Week 17

I did my AFP test this morning. Nice and simple. They drew blood and sent it away to a lab. I'll know the results in 10 working days. Now I have to wait for A. to get home so he can give me my second dose of P17 shots. Fun!

I also found out today that my friend Lisa is pregnant. She's about 4 weeks along and is very stressed because she's had 2 miscarriages in the last year. They've been trying to get pregnant for over a year now and has not been able to keep the pregnancies past 8 weeks. I wish her the best and hope that we can both delivery healthy babies come this fall.

Week 16 photos

I received some great looking pictures from last week's U/S and finally got a chance to post them. The details of the baby are amazing. I can make out so much of her features. They really bring into perspective for me that she's alive and thriving. I'm falling more in love with her every day. I pray that she remains healthy and that I can carry her full-term with no complications. Almost half way through the pregnacy....

Check out this 4D U/S. This picture blew me away. She's so fully developed and cute!

16 weeks update.

I still sick but I'm down to a nasty cough. Just saw my perinatologist today. Everything looks good. My cervix is long (5 cm) and the baby looks healthy, measuring at 5 ounces currently. They measured her size from head to toes (literally). No signs of Downs or any other defects, thank goodness. My peri has the baby at 16 weeks and 1 day as of today. I think my OB (whom I saw yesterday) has the baby measuring a few days behind so I'm getting different delivery dates from each Dr. I'm going by my peri more just because he has the high-tech machinery. Today is also the big day where I start my P17 shots. I thought the nurse was going to teach A. and then she was going to administer it. But I was wrong. She supervised while A. injected me. I freaked out alittle because it was his first time. I kept on asking if it was possible for him to screw up and inject me with oxygen or draw out blood by mistake. He proved me wrong and did a great job. I barely felt it. He only has to do it 19 more times! hehehehe....

Sick.

I caught Aria's bug and for the last 2 days I've been as sick as a dog. I would get the chills and then the sweats along with a runny nose and some nasty mucus that refused to be coughed up. I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and die. It was so bad yesterday that I told A. to take Aria to work with him because I simply couldn't watch her yesterday. A. was wonderful enough to call into work and take the day off. He also took Aria to my usual mommy & me class in the afternoon so I could get some peace and quite. I wanted to tough it out and not take any over-the-counter medicine for fear of harming the baby but by 6:30 PM I just couldn't handle it anymore. I asked A. to get me some meds. He went our local Walgreens, talked to a pharmacist and found out that I can take 2 regular Tylenol every 8 hours. I took the tablets at 7 and miraculously felt better by 8. Ahh.. the wonders of modern medicine. I thank you.