Now that the initial excitement has worn off, life has become pretty much gone back to normal except for S's mood changes. With less than two month remaining for her thesis to end, she has been working a lot. Plus having to fight sudden bouts of morning sickness leaves her pretty much drained. By the end of most days, she's ready to hit the sack early to get ready for the next day.
So one of my favorite activities these days after S goes to bed is to browse through the babycenter.com resources and forums. They've got these forums where all the parents who have their expected delivery date in a particular month come together. It's really cool to hear from all these people who are going through the exact same thing that we are going through. I've been learning a lot of new terminology (which I admit took a while to figure out) ... for example somebody would say something like
'My DH and I decided to tell our DD (who is 4) about the new LO coming into our lives and the EDD'
See .. I totally wrote that myself ... I'm so proud of my self ... haha
Our ultrasound date is Dec 2nd. We haven't heard the baby's heartbeat yet. So we're very excited about this u/s. S will be just about 10 week then, so hopefully, we'll see some baby body features in the u/s instead of just big blob.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The first doctor’s visit and the first ultrasound
A lot of people kept telling us that it was too early to go see a doctor. My argument was: we don’t even know how far along S is. It could either be 6 weeks or either 10 weeks. As always, I overcame the resistance we decided to go see Dr. Khalida Khanum. By that time we had also gotten the hCG results back from the lab, which put us somewhere around 6-7 weeks. But we weren’t backing off and decided to keep our doctor’s appointment for the next day.
The doctor’s office was a strange scene. A lot of middle aged women (many of them memon speaking) were sitting there, almost none of the husbands were there and I was the only guy I saw in my 45 minutes there who actually went into the doctor’s office with their wives. I half expected somebody to stop me from going inside. And I was ready to argue my way inside :P
The doctor wasn’t sure either about how many weeks its been, so she asked us to get an ultrasound. I had a I-Told-You-So smug smile on my face as we walked out of there. Over all the doctor seemed fine, she asked us to come back after 1 month. One fun fact …. This doctor delivered two of my cousins who are now almost 20 years old :D
We went straight to South City hospital for the ultrasound, with a quick stop at KFC. Now I don’t know whether this is because of the pregnancy or S is using this to her advantage …. But she’s been feeling hungry a lot. So obviously we had to stop and get something to eat. The ultrasound lady didn’t let me in, and I had to wait outside
The ultrasound revealed that it’s been 5.5 weeks only. She could see the sac, but couldn’t see the fetus because it was too early. We’ll go back after 10 days to get another ultrasound.
Btw, babcycenter.com puts our due date to be July 1st, 2011. I discovered these awesome inside pregnancy videos http://www.babycenter.com/2_inside-pregnancy-weeks-1-to-9_10302602.bc
Monday, November 1, 2010
HCG Count 11,000 and the joys of internet
About five days ago, I did not know much about different stages of pregnancy and things that go along with it. Then came the positive pregnancy test and I did what a normal (meaning nerdy) software engineer would do to learn about something new. I started googled stuff.
There's soooo much information online that things get dizzy after a while. Since we're not exactly sure how many months S is along ... I convinced everybody ( i.e my mom and S's mom and S) that we HAD to get a quantitative HCG blood test done. We went to AKUH lab for the test this morning. The reports generally are to be collected at the end of the next day. But due to the really awesome online report feature of AKUH, we were able to check the results online around 9pm today.
Her HCG count is 11,098 mIU/ml and according to the following chart, puts her somewhere in her 6th or 7th week.
We're planning to go see a gynecologist tomorrow. Maybe she'll be able to hear the heartbeat of the baby :D
There's soooo much information online that things get dizzy after a while. Since we're not exactly sure how many months S is along ... I convinced everybody ( i.e my mom and S's mom and S) that we HAD to get a quantitative HCG blood test done. We went to AKUH lab for the test this morning. The reports generally are to be collected at the end of the next day. But due to the really awesome online report feature of AKUH, we were able to check the results online around 9pm today.
Her HCG count is 11,098 mIU/ml and according to the following chart, puts her somewhere in her 6th or 7th week.
| Week from the Last Menstrual Period | Amount of HCG in mIU/ml |
| 3 | 5 -50 |
| 4 | 3 - 426 |
| 5 | 19 - 7,340 |
| 6 | 1,080 - 56,500 |
| 7 - 8 | 7,650 - 229,000 |
| 9 - 12 | 25,700 - 288,000 |
| 13 - 16 | 13,300 - 254,000 |
| 17 - 24 | 4,060 - 165,400 |
| 25 - 40 | 3,640 - 117,000 |
We're planning to go see a gynecologist tomorrow. Maybe she'll be able to hear the heartbeat of the baby :D
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