12 Weeks!

This post is almost a week late as I'm 13 weeks tomorrow but better late than never I guess! lol I guess I'll just wait until a little later this week to do my 13 weeks post.

So, earlier this week I had my first official midwife appointment. It went quite well, lasted an hour! Mostly she just gathered medical history info but she also checked my blood pressure and did a thorough listen of my chest and back. She ran out of time so didn't do the pelvic exam...the purpose of this is generally to check to make sure my pelvis is large enough for a vaginal birth (for the most part) so the point of it seems kind of ridiculous to me since I've already given birth vaginally so clearly it's not an issue. lol

The midwife also tried to find baby's heartbeat with the doppler but was unsuccessful. At first I figured this was mostly due to my extra padding but I also couldn't help feeling she wasn't going up high enough with the wand. The more I've thought about it and felt my uterus the more I'm sure this was the real issue because everything I've read says the uterus at 12 weeks "the top of the womb can be felt just above your pubic bone now" but that's where I can feel the bottom of my uterus and the top is a little up from that. I'm already showing and can feel my entire uterus when laying on my back. In any case, I'm not worried that she couldn't find it and she'd already planned on getting me another ultrasound between 14 and 16 weeks so I'll hear Bun's heartbeat then. In the meantime, I've ordered a doppler...so I'll get to test my theory out when it gets here.

One little thing bothered me at the midwife appointment - she used the pregnancy wheel and used the info that my fertility clinic sent her but I noticed that the sheet said at my ultrasound with them that Bun measured 7 weeks 2 days but I clearly remember my RE saying Bun was 7 weeks 4 days and Steven remembers watching him write that down. I immediately told her that my RE said 7 weeks 4 days during the ultrasound but she just said "well, this is what they wrote" and I was pretty pissed because I think that I would know, considering it's my body, my pregnancy and I'm paying the most attention - especially so because we've spent the last 3.5 years trying to conceive this baby, not to mention that I clearly remember my RE saying 7 weeks 4 days because by my own calculations (based off my charting) I was 7 weeks 3 days so I remember thinking "Bun's a day ahead, good!". So I was mad at the fertility clinic for making a clerical error but also very displeased with her because she felt the piece of paper told the truth more accurately than me (for the reasons I just mentioned). I'm going to chalk it up to her nurse syndrome since she is also a registered nurse and so very much in the habit of believing a stupid piece of paper over a patient. But I can't wait to get to Smithers and the midwife who will be attending Bun's birth because I know her and I know darn well she would have listened to me over the paper!

I had originally been going to make a Facebook announcement of our pregnancy at 13 weeks but I've decided to wait until 14 weeks and in the meantime wrote the remaining few people who I figured deserved to know beforehand and this gives time for the snail mail to do it's job. lol

Weekly Update:

How far along? - 12 weeks 6 days

Total weight gain? - 4lbs (down a lb from previous update)

Sleep? - Waking up at about 12:30am, 2:30/3am, & 5:30am to pee most nights...every once in awhile I only wake up at 2:30/3am and it's pure bliss! lol

Food cravings? - Chocolate chip cookies (the homemade kind)!

Anything making you queasy or sick? - Not this week!

Symptoms? - Back and hip pain...an old issue for me but pregnancy seems to be making it flare up much sooner than I was expecting!

Gender prediction? - I personally still have no idea but my daughter says girl and so do 5 different Chinese gender charts, a Mayan gender predictor, the heart rate theory and the "pulse" test.

Happy or Moody most of the time? - Happy

Best moment this week? - Finding a pair of maternity capris!

Looking forward to? - My next ultrasound...don't have a date yet but somewhere between 14 and 16 weeks is my midwife's aim. Also, a friend who is due in October is having a gender reveal party this Friday for which I am making the cupcakes - super excited!

Miss Anything? - A lack of back/hip pain.

Nervous about? - Nothing this week!

Maternity clothes? - Yep but not completely...they're just starting to be more comfortable than regular clothes. I have 3 dresses that work for maternity wear but so far the weather hasn't really cooperated for them. I bought a pair of maternity capris and a lot of my shirts have an empire waist style already so they've got room...already boxed up a ton of stuff that no longer fits though! lol

Movement? - Maybe...still to early to tell for sure though.

Stretch marks? - Just the ones from my first PG with Phoenix. lol

Wedding rings on or off? - On!

Belly Button in or out? - In!

Labor Signs? - No way! lol