Preggo musings.

You know, this go-round I’m generally a lot less stressed about having a baby.  It may be that we don’t need to make that many major purchases between now and July (Who am I kidding?  I bet it’ll be June.), or it might just be that I’m carrying a different kind of stress and don’t feel like worrying about other stuff.

Whereas before I worried about not getting everything done before Rosco’s arrival, now I worry about this little girl’s health.  I know right now she’s fine, active, and measuring ahead of schedule, but it’s still hard not to worry.  I didn’t have pregnancy losses before Rosco, so I didn’t have to carry that around with me.

Part of what aggravates my worry is this farking fibroid I have.  I didn’t even know I had it until I went in for my first OB appointment at around 10 weeks and they did the viability ultrasound.  Clear as day (to the doctor, anyway), there was a pretty sizable fibroid.  (That fibroid may have been why my period prior to getting preggo was like Hell on Earth.)

I’ve done some research on this (because I’m that type of patient) and asked the docs a few questions about what it would mean if it got larger.  Basically, it’s far enough from the placenta that it’s not affecting the girl, but if it outgrows its blood supply I’m in for a lot of pain.  Like, need to go to the E.R.-type pain.  The doctors don’t think that’ll happen, but that’s the worse-case scenario.  It’s not situated in a place where it would cause me any hemorrhaging problems during labor, but what it does do is give me annoying aches whenever my uterus stretches (which is pretty often, obviously).  Whenever it starts to ache on that side I start clutching and thinking “Oh shit, is this going to be an E.R. day?”

The other thing that sort of freaks me out is that the bicornuate uterus I thought I had is actually a septate uterus.  See, I was never officially told that it was bicornuate, that was just some info I gleaned off a radiology report before I went into surgery for my ectopic last year.  The doctor at my ultrasound week before last actually made a point of coming into the room after the tech left to take a look at “the septate.”  I was like “Do what?”  What this means is that there’s a flap at the top that divides my uterus.  These vary in severity and can cause miscarriages (if the embryo tries to implant on that flap) and fetal growth restriction.  Mine just dips down a bit - it doesn’t create two chambers, it just makes it cozy in there (which is probably why at around 38 weeks with Rosco I felt like he was trying to kill me with his feet).

Now, Rosco was a bit shy of 8 pounds and was born at basically 40 weeks (shy one day).  I don’t think growth restriction is going to be a problem with this little girl, but now that I know that I have abnormal anatomy I’m going to freak out for the rest of this pregnancy.  I mean, how much bigger could Rosco have potentially been?

I’m supposed to go back for another detailed ultrasound at around 26 weeks just to ease their minds that she has enough room.

So…that’s what’s up.

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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  02/05  at  11:36 PM

Just wanted to say…
I’ve been lurking your blog for a couple of years now. Reading your posts helped me take my pregnancy and new- mommyness in stride especially as I was working for a Virginia agency “ahem” at the time and super stressed out. My guy’s little over year younger than R, so when I have the time to read I do. It makes me feel like I have a funny little window into the future. My guy’s out-spoken and strong willed , but, luckily, he has finely honed his survival skills…cuteness and persistence. Parenting sites and What to expect don’t talk about the frustration of being a Mom with the honesty and humor you do. They also seem written for the young doe-eyed type Mom, not the I-had-an eight-track-tape-of-the-Grease-soundtrack-as-a-kid Mom (which is what I am).I have appreciated your writings these couple of years and just wanted to say thank you. BTW, congrats on the preggo-ness. I genuinely hope all goes well.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  02/10  at  01:27 AM

Girl you and me both have issues. I’m 14 weeks, and around 10 weeks I had an ultrasound and the radiologist told me I had twins 1 in my uterus and 1 in my abdomen. Can you believe that. Basically saying 1 egg left and went through the fallopain tubes, up through the ovaries and out into the abdomen. I went to my OB and they were shocked and sent me to the perinatal specialist, who said something like this only happens to 1 in 33,000 cases. I got another ultrasound and they said it’s not a second baby it’s either a cyst or fibroid in the abdomen right off my right ovary. There is nothing they are going to do about it, they said there’s no blood supply going to it so it’s not a cancer or twin, it just a mass. They are calling it a peritoneal cyst.

Posted by Keya  on  02/10  at  12:48 PM

Congrat’s on having a girl.
Can I get your email address, I want to add you to my blog

Posted by Keya  on  02/10  at  12:52 PM