16 down...24 more to go.
So, I'm sorry I haven't updated this thing in a while. I meant to keep track of everything going on in my pregnancy on here, but have somehow fallen behind.
I'm now in my 16th week today and have already felt Lump move. It feels oddly like a fish is living in my stomach. My new due date (updated from the last entry a couple of months ago) is September 25, the same day as Kris' grandmother's birthday. I'm already poking out and Kris is even more affectionate and supportive of my wacko mood swings and growing belly. I went and saw the doctor on Tuesday for my check up and to get the results of my first trimester bloodwork. Everything's ok and Lump is healthy and not in danger of having Downs Syndrome. However, my hemoglobin level is a bit lower than it is supposed to be. The doctor's afraid I'm going to become anemic. They took my family's medical history and what they could get from what I knew about Kris' side as he couldn't come to the visit. The only kind of risks involved in my pregnancy is my asthma and my interstitial cystitis. There is a risk of heart problems as my mother's brother was born without one of his openings in his heart and my mother's sister was born with a hole in her heart and did not survive. However, they listened to the heartbeat (which was awesome) and so far, no complications. When they asked about my dad's side of the family, I brought up the clotting disorder and the nurse about freaked out and plagued me with questions about what it was. I've never known the proper name for it, just that it was genetic and it's essentially the opposite of hemophillia where the blood clots too much too fast. However, apparently there are like 3 types of thrombosis and of course I have no idea what it is, and neither does my mother or rather she forgot what it was.
My doctor freaks out and tells me to find out and call her back later that week. I can only think *oh crap* in my head. I haven't talked to anyone on that side of the family since I was 13. So I tell my mom and she attempts to contact them, but of course couldn't. So I'm left to decipher the mystery myself. The only thing I know is that one of my aunts had to have both of her legs removed due to the many clots that formed and essentially killed the tissues in her legs. So I look it up and figured out that it wasn't life threatening for the most common one, Factor V Leiden. I read up on the other two: Protein C and Protein S deficiencies. I eventually threw out the Protein S deficiency as no one in my family's Asian, since it's most common in Asians and didn't quite fit the symptoms of my aunt or anyone else very well since everyone would have more symptoms and complications than the extremely fast clotting time. So that leaves Protein C. It can be deadly and fits my aunt's case perfectly. Forms clots generally in the lower extremities and causes tissue damage, and in the most extreme cases death; however in many people it is not that serious and can lead perfectly healthy, symptom-free lives. So I'm thinking this has to be it. So I call my mom and tell her about it and this jogged her memory enough that she remembered.
So what happens now? I don't know as my doctor hasn't tried to bring me in sooner. I don't know if I can be tested for it while pregnant. But I think I do have it since when I tried to give blood a couple of years ago, I clotted under 2 minutes with the needle in my arm, and every cut, scrape, whatever, has clotted fast. So of course this has me freaked out because while most pregnancies go without complication, there is a risk of a clot developing and passing through the placenta into the umbilical cord. I know I sound like I'm jumping to conclusions that this is going to happen to me, but I'm naturally scared that I'm somehow going to kill my baby and I'm worried.
But on the upside, on May 6th, I get a new sonogram and I might be able to find out if Lump is a boy or a girl if it cooperates!
School is going fine. I'm getting a lot of stuff from my mentor as she just had a baby. I'm only going to take one class next semester, and that's 707 with the big research paper. My mentor's going to work with me over the summer and even during the semester even though she's taking a 6 month leave. She's great and wonderful and so supportive.
Anyways, time for bed. Lump is sucking the energy from me!
I'm now in my 16th week today and have already felt Lump move. It feels oddly like a fish is living in my stomach. My new due date (updated from the last entry a couple of months ago) is September 25, the same day as Kris' grandmother's birthday. I'm already poking out and Kris is even more affectionate and supportive of my wacko mood swings and growing belly. I went and saw the doctor on Tuesday for my check up and to get the results of my first trimester bloodwork. Everything's ok and Lump is healthy and not in danger of having Downs Syndrome. However, my hemoglobin level is a bit lower than it is supposed to be. The doctor's afraid I'm going to become anemic. They took my family's medical history and what they could get from what I knew about Kris' side as he couldn't come to the visit. The only kind of risks involved in my pregnancy is my asthma and my interstitial cystitis. There is a risk of heart problems as my mother's brother was born without one of his openings in his heart and my mother's sister was born with a hole in her heart and did not survive. However, they listened to the heartbeat (which was awesome) and so far, no complications. When they asked about my dad's side of the family, I brought up the clotting disorder and the nurse about freaked out and plagued me with questions about what it was. I've never known the proper name for it, just that it was genetic and it's essentially the opposite of hemophillia where the blood clots too much too fast. However, apparently there are like 3 types of thrombosis and of course I have no idea what it is, and neither does my mother or rather she forgot what it was.
My doctor freaks out and tells me to find out and call her back later that week. I can only think *oh crap* in my head. I haven't talked to anyone on that side of the family since I was 13. So I tell my mom and she attempts to contact them, but of course couldn't. So I'm left to decipher the mystery myself. The only thing I know is that one of my aunts had to have both of her legs removed due to the many clots that formed and essentially killed the tissues in her legs. So I look it up and figured out that it wasn't life threatening for the most common one, Factor V Leiden. I read up on the other two: Protein C and Protein S deficiencies. I eventually threw out the Protein S deficiency as no one in my family's Asian, since it's most common in Asians and didn't quite fit the symptoms of my aunt or anyone else very well since everyone would have more symptoms and complications than the extremely fast clotting time. So that leaves Protein C. It can be deadly and fits my aunt's case perfectly. Forms clots generally in the lower extremities and causes tissue damage, and in the most extreme cases death; however in many people it is not that serious and can lead perfectly healthy, symptom-free lives. So I'm thinking this has to be it. So I call my mom and tell her about it and this jogged her memory enough that she remembered.
So what happens now? I don't know as my doctor hasn't tried to bring me in sooner. I don't know if I can be tested for it while pregnant. But I think I do have it since when I tried to give blood a couple of years ago, I clotted under 2 minutes with the needle in my arm, and every cut, scrape, whatever, has clotted fast. So of course this has me freaked out because while most pregnancies go without complication, there is a risk of a clot developing and passing through the placenta into the umbilical cord. I know I sound like I'm jumping to conclusions that this is going to happen to me, but I'm naturally scared that I'm somehow going to kill my baby and I'm worried.
But on the upside, on May 6th, I get a new sonogram and I might be able to find out if Lump is a boy or a girl if it cooperates!
School is going fine. I'm getting a lot of stuff from my mentor as she just had a baby. I'm only going to take one class next semester, and that's 707 with the big research paper. My mentor's going to work with me over the summer and even during the semester even though she's taking a 6 month leave. She's great and wonderful and so supportive.
Anyways, time for bed. Lump is sucking the energy from me!