Monday I had a prenatal appt with my midwife. Everything was going great until she went to listen for the heartbeat. I have great blood pressure, weight is good so far (2 lbs down from pre-preggo weight actually) and urine is totally clean. But she could not find the heartbeat. She looked for about 10 minutes and used 2 different wands and it just was not coming up. Now, I know that many women don't hear it until later and it's really common to not hear it till after 12 weeks. But that wasn't making me feel any better! We heard it with Victor at barely 10 weeks and all I could think was that there really was no baby in there... It was awful, I KNEW that it was silly, but I could not shake the feeling that something was wrong. My fantastic midwife sat with me while I cried and then told me if I was that worried that she would schedule me an ultrasound cause she didn't want me to make myself sick worrying.
I readily agreed after Matt and I talked about it and we got scheduled for this morning at 1030. My next door neighbor was going to watch Victor for us so we could go, just the 2 of us, but she got stuck at the car repair shop for 2 hours and so we ended up taking him with us. He is terrified of doctor's offices and I was fairly sure he was going to flip out. Not to mention the fact that if something were really wrong I didn't want him to see me upset.
When we got there I mentioned to the tech that I was really worried and she was so sweet, told me no problem that she was going to try with the external wand first and if we couldn't see enough she'd use the internal. Well, she put the wand on my belly and immediately she says, "welp! there's defintiely a baby in there!!" I hadn't even looked at the screen yet, I was trying to calm Victor a bit cause he was definitely freaking, I think he thought she was hurting me. So I flip my head over to look and sure enough! There's a BABY!!! With little arms and legs and you could see it's little feet kicking!! S/he was moving around like crazy! It's almost funny to think that something inside you is moving so much and you can't feel it yet, totally surreal!
Baby was measuring just a few days ahead of my due date but because it's so close they won't adjust my due date and I'm glad. Besides, I measured ahead with Victor the whole time too, I think my babies just grow a bit faster than the "Average".
The interesting thing that she found is that I have a Fibroid tumor on my uterus. Nobody has ever mentioned a fibroid to me before so it must be something that has popped up recently. From what I've been told and what I've read, Most of the time fibroids do not cause any problems. They are benign tumors and fairly common. At my next ultrasound at 20 weeks they will measure it and keep an eye on it to see where it is. The only reason it may cause a problem is if it grows exponentially or shifts down closer to my cervix. Right now it's just on the front of my uterus and the tech said it'll just make me "pooch out further". Awesome. I was already a house with Victor, not like I needed any extra "pooch" LOL.
