The last several weeks

Shortly after week 12, I met with my OBGyn here in Austin for her initial check into the pregnancy. When I scheduled the appointment with her, I asked if I would be having anther sonogram and much to my sadness, she said no. A quick urine test and chat with the doctor (I am back at Austin Regional Clinic if that doesn't say enough) and I was out the door. I had read so many articles about your first meeting with your OBGyn and the lists of questions I should have asked her regarding the million and one things I should know about the pregnancy and delivery. Needless to say, it was in and out and all those questions I had read went out the door as quickly as she did. I left having heard the babies heartbeat which always makes me feel so relieved and excited and quite honestly, I couldn't recall all those questions I was supposed to ask. Derek would have told me to write them down but I didn't.


I received a call from the doctor's office two days later and anyone that has an OBGyn knows they don't call you unless you need to be informed of something. In other words, if all is well, you won't hear from them at all. The nurse let me know that the doctor had reviewed my entire file and noticed that 10 years prior, she performed a procedure on me to remove pre cancerous cells from my cervix (this is called a LEAP procedure) and that they wanted to monitor me for several weeks to ensure I had a healthy and strong cervix. Studies have shown that LEAP might be associated with pre-term labor and/or miscarriages late in pregnancy. I panicked like I usually do and immediately began researching the topic. I found lots of info to keep my mind occupied and unsettled. I went in the following week, week 15, for a sonogram to check my cervix and all looked fine. The sonographer was nice enough to let me look at the baby while she was investigating everything else. How cute! I went home a little less troubled and with some very cute pictures of the baby. Right now, I am 20 weeks and have been to the doctor at least once a week for the last 5 weeks and have 2 more appts scheduled before they give me a clean bill of health and consider my pregnancy to be normal as apposed to high risk. I have lots of pictures that have been added to my collection over the last few weeks as well as another potential issue to occupy my mind. They found a few weeks ago that my placenta is low lying and told me the risks involved followed of course, by the typical "really there's no need to worry just yet" comment they like to end their findings with. Finally this week, it had moved up about 2mm and they are excited and hopeful that it will be making its way back to where it belongs and all my worries can be put to rest for the remainder of the pregnancy.

I am sure everything will be just fine.