fully enjoy the three (plus) turkey dinners we're having next week, the family steak dinner (for my parent's retirement), and the wedding feast, and then will have three weeks to walk it off so i don't gain "too much" over this next month!

Oh, almost forgot - going for the standard bloodwork this afternoon, i'm off early so i'll just pop over to the RUH clinic and get it done before i forget in the bustle of the season - no need for fasting or stuff for this round of bloodwork. And no ultrasound referral yet, i'm sure that will come at the next appointment at 16 weeks, i think they aim to do it sometime between 16 and 20 if all is going well.