If you haven't heard already, Paige is going to be a big sister! We were being cautious and not making a public post about it until the first trimester was officially over. Tomorrow I'll be 13 weeks along! I met with my doctor today. It was a new doctor, because the one I had been seeing was not working out so well. I didn't feel comfortable with either of the 2 out of 3 doctors that I met in the practice. And I knew that if I was dreading going in for the routine appointments this early on, that it would only get worse down the road. So I made the switch to a practice out of the hospital that I plan to deliver at. Today I met with a midwife, but I'll get to meet each of the 4 doctors eventually as they rotate the patients so all the doctors are familiar with all the patients since any one of them could be the one on-call for the delivery.
At today's appointment, she did an internal exam, listened to the heartbeat, took tons of blood from me and we filled out a bunch of medical history paperwork. They also sent me home with a goody bag and all kinds of paperwork to read through that covers all the testing and everything else that will occur during my upcoming appointments. I had such a good feeling after leaving my appointment today and they covered so much more with me than we went through during any of my 3 appointments at the old practice!
The midwife was able to quickly find the heartbeat with the doppler and the baby was very active and making big thumping noises as we were trying to listen! The heartbeat was in the 160s.
I'm very happy that the first trimester is officially over. I haven't been throwing up, but have been feeling very nauseated since the beginning. Hopefully that will start subsiding as we enter the second trimester.
It's snowing again today. The forecast is calling for 5-7 inches by late tomorrow afternoon. It snowed a little this weekend, but we haven't had any accumulation since our first snow at the end of October.
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