8 weeks!

See that sweet blob? It has a heartbeat!!

I had my appointment with the MFM - the high risk OB - this morning. I got another ultrasound and saw my baby again. I am loving all of this extra monitoring I am getting this time around. After the ultrasound I met with Dr. Sumners. I love that man. He's smart, funny, knows his stuff, and he's kind. He agreed with my regular OB's recommendations of continuing the Lovenox/heparin shots and starting progesterone shots at 16 weeks and continuing those weekly until 34 weeks. The only thing he mentioned that was different from my regular OB is that starting at 18 weeks they will begin regular checks of my cervix in hopes of catching any preterm labor signs early.

So here are my upcoming appointments:

3/15 - u/s and appt with my regular OB
4/2 - NT Scan and appt with MFM

Seems like I'm seeing a doctor about every two weeks! It is a good thing that I work from home and can be very flexible about going to appointments.

I'm still toying with announcing this pregnancy on Facebook. I will wait a few more weeks - maybe until after the NT scan in April. I mean, these first 8 weeks have gone by so fast, three or four more won't be too awful either.

Okay, enough about the future baby. Want to hear how Zane is doing? For the longest time my weird son has called me Jen ("den" is how it sounds). This weekend, he finally started calling me Mama again! Oh that just melts my heart. Seriously, I've been working with that kid for months on saying mamamama. I mean, "Mama" was his first word! So to hear him start saying it again was my favorite moment.

A blob!!!

This morning, Jeremy and I went for our first ultrasound of this pregnancy. There was a blob! With a heartbeat! And it had all the necessary parts for this point in our pregnancy - the yolk sac, the fetal pole, a heartbeat, and the blob.

There was only one baby. The ultrasound tech looked around very carefully, so there is no doubt that she missed another baby. Therefore any family member who tries to joke with me and tell me I'm going to have twins is going to get slapped. (I had one particular family member last time tell me I was going to be surprised with two babies at delivery, despite NUMEROUS ultrasounds showing just one baby.... I really wanted to slap her. This time she's being warned.)

The little blob had a heart rate of 138 beats per minute. That is just about perfect for as far along as I am (7 weeks and 4 days, by the way). We also met with my OB after the ultrasound to go over things. We didn't really learn anything new, except that she confirmed my due date as 10/14/2012. (I had 10/15, and the u/s said 10/15, but based on my last menstrual period my due date would be 10/14) My OB said "Who doesn't want to have a due date on day sooner?" I like her. :-)

My next appointment is on Monday with the high risk OB. My regular OB wants me to see the high risk guy because she just wants another opinion on my care this pregnancy. I'm not complaining. I like the extra monitoring, since I'll get another ultrasound on Monday! It is not that my regular OB isn't confident she can provide the care I need, she just wants the high risk OB to reaffirm her course of treatment and/or tell her if he would do something different.

Oh, and if I can ever get my printer's scanner to work, I'll post a picture of the blob.