This pregnancy has been ever so different than my other 2.
I knew within a few days of becoming pregnant that I was pregnant.
Well, I didn't know for sure...but I "felt" like I was.
Then, just as soon as the strip turned pink, the waves of morning sickness
rushed over me.
And didn't really stop until just last week.
I was
MAYBE sick 5 minutes collectively with each of the past pregnancies.
This was going to be different.
Went to get a pregnancy test done at the health department, and couldn't even get a due date....
{BUSY February leads to a forgetful Kari...}
I had NO idea when my last cycle was. I knew I had one IN February but other than that, I was blank.
When I finally got my insurance and all in line, I tried to find a good OB.
There was only one that would take me...out of 3 towns.
1 office out of about 10. It was so frustrating.
When I finally got an appointment with an OB, I then learned that I would be about 16 weeks {by my calculations...and if you know me and math..we DON'T mix} by the time I get in for my first appointment.
Like, I said. I knew this one was going to be totally different. Which has led me and a whole SLEW of other people to believe that I am having a boy. But we will just have to wait WEEKS before we find out for sure.
I even FELT different. But, lately that "different" wasn't feeling right.
That one thought of "something could be wrong" just snowballed in my mind and caused me to stress and to worry. On top of that, I hadn't felt the baby move in about a week, and that worried me.
{I have been an early feeler with both girls before. I felt Charlotte around 11 weeks and Audrey around 10...}
But, especially because I didn't know if I was further along than I calculated and should be feeling the baby MORE often, or if I wasn't that far along and there was nothing to be so worried about.
I called my future OB and practically begged to be seen sooner than the 1st. No such luck.
This place was and IS busy!
Finally after calling almost everyday to 2 different OB offices, one finally told me to go to the ER to get checked out.
What!? You mean, I could have had this whole thing solved about 3 weeks ago!?
I didn't know you could just walk into the ER and say Hey! I'm preggo and I wanna be seen."
And, that's basically what I did this afternoon/evening.
They did an ultrasound..{a QUICK one} basically just to see the baby and check for a heartbeat.
And there WAS a baby and IT's heartbeat was perfect!
The ER doctor told me he couldn't tell by the quick ultrasound exactly how far long I was, but he could tell I was atleast over 12 weeks. So, I was kind of bummed that he couldn't give me a date...but, MY BABY IS FINE!!!
Here is what a 14 week old baby in utero is up to: {again, when I get an actual date, I will change all my e-mail stuff to accomadate..}
14 weeks Baby Elwart
This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.
In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.
