Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Too many damn exclamation points

Anyone who knows me well knows that I can't stand the overuse of exclamation points. I barely ever use more than one exclamation point. Like hardly ever. I have to tell you this so that you can all be amused by what the tech did at my ultrasound this morning:


I actually considered asking her to remove the exclamation points, but thought that would be a bit rude. My husband says he will photoshop them out for me.

Anyway, baby is measuring right on track with a heartbeat of 179 bpm. The dark spot on the bottom right is the vanishing twin. It's interesting, because I've been telling myself that it's getting smaller. But they measured the baby in there at 6w2d, which is actually (a) about the same size as it has been for the past 2 weeks and (b) a little bit bigger than the baby that we lost in our first missed miscarriage, which measured about 5w6d. So I realized that the sac is not actually getting smaller, it's just that Baby A is getting bigger. I just didn't realize because I've never been able to see a baby grow until now. Which is amazing.

I actually think I might be able to start settling down and enjoying this pregnancy now. We have two more loss milestones to beat. One is tomorrow, which is the day in the last pregnancy when we found out about the missed miscarriage. The other one is Saturday, which is the day that I actually started the physical part of the miscarriage. We'll be 10 weeks on Saturday. I think a huge weight will be lifted off my shoulders then. It will be helpful when I can start hearing the heartbeat on the doppler, too. Still no luck. (Although now I know that I was looking way too low. Baby is way over to the left when I'm looking down and not too far below my belly button. Maybe I have a short pelvic area?)

By the way, is it just me, or does this baby already have huge feet?  My husband wears a size 13.

2 comments:

  1. Grow baby, grow! (See? Only one.) ;)

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  2. Grow little bean! Love this update and will be looking forward to Saturday's update. <3

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