Wow. I cannot believe I'm already over 20 weeks. When I first found out I was pregnant and they told me they would send me to a Maternal Fetal Specialist for a special anatomy sonogram at 20 weeks, it seemed so far away and like it would never get here. But now it's come and gone and I can't believe how fast time is flying. I just need the next 18 weeks to keep going by this quickly.
Since we had to do the sonogram on a week day, Derek didn't want to have to take another day off, so I invited my mom to go with me. She's been dying to go with me to an ultrasound and I sometimes have small panic attacks when I go to new doctors and don't know where to go. And this one was at Children's Medical Center in Plano, so I was already kind of freaking out about it. Derek is a, follow along and never ask questions because that makes us look stupid, kind of person, so if I don't know where I'm going, he's absolutely no help. My mom is the opposite of that, so it was an obvious choice.
So far, every doctor I've seen during this pregnancy has been awesome and so laid back. My OB is awesome, the women in her office that does the sonograms is so sweet, my endocrinologist has finally grown on me after almost 5 years, and this new doctor was no different. She wasn't sure if I would have to come back and see her, but I wouldn't mind it if I did. The office was very quiet and the nurses were all really nice.
I wasn't nervous about the ultrasound until the morning of, and I'm not even sure why I got nervous all of the sudden. She got very active at very certain times of the day starting on Monday the 14th and then on Wednesday and Thursday this week, suddenly, she was extremely still. Both days I tried not to panic, and of course, at the end of every day she would give me one little kick so I could sleep peacefully. I'm not one to overreact, thankfully, and she's been very active the last two days.
I wasn't really sure what to expect at the this ultrasound, I was just excited to see her again. The sonographer came in first and measured everything. Her head, her legs, her arms, and all internal organs. She checked blood flow through her heart and in the umbilical cord. She checked her brain and made sure everything was where it was supposed to be. She was trying to measure her face, but of course she's my baby and doesn't want her picture taken so she had her face buried in my cervix the whole time. Stubborn little peanut. Gave us a great view of her butt and spine though. But she's growing perfectly. She's in the 68th percentile and measuring at 13ozs, right on track. When the sonographer was done she said the doctor would come in and look at her again, so I should get up and move around to see if I could get her to flip over. I was more than happy to, so I walked around the room and drank a little bit of juice to get her moving. Thankfully when the doctor came in she had turned over so we could actually get a picture of her profile (something we couldn't get at the 16 week gender ultrasound because she was being stubborn then, too) and they could measure her facial bones and make sure everything was in the right place. The doctor tried flipping over to the 4D so we could maybe see what she was starting to look like, but the little bugger had her hands up in front of her face (also something she was doing at 16 weeks) the whole freaking time. It was entertaining and I don't blame her one bit. What little bit we did finally see showed a little girl who looks just like her daddy.
Overall, the doctor was extremely happy. They were thoroughly happy with my last a1C of 5.2 (which is an overall average blood sugar of 96) and said that my awesome control from day of diagnosis is what is contributing to an extremely healthy baby. I haven't done any research because I just don't want to know, but I think it's pretty normal to have a baby that's already measuring too big at 20 weeks. Baby girl was measuring a couple of days ahead, but that's normal for everyone. We'll see how she does from now on. She should start producing her own insulin in the next few weeks, and that's really when she'll start to grow (since she's having to overproduce insulin to compensate for my lack of insulin production, she'll start growing more quickly than a non-diabetic baby) and I'll have to be even more careful than I already am. This is something that I've been aware of for many years, even before we decided to start trying to have a baby.
I'm not sure when my next ultrasound will be, but the specialist said she wasn't sure if Dr.Walsh would have me come back to her or not since I'm in such tight control. She said sometimes she'll have people back one or more times just to confirm everything still looks good, but those are usually people who are having trouble. She said Dr.Walsh may choose to just do those tests in her office since I'm not having any complications and don't seem to be heading in that direction. Hopefully I don't have to go back to her, even though she was so great.
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