First Ultrasound!

6 weeks

This weekend we had a very scary incident, but let me give the results first: a heartbeat of 109 bpm and our first picture of little bambino.

As I’ve whined about, our first ultrasound wasn’t scheduled until May 17^th.  That changed because Saturday afternoon while shopping with Katie and Whitney (who we still haven’t told), I went to the restroom and found quite a bit of blood.  Being that I was in public and a delicate situation with my inlaws, I tried my best to not freak out, but I don’t remember much else about the day and probably didn’t do a good job of acting normal.  As soon as we met up with the men, I gave Ben a look and said it was time to go.  Luckily, he caught my drift, and we left pretty quickly.  I completely broke down in the car as I told him what was going on.  We decided to get comfort foods then pile up pillows and blankets on the couch and have a tv night in.  I also called the Emergency doctor on call for our ob group.  The first thing he said was that I was displaying signs of a miscarriage.  He said if that was happening, there was nothing we could do about it.  He offered to meet me at the ER and do an ultrasound for peace of mind, but with not being 6 weeks yet, an ultrasound may not be able to see anything either way. 

Since there was nothing we could do, we opted to wait until Monday morning (our 6 week mark) and go in first thing.  The office did a good job at fitting us in quickly.  Ben and I had prepared ourselves for the worst, but the wait (even though it wasn’t too long) was miserable. 

When we were called back, we told our doctor what had happened, so she went with us to the ultrasound room.  They got everything ready, and as soon as it was on the big screen, I could see where the baby was, but I had no idea if it looked ok.  The tech had me hold my breath for a second, and up popped a heartbeat!  The doctor looked at everything and said there was no blood in the uterus and the baby had a good heartbeat, so everything looked fine.  They don’t know why I had bleeding, but they said the baby looks fine, and seeing the heartbeat is a big hurdle to cross. 

As soon as she saw everything was fine, the ultrasound was over.  Since we had been fit it, there was no time for us to sit and marvel at what we had just seen.  The doctor and tech quickly left the room, and Ben and I just looked shocked/excited at each other.  I don’t think the awesomeness of it really had time to set in.  I would guess we didn’t see the ultrasound for more than 3-5 minutes.  Since we were at the office, they went ahead and had us visit the nurse that was going to do our appointment for Thursday, so we wouldn’t have to come back. 

Unfortunately, there was miscommunication somewhere, and I found myself with a needle in my arm and another 8 vials of blood shorter AGAIN.. When I asked if they were going to take that much blood each time, she replied that they only did it on the FIRST visit.. oops.. Oh well, it will give them two chances to catch anything off.  We won’t go back until June 6^th now, but I think we get another ultrasound then!  And, we can now tell our immediate families!!