First of all, I go to Capital Area OBGYN - i LOVE them. Before I found out I was pregnant, I just went to a regular primary doctor and had NO idea who to go to when I got pregnant. My friend Crystal has had two precious babies and highly recommended this practice -- I'm soo glad she did - they are GREAT. The very first appointment we went to was in their old office (in Cary). This appointment was just to meet with the pre-natal nurse to discuss things like health history, nutrition, overview of my appts going forward, to draw blood, urine sample, etc. etc. When we first got there, the nurse had me go to the bathroom to do a urine sample ... when I came out, I made eye contact with two girls I went to high school with and cheered with - Shanacee Holden & Wanette Williams!! They work there!! It was aweeeeesome and reassuring to see them and know that this really IS a good practice - b/c these girls are awesome. That first visit was July 29th. We scheduled our next visit for August 10th to do the first ultrasound.
The week before August 10th, we had something come up with church where we weren't going to be able to make our appointment that Tuesday ... so we thought ... we've waited this long, we can surely wait another two days. Soo we rescheduled the appt. for Thursday, August 12th. It was the most awesome feeling getting to see/hear our precious baby's heartbeat for the first time. What a miracle!! ........... The ultrasound technician told us that everything measured exactly where it was supposed to be measuring and the baby's heartbeat was 165 beats/minute.
The next doctor's office visit was on August 24th. This was the first time we were actually meeting with the doctor. The one I met with that day - Dr. Christin Richardson - was AWESOME. She sat us down in her office and talked about my blood type, asked us all kinds of questions about how everything was going, and then she did a papsmear/pelvic exam and we were able to hear the baby's heartbeat as well. She said "if I had to guess, the baby's heartbeart is about 160 beats/minute" -- so about the same as it was last time.
The next doctor's office visit was on September 2nd. This was our first trimester ultrasound and down's syndrome testing. We met with the nurse practitioner, Kristin Shields, first to discuss down's syndrome, etc. She did the ultrasound and we got to see the baby's heartbeat again -- and, of course, printed out several pictures. During the ultrasound she was measuring the neck and said "everything is measuring well within normal range". (I wouldn't have known this ... except Crystal had told me ... that sometimes they can tell if it's gonna be abnormal or more of a risk by the measurement of the neck -- I would never have known that otherwise). They then took my blood and ... we were on our way back to work. About a week and a half later, I got a notification through e-mail telling me I had a new message on my online account with them -- the message said everything with my first ultrasound screening was within normal range.
The next visit was .......... today. This was supposed to be a routine visit just to take my measurements, weigh me, blood pressure, etc. Of course, with me, nothing is ever routine/normal. Last night I did not sleep very well at all. I woke up at 4:45 and could NOT go back to sleep .. why?? I have no idea. Jonathan had to get up and go to work (but since the dr's office is within his fire district, he was just planning on meeting me there). I finally fell into a deep sleep about 6:00, right before his alarm went off. So he got up and went to work. He reset the alarm for me to wake up at 6:50. I guess I was in such a deep sleep that at 7:06, I jumped up, realizing I HAD to get up right then or I would be late, and turned the shower on. I got in the shower and when I started wetting my hair, I realize 'I'm about to pass out right now ...' I immediately turned the shower off and got out and put my head down between my legs (this has happened to me and my mom on mannnny occasions, so this is nothing TOO unusual). But ... I was still running late so I decided to turn the bath tub on b/c half my hair was wet and I at least needed to wet the rest of it so I could get ready and leave. I remember turning the bath water on and then opening the closet door to get a towel out and then ......................... the next thing I know, I am waking up from being facedown on the floor. The LORD is sooo good to me ... b/c somehow I woke up all of a sudden ... (Jonathan thinks my blood pressue finally leveled out - and we've also tossed around the idea that our dog Romeo started licking me or something) - but I sincerely know that God was just taking care of me. It couldn't have been too long b/c the bath water had only filled the tub about 2-3 inches. I also immediately looked at the clock and it was 7:13 so that's another reason I couldn't have passed out for too long. I got up and went straight to the bed to lay down, thinking I HAVE to cancel this appt - there is NO way I am going to be able to make it - I don't feel good - I can't get myself up out of this bed - I'm wet - I've only had half of a shower ... So I debated for 2 seconds whether to call 911 or Jonathan but, as I was laying there for the first few seconds, I started to feel ok ... like I wasn't going to pass out again. Plus, I was butt naked, didn't have any bumps or bruises (that I could tell) and I was alive soo I decided to call Jonathan. I was balling my eyes out, NOT scared for myself, but scared for this little life inside of me. I didn't know if I had fallen .. I didn't know if I had hurt the baby .. I NEVER lay on my stomach anymore and that's how I woke up on the ground - facedown on my stomach soo I was soo worried. We immediately just started praying. Jonathan kept insisting on him coming to get me and driving me but ... I literally felt OK after all that. I really really think I just jumped up too fast out of bed and had not let myself get stabilized before I tried taking a bath/shower. Jonathan says my blood pressure just dropped and then when I was on the floor it started to level out. We obviously kept our doctor's appointment - we wanted to make sure everything was ok. My heart was relieved when we got to hear our baby's heartbeat again ... just as strong as before! The doctor kept thinking it was my blood sugar or that the water in the shower was too hot ... but ... I've had numerous occasions where I've had issues with my blood sugar and ... that one wasn't it. I have also taken the same shower with the same warm water every day ... so I don't think that was it either. But I sure did learn my lesson ... I won't be jumping up out of bed like that again!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRAISE GOD, for being the HEALER, COMFORTER, PROTECTOR, & for taking care of me & our baby. It could have been a whole lot worse.
We scheduled our next visit for two weeks from today - Thursday, October 7th. This is when we will find out if it is a BOY OR GIRL!!!!!!! STAY TUNED!! :)
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Expecting our first BABY!! :)
Soo my plan last time I logged in (August 11th) was to get on here the next day and post our NEWS. However, I've been very slack at this soo I'm just now doing it (over a month later). Woww ... i think I'm busy NOW (without a child) ... I wonder how in the world I'll update this blog WITH a child?? :)
For those of you that didn't know, we're expecting our first BABY March 6th 2011!! We are soo excited and feel very blessed already. I think it is finally starting to set in that this is "real".
We found out July 2nd and we were FINALLY able to tell people after we saw the heartbeat on August 12th. We just wanted to make sure everything was OK and that there really was a precious little life in there ... there IS and everything's going well so far! :)
So ... the funny part is HOW we found out. Here's the story:
Jonathan and I left on a Wednesday afternoon (June 23rd) to drive down to Marco Island, Florida (which is where we go on our family vacation every summer). Mom and Michael had already arrived because they had flown. Jonathan & I drove b/c I am not a big fan of flying (that's a whole 'nother story in inself). Todd and Laine were scheduled to fly in that Friday (when our time share starts). On the way down, we stopped and stayed at the Red Roof Inn, before making it to Marco Island around lunch-time on Thursday. The first couple of days we were there, I did completely fine out in the sun (like usual). Starting Sunday, however, I got this AWFUL heat rash/sun poison that burned soo bad and was itching me to deathhhhhhh!! I had NEVER experienced that problem with the sun and, in fact, had been laying out here and there (at the beach, at my house, etc.) before we went to Florida just so I wouldn't burn as bad when we got there (and had not had any trouble at all). So ... we went to the pharmacy Sunday night and it was too late ... the pharmacists had gone home for the night. Soo the next day I stayed under the umbrella all day, but it still hurt (b/c it was a heat rash too). Finally, I saw a pharmacist that afternoon (Monday) and they suggested I take benadryl and gave me a cream to use. The cream helped tremendously b/c it helped soothe it and ease the pain for a while and, of course, the benadryl helped a little too. So the rest of the week ... I was ok with the rash ... it would come out during the day when I was out on the beach or by the pool and ... it would go in some at night. By Thursday, it was ok ...
Mom kept telling me that it could be my hormones changing ... b/c she knew I was off birth control ... and they kept laughing about the possibility of me being pregnant. It was ALL just a joke. I mean ... I did keep eating pickles and drinking Mt. Dew and Laine kept giving me a hard time about that ... but it was literally .. a JOKE (or so we thought)! ...
So ... Tuesday morning I had woken up and had two spider-looking bites on my left leg. I thought nothing of them ... I was more worried about the heat rash. By Thursday night at dinner (the day before we were leaving), they looked huge - one of them had a red target looking ring around it and ... of course, the worst thing you can do is look it up online and try to find out what kind they are ... well, I did. NOT a good idea - b/c it kept showing pictures of brown recluse (sp?) spiders, etc. ... so this was about 10:30 Thursday night. We were scheduled to get up Friday morning and leave at 4:00 AM to take Todd and Laine to the airport and me, mom & Jonathan were leaving straight from there and driving back to NC (15 hour drive)!!
So ... Jonathan and I looked up an urgent care just to go get some medicine or something for them and to make sure I was ok. Of course, there wasn't a 24 hour urgent care and the closest place we could find was the emergency room in Naples (about 15 minutes away). So ... we drove to the ER ... there were probably 5 people total there ... me, Jonathan, the receptionist, the doctor, and the nurse. Literally, it wasn't like Wake Med or Rex!
So ... after about 2 minutes of waiting in the waiting room, the nurse called us back and started asking all my symptoms. I told her about my heat rash, the spider bites and I even mentioned I was two or three days late. She took all my vital signs and then came the doctor. He was this haitian looking man that kinda reminded me of Burke (you know, Christina's old fiance that is no longer on the show - from Grey's Anatomy). He was straight to the point - he went right to popping my spider bites and I had to hold on soo tight to Jonathan's arm b/c I thought he was killing me. It hurt soooooooooo bad. He then asked me if there was any chance I could be pregnant b/c they were going to prescribe me a certain medicine. I said well ... actually I'm two or three days late, which isn't unusual ... and he jumped in and said we would do a urine test just in case. So ... I did the test around 12:25 AM and ... we sat, and waited, and sat, and waited ........... and by this time, we knew everything was ok with my spider bite and we were just ready to get out of there ... we knew we had to get up at 3:30 and drive all day soo we just felt we were wasting time. Soo finally at 1:05 AM, the doctor comes back in and says ... matter of factly "well, you are pregnant." WHAT?!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) I wish I had a camera to catch Jonathan's facial expression. It was incredddddddible!! We sat there just almost laughing with each other b/c he had JUST said (before the doctor came back in) -- "what if we find out we're pregnant in Marco Island Florida in an emergency room?!" - and we laughed it off because, of course, we thought it was a joke!! .......................... God had BIGGER plans for us!
Soo ... the doctor goes straight back to working on my spider bites and checking them out before we left ........... what spider bites?? I'm not even worried about THOSE anymore!!
So Jonathan and I checked out and left and ... we didn't know what in the world to do about telling any of our family?? We had always talked about waiting until a special occasion or ordering grandma/grandpa bibs or something and having them open them all together ... but how were we going to keep this HUGE secret????????
WE COULDN'T!! ... we ended up telling all of our immediate family and then we waited until August 12th to start telling others (after we got to see and hear that precious baby's heartbeat)!
Jonathan and I are sooo very lucky to have the love and support from all our family and friends. And we can't WAIT for Baby Williams to arrive so we can love it, care for it, and spoil it just like all our family has done to us over the years. :)
For those of you that didn't know, we're expecting our first BABY March 6th 2011!! We are soo excited and feel very blessed already. I think it is finally starting to set in that this is "real".
We found out July 2nd and we were FINALLY able to tell people after we saw the heartbeat on August 12th. We just wanted to make sure everything was OK and that there really was a precious little life in there ... there IS and everything's going well so far! :)
So ... the funny part is HOW we found out. Here's the story:
Jonathan and I left on a Wednesday afternoon (June 23rd) to drive down to Marco Island, Florida (which is where we go on our family vacation every summer). Mom and Michael had already arrived because they had flown. Jonathan & I drove b/c I am not a big fan of flying (that's a whole 'nother story in inself). Todd and Laine were scheduled to fly in that Friday (when our time share starts). On the way down, we stopped and stayed at the Red Roof Inn, before making it to Marco Island around lunch-time on Thursday. The first couple of days we were there, I did completely fine out in the sun (like usual). Starting Sunday, however, I got this AWFUL heat rash/sun poison that burned soo bad and was itching me to deathhhhhhh!! I had NEVER experienced that problem with the sun and, in fact, had been laying out here and there (at the beach, at my house, etc.) before we went to Florida just so I wouldn't burn as bad when we got there (and had not had any trouble at all). So ... we went to the pharmacy Sunday night and it was too late ... the pharmacists had gone home for the night. Soo the next day I stayed under the umbrella all day, but it still hurt (b/c it was a heat rash too). Finally, I saw a pharmacist that afternoon (Monday) and they suggested I take benadryl and gave me a cream to use. The cream helped tremendously b/c it helped soothe it and ease the pain for a while and, of course, the benadryl helped a little too. So the rest of the week ... I was ok with the rash ... it would come out during the day when I was out on the beach or by the pool and ... it would go in some at night. By Thursday, it was ok ...
Mom kept telling me that it could be my hormones changing ... b/c she knew I was off birth control ... and they kept laughing about the possibility of me being pregnant. It was ALL just a joke. I mean ... I did keep eating pickles and drinking Mt. Dew and Laine kept giving me a hard time about that ... but it was literally .. a JOKE (or so we thought)! ...
So ... Tuesday morning I had woken up and had two spider-looking bites on my left leg. I thought nothing of them ... I was more worried about the heat rash. By Thursday night at dinner (the day before we were leaving), they looked huge - one of them had a red target looking ring around it and ... of course, the worst thing you can do is look it up online and try to find out what kind they are ... well, I did. NOT a good idea - b/c it kept showing pictures of brown recluse (sp?) spiders, etc. ... so this was about 10:30 Thursday night. We were scheduled to get up Friday morning and leave at 4:00 AM to take Todd and Laine to the airport and me, mom & Jonathan were leaving straight from there and driving back to NC (15 hour drive)!!
So ... Jonathan and I looked up an urgent care just to go get some medicine or something for them and to make sure I was ok. Of course, there wasn't a 24 hour urgent care and the closest place we could find was the emergency room in Naples (about 15 minutes away). So ... we drove to the ER ... there were probably 5 people total there ... me, Jonathan, the receptionist, the doctor, and the nurse. Literally, it wasn't like Wake Med or Rex!
So ... after about 2 minutes of waiting in the waiting room, the nurse called us back and started asking all my symptoms. I told her about my heat rash, the spider bites and I even mentioned I was two or three days late. She took all my vital signs and then came the doctor. He was this haitian looking man that kinda reminded me of Burke (you know, Christina's old fiance that is no longer on the show - from Grey's Anatomy). He was straight to the point - he went right to popping my spider bites and I had to hold on soo tight to Jonathan's arm b/c I thought he was killing me. It hurt soooooooooo bad. He then asked me if there was any chance I could be pregnant b/c they were going to prescribe me a certain medicine. I said well ... actually I'm two or three days late, which isn't unusual ... and he jumped in and said we would do a urine test just in case. So ... I did the test around 12:25 AM and ... we sat, and waited, and sat, and waited ........... and by this time, we knew everything was ok with my spider bite and we were just ready to get out of there ... we knew we had to get up at 3:30 and drive all day soo we just felt we were wasting time. Soo finally at 1:05 AM, the doctor comes back in and says ... matter of factly "well, you are pregnant." WHAT?!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) I wish I had a camera to catch Jonathan's facial expression. It was incredddddddible!! We sat there just almost laughing with each other b/c he had JUST said (before the doctor came back in) -- "what if we find out we're pregnant in Marco Island Florida in an emergency room?!" - and we laughed it off because, of course, we thought it was a joke!! .......................... God had BIGGER plans for us!
Soo ... the doctor goes straight back to working on my spider bites and checking them out before we left ........... what spider bites?? I'm not even worried about THOSE anymore!!
So Jonathan and I checked out and left and ... we didn't know what in the world to do about telling any of our family?? We had always talked about waiting until a special occasion or ordering grandma/grandpa bibs or something and having them open them all together ... but how were we going to keep this HUGE secret????????
WE COULDN'T!! ... we ended up telling all of our immediate family and then we waited until August 12th to start telling others (after we got to see and hear that precious baby's heartbeat)!
Jonathan and I are sooo very lucky to have the love and support from all our family and friends. And we can't WAIT for Baby Williams to arrive so we can love it, care for it, and spoil it just like all our family has done to us over the years. :)
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