GEE thanks

Hi All,

I thought I would give another quick update. I had another appointment on Tuesday. We did another growth ultrasound and Fetal Echocardiogram. They both seemed to go ok. The cardiologist is in the room when doing the echo and I didn't seem to care for this cardiologist as much as the last one. I am glad this was not the first doc I met otherwise I may not have been able to cope as well. She seemed very smart and knew what she was talking about, but her bedside manner kind of sucked. She talked over me the entire time to the ultrasound tech as if I wasn't even there. It was a little awkward. She was kind of short with the ultrasound tech on getting the pictures she needed. Bedside manner comes second in my book as long as she can help take care of my baby but I was in tears after she left. She gave me a short explanation saying they are just trying to figure out how sick she will be when she is born and if they will need to tear a new whole in her heart.( GEE Thanks) She explained that they have no real way of telling what baby will need to go to cath lab or not. As of right now it appeared the blood was mixing OK and she had a floppy atrial septum. As far as I could tell that was a good thing. I may or may not see this Doc again as they work in a group, but as long as she can take care of Norah I will deal with it.

We also had a growth ultrasound and met with a perinatal Doc. Norah is still on the smaller side in the 35 percentile. They said that was all right. Otherwise everything looked ok from this Doc's point of view. Unfortunately she came in shortly after my mini melt down from the heart doc and told me baby was doing great and I was the one with the problem right now. ( Gee Thanks) I think she meant it in a nice way but not the words I needed to hear at the time. She tried answering any questions I had but really had no new information to offer.

After that I had a regular check up. My blood pressure is doing good and although Norah is not gaining a lot of weight that is not a problem we share. I am growing just fine. I met with another perinatal Doc who also specializes in genetics. She brought up that Norah's head is measuring a little small on ultrasound but after meeting me she was not worried about it. She pointed out that my head is a little small in comparison to my body and she probably just inherited that trait from me ( once again Gee thanks).  Although being the one who has to give birth to her, a little smaller head did not sound totally horrible :)

My next appointment will be at 28 weeks where I do my glucose testing. I almost forget about the normal pregnancy stuff  I still have to do. Then I will have a really big day around 31 weeks. We do another echo and growth ultrasound and I will meet the surgeon and neonatologist as well as tour Abbott Mom baby center, the NICU and cardiac ICU where Norah will be. They said I should plan on being there all day. Luckily I have a nurse coordinator to set up all of these appointments and consults. Thanks again for all of the support and prayers.

FYI- The fish are still alive

God Bless,
Amanda