My Pregnancy, so far...

So today marks the end of week 9 for me. Tomorrow I will start to embark on week 10 of my 40 week journey.

DF and I are expecting our first child together on 8/19/09. We are very excited! We suffered a m/c on 8/14/08, but wasted no time to TTC after getting the green light from my OB. We are very blessed to be successful.

We went to Va. to spend Thanksgiving with my family and we both had a very relaxing, good time. When we got back home, we went back to our normal routine. I was supposed to get AF on 12/10/08 but it never came. I didn’t want to get too excited. Matter of fact, I waited to test until Monday, 12/15/08, and there she was, a positive test! I immediately sent DF a text telling him our good news! He was so excited, as was I. We talked when he got home, and decided that we would wait to tell our families until after the 1st trimester (which is 2/4/09) because of what happened last time. I did tell a few friends though. But when my sister saw me, she said I looked like I was glowing and asked me if I was preggo! I ended up telling her, too, and she is happy for us. I called my OB office to set up an appt and was able to get in on 12/26/08. DF had to work so was unable to go with me. Nothing exciting happened anyways. We just talked about what our plan would be. I will be having another c-section ( I had one 6 yrs ago when I had Kaleb, my son) and I even get to choose the day ‘Lil Bean is born up to 2 weeks early if labor hasn’t started on it’s own, and will have to have a cervical cerclage between 12 and 14 weeks (I was diagnosed with incompetent cervix during my pregnancy with Kaleb). My OB wanted to make sure all was well since what happened last time, so she made an appt. for me to get a sono done somewhere else because they were just so busy and due to the holidays. I had the sono done on 12/28/08. I was able to see my ‘Lil Bean and the heartbeat but it wasn’t audible because it was still so early on. The sonographer said that my OB would call me after she got the results from her. I got that call on 1/13/09, everything was going good but I was put on pelvic rest because my cervix was already showing signs of shortening. That means NO SEXY TIME WITH DF ANYMORE!!! He was totally ok with it though. We knew it was coming, just didn’t anticipate it until after the cerclage. But better safe than sorry!

I got another call from my OB office on 1/15/09, informing me that the results from my pap smear done on my first visit came back showing some abnormal cells. She advised me that I need to have a colposcopy done to rule out cervical cancer. I reminded her of my incompetent cervix, and she agreed that it would be best if the colposcopy is done along with my cervical cerclage to prevent further damaging my already fragile cervix.
I have my next OB appt on 1/28/09. I’m hoping and praying that I get to hear my ‘Lil Bean’s heartbeat (fingers crossed)! While I’m there, I will go ahead and schedule the cerclage and colpo (to be done somewhere between 2/4/09 and 2/14/09). Then I have a follow-up sono on 2/3/09 and an AFP test and blood work to make sure nothing is wrong.

Now I wait until my next OB visit.