I feel like I should begin by telling everyone about our doctor His name is Dr. Harvey Edwards and we love him and his family. We first met Harvey while Waldo was his son's baseball coach and about a year later his wife Debbie invited us to their Sunday School class. We didn't know it at the time, but that invite was such a blessing....thanks to the Edwards we really became involved in a wonderful church and became a part of a fabulous church family! Once in the Sunday School class we would hear stories about what an amazing doctor Harvey was and if we ever decided to have kids we should go to him. Well we took their advice and started seeing Harvey, he is an amazing Christian man and his faith runs over into his practice. I'm thankful God provided us with such a Godly physician during this process! Plus he is a friend and allows me to text him with any and all questions throughout this process!!! :)
So...1st appointment:
We had our first ultrasound, all we could really see was the yoke sack....but that was enough, we knew he was there!! Then we met with Dr. E and got the Do's and Don'ts of pregnancy.
2nd appointment:
We had another ultrasound and got to see what looked like a little bitty baby. However, the most amazing part was getting to hear a little man's precious heartbeat. I could listen to his heartbeat all day, and I found that as the days went by (since I couldn't feel him and I was feeling well) I longed to hear that heartbeat. The heart rate was 150.....we then started the guessing game of girl or boy, but after much reading I've decided that was useless...one article would say girl, the next boy. I'm glad we finally know!
3rd appointment:
This appointment we just went through the normal routine....weight, blood pressure, etc. everything was good. Dr. E came back and measured my belly for the first time.....I totally forgot to ask the measurement, I was in a state of confusion because we didn't stop at the ultrasound room. I had no clue that your insurance only paid for so many ultrasounds....which I think is RIDICULOUS, come on insurance companies ease a mother's mind let her see her baby once a month!!!! Anyway, after the measurement he was like "okay see you in 4 weeks." I was like wait a minute, how do you know there is a baby in there? Do we get an ultrasound or get to hear the heartbeat or something???? Dr. E ask us if the nurse had check the heartbeat. Which of course hadn't happened (not sure why, think she just forgot). He got her back in there and she checked. I felt like it took an eternity for her to find it, and Waldo said it was the longest minute of his life and all he could think was he didn't know how he would leave with me if they didn't find the heartbeat. Thankfully she found it and all was well, around 150 again!
That pretty much sums up the 1st Trimester. Thankfully I was only sick a few times and overall I felt great! However, I was glad to see the 1st trimester go for 2 reasons....1) I was so tired all the time 2) it gets us closer to meeting our little man.....I'm anxiously awaiting his arrival!
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