Ultrasound 2

During my midwife appointment in July, I mentioned to the midwife that I was concerned that my uterus wasn't big enough. All the books were saying that I should be able to feel it so far above my belly button but I felt it much lower than it was supposed to be. I was a "little" worried. The midwife she said will check again next month and if it still seems low we'll go ahead a schedule an ultrasound to check things out. Anyone who has seen me before knows that I have an extremely long torso, I knew that this could be why the uterus seemed low. Knowing this I still freaked a little. It's funny, if I thought I was sick before pregnancy I would always put it off and not worry. Telling myself "I'll get threw it", or "I'll be fine." Being pregnant has completely changed all that. If I have a headache that lasts a little too long, a pain in my stomach, or anything else different then normal; I would call the doctor or bring it up at the next visit. My care-free, "it will all work out" philosophy has been taken over by worry and stress. Knowing that your every action no longer just effects you, changes the way you do everything. The way you eat , the way you drive... I wasn't the nicest or most focused driver pre-baby. So anyways, back to the point... Come Augusts visit I still didn't feel much growth. The Midwife said to go a head and get the ultrasound just to check on our little girl. She asked about her movement. She had been moving ALOT. The midwife said that as long as she's moving then she's doing fine but lets go ahead just in case. I think she just wanted to ease my troubled mind. Little did she know she would end up worrying me the most.

About 2 or 3 days later I noticed a lull in Bliss' movement. I had just hit 28 weeks and all the books say that baby is most active 24-28 weeks along. So I knew that she could simply be slowing down because of the shrinking room in my tummy but I just kept thinking of what the midwife said, "as long as she's moving"... It was too much. I was worried. So I called around and got my ultrasound appointment moved up a week. I thought I would die if I had to wait another week. So Josh takes off of work and we went to see our little girl again. I was part excited to see her and part freaked that something was wrong. I was told to drink 40 oz of water and NOT PEE for TWO HOURS. So to say the least I was very uncomfortable. The ultrasound tech had me lay down and started. She asked if this was our first ultrasound and how far along I was and then was SILENCE. She was silent for like 15 minutes! It felt like a life time. The screen was turned away from me so I saw nothing. With each minute that passed I got more and more worried, thinking is something wrong...TALK LADY! Then she told me that my bladder was very full ( like the pain in my stomach wasn't already cluing me in on that one) so I could go to the bathroom before she finished. I did, when I got back she explained that they had some dumb rule that they can't tell the poor parents anything until they have a certain amount of footage. So now she started talking, THANK GOD. She showed us the baby's heart, head, and all the other parts. She told me she looked great and the PERFECT SIZE. At that moment I could breath. It was the best, most reassuring thing she could say. She told me that the placenta had attacked very high and that I was caring her towards my back which makes me look a like smaller then others. But our little girl was healthy!

She did point out one thing...Bliss' cute, large nose! She has Daddy's nose! I'm sure she'll pull it off and make it look good.

Here are our new pictures...these look like a baby, not an alien.