Week 14

This was a rough week and it really didn't need to be....so after our 12 week scan the doctor said everything looked great.  Well, this week I got an email with the test results and it had a list of all the things they looked at: stomach (normal), bladder (normal), cranium (normal).  ALL normal until it got to cardiac axis (abnormal).  WHAT??!!!?  They give me this news over email?!?!  No phone call. No consultation.  Just me.  To interpret the results all by myself (with the help of google--and everyone knows how helpful google is when you are freaking out about a medical crisis.....).  I have another midwife appointment next week so I planned to wait to talk to the midwife in person.  Until I started googling about how my baby's heart is in the wrong place and s/he could die any minute, or need a major surgery, require a c-section, have to stay in the NICU for 6 months, or perhaps, the problem would self-correct.  After tears (lots of tears) I decided I had to call my midwife right away.  All to find out that (abnormal) was poorly worded language for "they didn't get a good ultrasound picture."  Again, WHAT?!?!?!  NEVER, EVER, EVER, in a million trillion years tell a pregnant woman something is ABNORMAL.  I can think of 50 other ways they could have described not getting a good enough picture.  So now I am very thankful my baby's cardiac axis is (hopefully) okay.  

The rest of this week was a piece of cake.  Because we were relaxing in Bend.   And I got my favorite thai food and way too much ice cream and lots of hiking outside with daughter #1.  So life was especially good! :)

14 week bump