13 weeks (P2)

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!