Wednesday, January 21, 2009

11 weeks and counting!


Well, we are officially only 1 weeks away from getting into that 2nd trimester. it's been a crazy ride. I'm still so anxious about everything. Even though things are going really well and we've had nothing but good news - I have had so many friends in the last few months lost their babies much later into their 2nd trimester and it really scares me. I don't think we'll be out of the woods until I'm in labor and that baby is screaming in my arms.
Yesterday right before our 11 week ultrasound my boss told me that a co-worker who had been trying to get pregnant as long as I had and was finally there and 18 weeks along had lost her baby over the weekend. A few months ago another co-worker lost twins at 16 weeks. I guess you just have to take the pregnancy in stride and hope to make it through until that baby can survive on it's own outside the womb.
Yesterday was our last appointment at the fertility clinic - we have now officially graduated to a regular OB who we will see on the 30th.
Yesterday Mom and Mike both got to join me at the ultrasound and I was hoping they would see that baby moving around but it was so asleep (but that heart was going strong!) the doctor even tried to wake it up but it was not having any of that.
Here's the latest picture....it's starting to look like an actual baby now! when I told the Dr. about my anxiety over still losing this baby she said she understood and it was natural because of my past experiences so she told me to make up that I had bad cramps and ask for an ultrasound every couple of weeks to watch the progress. We'll see how far my mind can go without freaking out before I resort to that.
The baby is now 45mm long and is measuring at 11 weeks and 5 days even though I was only 11 weeks.....a big baby!

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