It’s a girl!
We had our 20 weeks ultrasound and we found out we are having a healthy baby girl, we couldn’t be happier!
And now the world knows about this pregnancy, mostly because I couldn’t hide my big belly anymore 
The baby is still here
It’s still amazing to me that I’m in my second trimester. I’ve never got this far so I keep thinking this is it and at the same time, waiting for something bad to happen. I’m starting to believe we will have a baby at the end of this pregnancy, which is quite a wonderful thought. In 2 weeks we go to our anatomic ultrasound, and hopefully will find out the sex of the baby. I have a small bump and people are starting to wonder if I’m pregnant. I haven’t told a lot of people yet, just family and a few friends, but I guess I will have to do so very soon.
I am feeling sick, great!
And that’s not an ironic comment. With my previous 3 pregnancies I’ve never had morning sickness, so when I started feeling ever so slightly sick yesterday I was very happy. I’m hoping it’s a good sign.
I just heard that one of my high-school friends is pregnant, I will see her next week when I go back to my hometown for the holidays, that should be fun.
And I can’t use my everyday perfume anymore, it gives me a terrible headache these days.
Pregnant!
So I tested last Thursday and got a positive! I was shocked because I couldn’t pinpoint the ovulation date, but the test lines were never that strong before. I went to the doctor’s office the next morning and had a hcg test; they called me back in the afternoon to say it was above 10,000 and they wanted to see me for an ultrasound. I went there this morning and the doctor said I am 5 weeks and everything looks good. I will be going back after the New Year to have another ultrasound and see the heartbeat. Hopefully it will be a happy New Year!
Hum, when should I test?
So today is one month from when I stopped taking the pill. My period has not shown up yet. I am wondering how much more I should wait before testing. Since I didn’t finish the pill carton, I am not sure how long of a cycle to expect. I am not sure if I ovulated, so I would be surprised if I got a positive result. Oh well, let’s see how long I can wait before driving to the drugstore and buying a pregnancy test.
When you are (not) the only freak in your family
We had a nice Thanksgiving with my husband’s family. Nobody knew about my surgery but my mother-in-law. Then my sister-in-law, sitting right by my side at the table started talking about how she just had a laparoscopy to remove endometriosis! I was surprised, I had no idea she was doing that. I know they are trying to get pregnant too, they got married and immediately started trying because she is in her early forties and there’s no time to lose. She was pretty upset that they aren’t pregnant yet and that she had endometriosis, but I think she was lucky to have found it so fast. I am sure they must be very stressed because of the age factor, but hopefully the doctors are going to keep reacting fast to their situation. We have been on this road for two years so 6 months to me doesn’t seem that crazy; but then I am not her age…
A normal uterus
I had the follow up hysteroscopy today and yeah! – everything was fine. The doctor said he is happy with the way my uterus has healed and that we are ready to start trying to conceive.
I am stopping to take the birth control pill today (the one I was taking because of the surgery). Let’s see if I will ovulate this cycle at all, since it will be probably pretty messed up because of the unfinished pill carton. We are hopeful and a bit scared, but feeling much better than the last two times, when we had no idea what was causing the miscarriages. Fingers crossed!
Healing
I had my post-operation appointment today and the doctor said he thinks everything is fine and that in two weeks, when it’s one month after the surgery, we can start trying to get pregnant again.
Stop right there.
I am not going to start trying to get pregnant again until I have another hysteroscopy to look inside and make sure everything has indeed healed fine. He said he didn’t think it was necessary and after a while (both me and my husband had previously agreed that we would insist on having a follow up hysteroscopy) he finally agreed to do it. It’s scheduled to happen in two weeks. Then I will start thinking about conceiving again.
One thing that intrigued me a lot was the way my doctor was talking about our conception chances. I didn’t like the tone one bit.
First of all, we never had problems conceiving, so why would he doubt our ability to conceive now? Does he know something that we don’t? Is he not telling me something about the surgery? He basically said that we should start trying right away and that we should consider artificial insemination to boost our chances. I asked why would we do that if we never had a problem conceiving and he just said that we shouldn’t waste any time because my endometriosis can come back while I am trying to get pregnant (since the treatment for endometriosis is the birth control pill). I said we will try on our own first for a few months and if we are not successful we will consider his suggestion. But that made me REALLY uncomfortable. I can’t stop thinking that he knows something that he is not telling us.
Back to work – er, maybe not
So I went back to work today, I was feeling OK besides the discomfort around my bellybutton and incisions. I was about half way on my drive there and I started feeling dizzy. I couldn’t believe it! Why would I be feeling dizzy almost 1 week after surgery was beyond me. I took deep breaths and tried to calm myself down, thinking I was going to have a panic attack. I finally made it to the office, my hands were cold and I was sweating like mad.
I talked to some people, checked with my manager if everything was OK, he asked about the surgery and bla bla bla. I started catching up with my emails and started feeling dizzy again. I called the doctor’s office.
The nurse called me back and told me to go home, or better yet, have my husband come and pick me up. She said that I was feeling like this because of the surgery and that it is fairly normal, even that it was almost one week later. She said my doctor wants me to stay at home until Monday and take it slow. Oh well. At least it wasn’t a panick attack.
Bye bye septum
It’s gone.
The endometriosis turned out to be level 4 out of 4. It’s gone too. But it left 4 cuts in my belly. Much more than the doctor had imagined. He said he was very surprised that my endometriosis was so advanced considering I didn’t have symptons and I could get pregnant. He said I was lucky it never got to my tubes.
I woke up from the surgery and I was feeling fine and a bit sleepy. Nothing strange. The nurse gave me some fruit juice and I kept it down. She waited around 10-20 minutes and then she brought me some blueberry muffins. I ate the muffins. Fine. 30 minutes later I was feeling really sick. And I stayed that way all day long. I was the first patient to have surgery and the last one to leave the hospital, at about 5 PM. Totally sucked.
The nurse said it was because my surgery took much longer than expected (because of the endometriosis) so I ended up needing way more anesthesia than they had initially thought.
I finally walked out to the car with my husband and we went to the drive-thru pharmacy inside the hospital campus to get the drugs I would need to take for the next couple of days. I called my mom to say that the surgery went well and 5 minutes into the conversation I puked. Many times. Basically everything the nurse gave me to eat during the day. Luckily I had a bag for that purpose in my hand and I reacted fast enough to puke inside of the bag and not make a mess of myself or the car.
We went back to the surgery building to tell the nurse I had puked and my doctor was walking out at that exact time. He saw me and came to the car to see if I was OK, and then gave me a prescription for the nausea.
We finally got home about 6:30 PM and I could barely walk. My bellybuttom was SO sore, I couldn’t believe it. I got to the couch and just stayed there, useless. My friends came to see me and cooked some light dinner, it was very nice of them.
Since then I have just been laying on the couch all day long and drinking lots of fluids. The nausea persisted until Monday and I am sooo glad that I got the nausea medicine on my way out of the hospital. Today is Tuesday and I guess I will get back to work tomorrow. Not sure how I am going to be able to sit up all day long but we’ll see.
