Whew!

I just went in for my 8-week u/s this morning and I was a nervous wreck. To recap, I've been spotting since week 4, including the supposedly dread red spotting with some stringy bits. In addition, I flew, took a cruise out of the country over the past 2 weeks and continued to spot, including one instance of passing a dime-sized dark clot. Yea, scary.

Sooo, needless to say, I was becoming more and more concerned as I waited on this u/s. I have had pretty mild early pg symptoms, really only sore boobs and very mild intermittent nausea. Yea, I'm sleepy, but it's hard to draw a line between whether it's just normal tiredness or something more.

My clinic had me scheduled at a location I've never been to with an NP I've never met before since my RE in on vacation. So, I'm sitting in this unfamiliar waiting room as they're taking longer and longer to call me for the u/s and basically hyperventilating. I was waffling between feeling optimistic because besides that dime-sized clot, the spotting never got worse and had actually stopped in the past 3 days, thanks to that lovely bout of food poisoning. And then feeling pessimistic because of that damned dime-sized clot plus convinced that the food poisoning had stopped the spotting by poisoning everything in my gut. Sigh, it's exhausting being in my head.

Anyhoo, they finally took me in. Apparently in this clinic, they're tight on space so they made me undress in the same room as the tech, while she was there!! Granted I had the little curtain, but geez. I felt like I was in a brothel undressing for my client. This is a big money monster clinic, you'd think they could have an adjoining bathroom? What if I had to pee? But I digress, the important part of the story is that Peanut is doing great! Yippee!

Measuring at 8w3d, 2 days beyond what they estimated at the last u/s but right on target for my LMP. The tech said they often get the 1st u/s off by a couple of days because the fetal pole sometimes gets in the way of measuring accurately. Heart rate is a perfect 159bpm (should be between 140-170bpm in the 9th week). The NP was very nice, gave me an A+ for the visit and has released me to the wilds! She wasn't concerned about the spotting since it was light and everything else looked great -- she actually brought up something that no one had mentioned before: since I have a history of severe endo, she said I'm just more likely to spot than other people. Clearly something in my plumbing is predisposed to uterine cells and blood going strange places and she said there is nothing at all to indicate that it's anything more than that.

Nice NP also validated my choice in OBGYN -- I haven't met her yet, but it's this doctor who gets raves from everyone as it affiliated with what's considered the Rolls Royce of OB departments as far as Boston hospitals go. The NP said she always tries to recommend her but that she simply cannot get a patient in there, every time the office starts taking new patients, the spots are snapped up within a couple of days. It's like a Kate Spade sample sale! The funny thing is, her office is right in the same building that I was just in! I was going to have to look it up before my appt in two weeks, but now I know where it is already - small world!

It's kind of sad, in a warped way, to be leaving my clinic, it's been my home away from home for 2.5 years. Would it be dorky of me to call my nurse to thank her and ask her to pass along my thanks to Dr. Faboo?

Anyway, happy weekend everyone! I'll scan the u/s pic of Peanut when I get home tonight (working from the big city of Boston today). I feel like I can exhale for the first time in 2.5 weeks. Everyone with me now.....ahhhh....