My GP tested my urine, ordered blood tests and a full abdominal ultrasound to fully investigate what had happened. She doubted it was a gallbladder attack, as my pain the next day had changed.
The ultrasound revealed 2-3mm stones in my gallbladder and a funky lil embie that did a 180 degree turn whilst we were watching it! It was sooooooooooooo cute! Today was the first day we saw it in an upright position in my body, as every other time it was on its side.
Anyways the GP looked at all of my results later that day and advised that the stones in the gallbladder are normal and that it wouldn't have been enough to have caused such an attack.
She put it down to the OHSS. I think I agree with her. I remember my first time with OHSS my husband had to take me to the emergency room with immense pain that resembled what I had the night before. Super scary!
I'm now 13 weeks 6 days and itching for another ultrasound. I feel like I might be more relaxed and comfortable if i have one a week! I wish!
This week has been fairly good, I've had a few lil aches and pains which i have put down to embie growing and my uterus stretching etc. I've also had a discomfort type feeling where my pubic bone meets my abdomen whenever I am going between standing or sitting. I feel it may be a OHSS thing more than a baby thing, but it still worries me. I have decided if it persists today and tomorrow I'm going to call the midwife tomorrow afternoon and have a bit of a whinge and see what she thinks.
I am now totally over OHSS and am dying for the symptoms of it to 'f' the hell off! I was imagining at the end of the 1st trimester for my tummy to go back to a normal 13 week pregnant size as the bloat would now be a thing of the past. However I was sadly mistakened as by belly has not decreased in size a single centimetre!
I read this morning that it can take up to the 15 week mark for the HCG levels to settle back down to what they were when you first fell pregnant, so maybe it is going to take until then?
Emotionally I think I am going really well considering..........I still have this terrible feeling that the baby won't make it in the back of my mind the whole time, but I balance that with telling myself that the chances of that happening are next to nothing, and that its been through the hardest/riskiest bit already, and made it, therefore it's one tough lil cookie!
I know that either way, as long as I continue to do all the right things - not over doing it, no heavy lifting, eating all the right foods, that I'm doing all I can, and the rest isn't really up to me!
I had my TSH tested again with a perfect result of 1. I'm so grateful my thyroid is playing nice!
Its now going to be just over two weeks until our next obs appointment (14/12), where i think we just hear the heartbeat and don't get a scan - which sucks! Its then another 3 weeks from that appointment (04/01) until we have the big scan that looks at absolutely everything and we should then get to find out the sex!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
13 weeks
Today is the first day of 13 weeks pregnant!!!! and also the first day of my 2nd trimester. I absolutely cannot believe it still and feel like I'm in some kind of beautiful dream - that I want to last for another 6 months........ 

This is a pic of what my embie would look like about now.............................................................
We actually got to see embie on the Friday just gone, by matter of a kind of emergency really. On the Thursday night as we had just finished up dinner I started to get waves of pain across the top of my abdomen (just under my chest). They would go from one side right around to the other and by 8.30pm I had the choice to either go to bed and try and ride it out or go to the emergency room because over the two hours they had gotten worse and worse.
I decided to go to the emergency room because I was concerned for embie, even though I was fairly confident the pains had nothing to do with him/her. After we had been seen by the doctor there I was diagnosed with a Gallbladder attack, as when the doctor put pressure on where my Gallbladder was and asked me to take a deep breath in and out, it really hurt.
He sent us home advising that usually a Gallbladder attack was normally for females who were fat and forty. He said that my recent IVF cycles and this pregnancy had increased the hormones in my body which can bring about an attack. He said hopefully it was a light first attack and that I should go home and rest with a panadol.
Well about an hour after being home and going to bed, the pains up'd their anti and set me feeling like I was going to pass out, I go the shivers and my teeth started chattering and the pain was 10 times worse than it was an hour or so before. I got my husband to get me the laptop so I could google how long a Gallbladder attack was meant to last for, and it said 15mins to several hours!!! Trust me to get the several hour version!
The next morning I woke to a tired sore belly from my lower abdomen to right up under my chest and from one side right the way to the other side. The pain had changed to more like whole belly tenderness whenever i moved. I made an appointment to see a GP before work.
To be continued....................
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
10 weeks 1 day

Today I am 10 weeks 1 day pregnant ( i hope).
Since I last posted everything has seemed to have gone fairly smoothly overall. I still had lil bits of mostly brown or a tiny streak of pink every couple of days when i would wipe after going to the loo. Other than that, I noticed at around the 9 week mark, I seemed to loose my 'off feeling' and started to feel a lot more hungry. This concerned me as straight away i was thinking oh no it's a sign that something is wrong.
Last Friday (I was 9 weeks, 4 days) I was at work and had some bright red blood when I wiped. It was more than a spotting amount and I totally freaked out (on the inside). I felt like that was it, the sign that things were all going south, I was kind of shocked really. I straight away made the decision to call my Obstetrician and explain what had happened and ask for an urgent ultrasound. They were quite happy to accommodate me and got me in at the end of their day.
I met our obstetrician for the first time that day and am really happy with my choice, he seems really friendly and competent. He did a scan (my first external one!) and quickly advised that everything was fine! He showed us the embryo on the screen and let us hear the heartbeat to reassure us. I couldn't make out much through my tears of happiness and relief, however my husband said he noticed such a big change from the previous scan - this time embie had little nubs where its arms and legs are that it head was a lot more visible now.
I'm not sure what caused the bleeding, but the obstetrician didn't seem that concerned really, he took a swab from my cervix to scan for any infections, and I haven't heard anything back from them yet, so I'm assuming its all good. I recall on the Wednesday before the bleed I had really bad lower back niggles throughout the day, maybe it was just my uterus growing and adjusting? Who knows? But I haven't had a streak of pink or brown or any other colour of the rainbow since!
I'm so thankful we were able to have that scan as it was over two weeks since the last one and was just over another 2 weeks until the 12 week scan, so it should keep me feeling confident for that brief window of time.......fingers crossed.
I absolutely cannot believe that I am 10 weeks pregnant and am so over the moon excited, proud and thankful! I pray numerous times a day that this pregnancy will make the 'safe' 12 week mark and then hopefully to full term of course!
I still haven't got back that 'off feeling' I had in the earlier weeks (which is good I guess), however I'm still struggling with eating and can never decide what I feel like, or find something that I eat the lot of.
My belly is still quite noticeable - maybe people think I've put on weight? Or maybe it looks like a baby belly - I'm not to sure, I just know that a lot of it must be hyperstim bloat as in the mornings my belly is a lot smaller than by the end of the day!
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