Week 13

      Every Friday is the start of a new pregnancy week for me. It makes it easy to keep track! And since that is the slowest day for me at work, and Ryan is free after his morning classes, it also makes for a perfect day to have our OB appointments. Currently, we have our OB appointments every 4 weeks. Since our last appointment was at 9 weeks when I was freaking out, our next appointment fell at 13 weeks. Since that was technically when we finished the first trimester, we figured once we heard from the OB that all was good and well, we’d finally announce to everyone outside of the few that knew about our little peanut. We got to the appointment only to find that the OB had been called out to a c-section, and learned that there was a chance we wouldn’t be able to see her until the next week. I was so bummed!! I’ve discovered that I’m not very good at keeping secrets since I’ve wanted to tell the world pretty much since we found out. Each time we had a scare I was glad that everyone didn’t know, but then once those moments passed I was back to wanting to share the news. They were able to give us a call when the OB returned to the office, so we did get to see her after all.
      We talked about how things have gone, and I asked how they choose the date for a c-section, since I know I need to have one. (Due to the nature of my injuries from that car accident, as well as the titanium screw I have in my pelvis, my pelvis can’t open the way it should to deliver a baby. My orthopedic surgeon from the accident told me it was extremely important for me to inform any OB I worked with of this so as not to endanger the baby or myself during delivery.) She said that she wasn’t aware that I needed one and asked me to explain why. I told her all about it, and that I had gone over all of that with the nurse practitioner at my initial visit to their office. Apparently she didn’t think that was important enough to write down. Odd, right? Anyway, I pulled up a picture of my pelvic x-ray right after the accident to show her as an illustration to why a c-section was necessary. She said that she delivers lots of babies and she thinks it would be worth a shot to try a regular delivery, especially since she can turn to a c-section as a last resort if necessary. Hmmm. Ok wait a second. I understand that there are risks associated with having a c-section. But in my case there are also risks associated with having a vaginal delivery! It could re-break my pelvis!  Um, no thank you. Maybe she’s presenting that as an option because she really thinks it would be better to go that route. Maybe she’s suggesting it because she prefers those deliveries over c-sections. Well, I’ll go somewhere else if you don’t want to do my surgery, lady. I did sign a release of information so they can get everything from the hospital in Texas and she can review everything further. She wants to have an orthopedist here take a look at the scans and give a second opinion to what I was given years ago. I’m ok with her looking into different options and getting a second opinion. But what it comes down to is what feels right and best for me and my baby, and anyone who knows me knows that I will not be shy in sharing that opinion. So we’ll see what happens. She may take one look at everything in person and say there is no way she would try anything but a c-section. Time will tell.
      My symptoms have returned, so I constantly have to go to the bathroom again. When it happens in the middle of the night, I play a time game with myself. If it’s within an hour to an hour and a half of when I’m supposed to wake up for work, I tell my bladder it’s out of luck and it has to wait. Otherwise I drag myself out of bed and go. I guess that is just preparing me for later in my pregnancy when it gets worse as well as once Baby is here and I never sleep again! Haha. I still haven’t had many cravings, but the one that keeps popping up is the need for popcorn. Movie theater popcorn would be ideal, but since we don’t go to the movies often (and popcorn there is waaaay expensive) I just have to do with regular popcorn. It works well enough.
      I started to show a little around 11 weeks, and my little bump is continuing to grow. I can’t wait until I feel Baby move so that maybe I can finally actually feel pregnant!!
      We had a lot of fun taking some pregnancy announcement pictures, and even more fun finally announcing to everyone. Yay for happy times!! Thanks to everyone for being excited with us!! :)