16 weeks

Wow 16 weeks. I have been a little bad about reading the pregnancy books the last few weeks and thought I would take a glance last night – I forgot that we were here and looked up 14 weeks – thought the baby was supposed to be bigger…it took a few minutes.

So we had the amnio on Tuesday. They finally did a measurement US beforehand and we know the baby is measuring 16 weeks – so about 3 days ahead now. We saw it open its mouth, move its arms and legs, saw its little nasal bone that we missed before and basically just fell more in love with it.

I felt relieved that this office has done a lot of amnios – I think my doctor that day had already done two or three before us. I loved the doctor – he explained everything and was very reassuring. I actually ended up seeing him the day before because of blood pressure issues from over the weekend. Needless to say I am on new meds. My guess is that this will be my downfall in the end.

The pain from the needle wasn’t any worse than a PIO shot that you haven’t iced but when he went into the uterus that cramp that followed was quite intense. I think that part felt really long - like 5 minutes - but actually was only 30 seconds. I had a few cramps throughout the day but nothing as bad as the first one and I never leaked any fluid or anything so we were fine. I thought it was sweet that the ultrasound tech made sure to show me the heart beat after the procedure. I wasn’t afraid of something happening during the procedure but after if I was leaking fluid.

So now we wait and I have to tell you this feels a lot like the wait for a beta but you have to wait 2 or 3 days. And you are just as afraid of the results – because you’ll be happy if it’s good but so sad if it’s bad. I was able to put it aside for the two weeks it took to get to the test but now we know we are going to know and I am scared. They did the FISH test which means that we should, assuming the sample was good, have results no later than Friday. OMG my phone just rang at work – no one was there but I had to call Dan and see if they called. What a dork. I wish I had just had them call here but I was afraid of bad news at work. Now I just want to know. Plus I think its Dan’s turn to get good news (I am hoping) to share for once.

Oh, and you have to wait until Fathers day to find out the gender :) We decided to do something fun since we’ll have families together to give the GP a gift that announces it.


I hate waiting!