First OBGYN Visit

As I said in the last post, I was referred back to my regular OBGYN. I had my first appointment on Monday, May 11 (the same day I lost my job!) I met with the nurse practitioner who asked a lot of family history questions and gave me a lot of information. My blood pressure was good. Even though I don't have high blood pressure, I worry about it a lot. According to the NP, I should only gain 25 lbs throughout this pregnancy. Yikes. I'll try my hardest! Once I finished with the NP I was sent for blood work which was not a fun thing. I have had my blood drawn so many times through the course of fertility treatments and it is usually no big thing for me but the phlebotomist was awful. She bruised me up and could barely get blood out of either arm. That has NEVER happened to me before. Enough about that. I don't want to think about it too much because I will have to get blood drawn again eventually!

Now for the highlight of the appointment. I didn't know that I would be getting an ultrasound during this visit but I did! Little did I know that I would also be hearing the heartbeats through the ultrasound. I told David he didn't have to come to the appointment because it would just be a lot of yapping. I feel really bad that he missed out on the heartbeats. Anyway, both babies measured at 9 weeks 1 day. I was 9 weeks 3 days at the appointment so that is really close! The heartbeats were 186 and 176. Nice and strong. I'm so happy things are still looking good. The ultrasound picture is posted above. It isn't very good quality because it was my very first abdominal ultrasound.

My next appointment is June 4 and I actually get to meet with Dr. Leinenbach. I also get another ultrasound and we'll get to hear the heartbeats again! David will be coming along this time! I don't want him to miss it again!

Appointment Updates

So I've been missing in action for a little while. I've just been so tired and didn't really feel like updating things but now I should have plenty of time because I lost my job on Monday. American General cut about 10% of the workforce here in Evansville and I was part of that 10%. It's okay though because we were trying to work it out so I could stay home once the babies are born. Now I'm just starting a little earlier! Anyway, on to the appointments.

We had an appointment at Dr. Gentry's office on May 5. We saw both heartbeats again and everything looked good. We were referred back to my regular OBGYN. It's going to be weird not to go to Dr. Gentry's office anymore. It is amazing what a difference two weeks can make. The ultrasound pictures actually look like babies! How exciting! The pictures above are from that visit. I will post the updates from the next appointment in a separate post.