Still holding my breath

I can't believe we're here again. Talking about 'moving on' to my OB. Although this time also talking about the appointment (scheduled for March 11) with the MFM doctors' office for the CVS test.

Anyhow, the ultrasound today was great. The baby's been measuring right on target the last two ultrasounds and again for the third today. We saw head, body, arms, legs (ok, they're little buds, but the arms were moving!), spine, umbilical cord. The yolk sac is getting smaller as it apparently should. Heartbeat was 170. As Dr.Dry said, just about as good a looking pregnancy as you can get.

And yet......that doesn't tell us about any genetic abnormalities. And for that, we have weeks to go yet. The March 11 date is the CVS test itself. The preliminary results we may have in 2-3 days after that. The more detailed results a few weeks thereafter.

But, I've got appointments to keep me busy between now and then. Well, at least two. We're going back for another ultrasound next Thursday. Not strictly needed, of course, but Dr.Dry was almost encouraging it. I think he kind of wants to send us off as best he can (they can't see me past 10 weeks at my clinic.) We both know that my OB's office doesn't have a decent ultrasound machine so I won't get any love there when I go for my first appointment (which we're trying to get scheduled between next week and the March 11 CVS test.) Thankfully, the head doc in my OB practice (who is a patient herself of my husband's practice) who did my D&C after the Trisomy 18 has told my husband that she would see us herself (instead of us having to sit through the nonsense of seeing the nurse practitioner in my OB's office for the initial OB visit.....which would be just a useless repeat of last June's visit.) So, we're still working on getting that scheduled. We've also get records to collect for the OB and MFM offices. They want all of our genetic testing, karyotyping, Trisomy 18 pathology, etc. records.

So, here we are. It's good news, definitely. I just don't yet feel like I can really let go of my breath yet. I'd tell myself that a genetically abnormal fetus is unlikely to have hung on this long or to be growing so well and looking so good at this point, but I know from prior experience that that is just not true. On the other hand, I just can't bring myself to quite believe that we'd fall on the bad side of the statistics yet again.

So, unfortunately, I'm going to be holding my breath for the next month or so. Sigh. (But it's a fairly happy sigh.)