Tuesday, December 2, 2008

breathing ...

Everything went really well.

I was a nervous wreck. Like ..ridiculously so. I'm starting to diagnose myself as having generalized anxiety disorder except that it's not generalized. It's pregnancy anxiety disorder. My blood pressure was sky high for me... 130/88. The nurse started to lecture me and I said ..umm...I'm visibly shaking. How about you recheck me after the ultrasound and I'll listen to the lecture if it's still needed then?? I was borderline schizo. So much so the friendly OB did a bedside u/s before the real u/s just to calm me down.

One little bean. In my uterus - not in a tube. One kick ass corpus luteum on my left ovary. Heartrate is 167. Due Date July 4th. Baby is all of 2.5 cm, and measuring dead on day for day from the day my OPK was positive. I'll stay on the progesterone suppositories until week 13 and then taper off for a week. I've got labs for the morning ....thyroid, HIV, all the standards plus the early gestational diabetes screen/1 hour tolerance test thanks to the pcos, insulin resistance, and my fat ass.

I feel like I just exhaled for the first time in 8 weeks. Or 3 years. One of the two.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yay! Congrats! :)

Searching for Serenity said...

I'm so relieved and happy for you! I would put that in ALL CAPS to get my point across, but that might be little obnoxious.

I'm SO SO SO Happy for you!!

Now, work on that breathing.

Mermaid said...

YAY! That is fantastic. I'm so excited for you.

Mo said...

Whoo! I exhaled right alongside you. That's fantastic news!

Sleep well tonight. It's so great to get reassuring news.

Mo

April said...

such great news! now you can relax (a little--i know you can!).

thanks for your comments yesterday. i was definitely starting to lose it. still feel like it.

i am NOT doing the DNP. after bsn, ms, phd...i am DONE with school. at least for a few years :) UM doesnt have a program yet. not sure when it is starting tho. are you thinking about it? wayne has one that i hear is good. you should do it and come teach with me :)