Prenatal Appointment #3 (9/2/08)

The doctor explained the antibody issue with us more in detail. He said that it is called a "cold antibody", which means it is only active if my body temp should fall downwardly outside of the normal range. He also mentioned that "if we hadn't gone looking, we would have never known it existed", so it won't have an effect on the pregnancy. Strange but good news!

The doc attempted to locate the baby's heartbeat with a doppler, but was unable to find it, so he got out the office ultrasound equipment just to make sure everything was okay. :) I'm thinking the heartbeat was hard to find b/c the baby was wiggling around so much! When the doc found the baby on the ultrasound, he/she was VERY active, and you could see the heart beating...so everything was fine. I actually saw it kicking it's legs around and I couldn't feel a thing at the time, which I thought was so funny b/c it looks like he/she is trying very hard to be noticed. I actually thought it was so funny that I couldn't help but laugh, which made it harder to keep the ultrasound equipment in place on top of my "bouncing" belly.

On Friday, September 5th, I have an appointmetn at Trinity Hospital to have a "20 week ultrasound" performed. I won't be 20 weeks yet, but I guess it'll be close enough. There is some discrepency when it comes to my due date. As of today I am somewhere between 18W4D and 19W2D, so maybe we will be able to get some info on Friday that coincides with one of the dates we've received so far and we'll call that one "the date". The equipment at Trinity is suppose to be far better than that at my doctor's office, so it will be neat to see the baby in a clearer picture and have the doctor double check things to make sure that everything looks normal.

My next prenatal appointment is on September 30th.

Stay tuned... :)