Thursday, 21 May 2009

• It's a......

  
  Well, I had my regular doctor's appointment on Monday. I got to meet the actual lady who will deliver my baby for the first time. All she did was listen to the heartbeat mostly. She felt my tummy and she changed the due date back to October 19th, which would make me 18 weeks pregnant. We had an appointment today with a geneticist and my doctor told us that we would have a detailed ultrasound while we were there, so we were excited.
  
  We saw the geneticist today. The reason I was referred over there is sort of unknown, at least to the geneticist lol. Well, we went to Planned Parenthood when we first found out I was pregnant. They just did a pregnancy test, and then because I had cancer (when I was 18), they said my pregnancy is high risk. So they referred us to another place because Planned Parenthood doesn't deal with high risk pregnancies. So we started going to the other place and when we asked a lady exactly why the pregnancy is considered to be high risk, she said, "I'll refer you to Dr. Helm, a geneticist, he'll be able to answer all your questions." But for our regular appointment, the doctor said, "oh, you're seeing Dr. Helm on Wednesday?"  "Yeah, because we were told it's a high risk pregnancy."  "No it's not. The cancer is hereditary, but the pregnancy is fine." So we went there anyway, mostly because we wanted to see if we could find out the sex of the baby, not really concerned about the pregnancy anymore. We never saw Dr. Helm, we only got to talk to a genetic counselor and it was on a webcam, so that was a little different. She told us that she doesn't specialize in cancer related stuff, but since we were there, we went over our family history and they drew blood to see if I'm a carrier of a few things. Oh, and they said based on the ultrasound, my due date is October 27th. I'm scheduled to have my regular ultrasound on the 28th, so I think whatever the due date they say is at that time, I'll probably stick with.
  
  So, yeah we had an ultrasound. And we found out........
  
  
  
  We're having a boy .
  
  Since it was a detailed ultrasound, we got some 4d pictures that is covered by the insurance. We might get it done one more time when the baby is older, but we'd probably have to pay for it out of our own pockets so it's going to depend on how much is costs. And now I introduce to you, weighing in at 9 ounces....
  
  
  Seth David
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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