Dr. Appointment Purgatory

[I had posted about this previously, but I had trouble and it got deleted. Thus, the timing is a bit off, since this post is about a Dr. appointment we had a couple weeks-ish back.]

We had what is our first of the "every month" appointments for Amy before they go into 2x month and then every 3 hours or something -- then baby changes lives forever! Wheee! I know it's time to start really screaming inside my head when we have appt's every other week. Yep, then it's time to get really worried.

Aaanyway... this appointment was some basic stuff following the Nuchal Translucency screening dealie. Lots of questions by both of us that were summed up roughly like this (not in any particular order):

  • Amy: "I'm really glad our screening went well and the results were showing that the primary issues are not as much cause for worry. Don't I look happy?"
  • Me: "I'm freaking out! Isn't this freaking anyone else out?"
  • Amy: "Tell me more about how much my belly might grow in the next month or two -- I'm running into wardrobe problems."
  • Me: "Seriously? Nobody else is freaking out?? Why aren't you freaking out??!? What other tests and data and not-so-conclusive results are we going to have to endure before I know that this baby will come out healthy??"
  • Amy: "I'm happy. Don't I look happy?"
  • Me: "...AAAAAHHHHHHHH!! Do you have an MRI machine here? I think I just blew a vessel somewhere important-like." *twitch, twitch*
  • Well... it went something like that, as I recall. That's not a conversation, mind you -- just a random sampling of how things went.

    Overall, after the screening, the results are encouraging, but I'm finding it difficult to feel all that comforted, for some reason. I'm not really sure why, but I just don't like the notion that nothing is really "conclusive" at this stage. I'm likely just too stressed in general to let my guard down and "enjoy" what's going on. I'm working on fixing that, but it's still rough.

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