Friday News

Finally. A doctor that is willing to work with us this is GOOD news! She listened to our concerns and put me on prescription strength folic acid and recommended continuing with my regular prenatals as well. I guess carrying Max to 27 weeks is good news in regards to everything because she and the other doctors she talked to didn’t think aspirin or any other interventions were necessary. 

Side Note: Our genetic counselor just called and the final autopsy confirms amniotic band syndrome. Which is good news I guess because the chances of it repeating are very very very low.

Other than the medical side, life is good. My mom went back east and that was sad but now hubby and I can sleep and recover! (and possibly work on baby #2!).. well ntnp-ing

And I bought levis jeans for 7 dollars today. Plus its Friday… is there anything better than a Friday?

Genetics And My Mother

Today is the day. Twice. We FINALLY got our appointment with the geneticist and my mother flies in in an hour. After a week and a half of calling and trying to get an appointment we have one. Today at 3:30 we get answers. How is MTHFR going to effect me? What am I going to have to do differently? More importantly what does it mean about trying again and having a healthy baby?! How long do we need to be in the new regimen before its effective and safe? Until then what about birth control...from what I have read I can't take the pill anymore because of clotting, so what do we do? So many questions!!   The other main thing today is my mom. She hasn't been out here in 2 years. Things are finally getting back to normal between us. What will the next 3 weeks bring? I am excited to pick her up and show her my apartment. She hasn't ever seen it so this will be fun. Plus delicious Mexican food for lunch before my appointment. :)

update: appt was a bust. not only did we have to fill out the dreaded paperwork... "number of pregnancies: 1, live children:0" the counselor was a complete waste of time. She said based on our family history it doesn't look genetic and she disregarded the MTHFR by saying the more digging you do the more you will find. I checked out at that point.  I got home and called the hospital to set up a 'pre-conception' appt with a new OB May 1st.