Yeah, right.
Actually, after that last post the achiness in my pelvis
continued to nag at me. It didn’t hurt
much but it was constant and didn’t seem to be improving, and I started to
worry that I had a UTI. Finally I
decided to call my doctor to ease my worries.
Everyone online calls their doctor and is told, “If it doesn’t hurt more
than menstrual cramps and there’s no spotting, it’s normal.” It didn’t and there wasn’t, so I made the
call confident I’d get that reassurance and be able to move on. I didn’t - instead, the nurse said, “We have
an appointment open at 9:15 tomorrow, would you like to come in then?” Once an appointment was offered I couldn’t say
no (obviously they suspected something was horribly wrong if they weren’t
giving me the standard line about spotting!), so I made plans to go in the next
morning.
Of course, when I woke up the next day the pain was almost
gone. But since the missed appointment
charge is almost as much as my co-pay, and I’ll never pass up the opportunity for
an ultrasound, I decided to go in anyway.
The doctor was really nice (I’ve now met three out of the four doctors
in this practice and like them all) and told me not to feel silly about coming
in; since they have the ultrasound machine right there in their office, she
said that they don’t mind taking a quick peek when we’re worried. So that’s what we did and – shocker – the babies
were fine, even moving around. She also
checked my cervix and – shocker again – it was long and closed, just like it’s
supposed to be.
I was there for less than five minutes but it was very reassuring,
especially since at the time of that ultrasound I was past the 12 week mark so
starting to be in the range where some people say that the first trimester is
over. And with that reassurance, we really
did tell a LOT of people over the weekend!
There are still a few friends left in the dark, but just because we
haven’t seen them in person since we started telling and haven’t gotten to the
point of calling people with the news yet.
I even told my coworkers! And,
amazingly, I haven’t had my post-telling panic attack thinking that we jinxed
everything!
Speaking of telling, I also figured out the solution to a
problem that’s been nagging at me. See, I’ve
been torn about what exactly to do when we “announce” on Facebook (I’m not a
huge fan of Facebook “announcements” but whatever). I want to acknowledge my infertility in some
way, since I’m sure there are others out there having problems and I want them
to know that they’re not alone, but I don’t want the news of my infertility (which
has been kept 100% OFF Facebook) to overshadow the happy news. Basically I’ve been trying to figure out a
secret code that only infertiles will be able to decipher.
What I’ve finally decided to do is to “like” my fertility
center on Facebook at about the same time that I announce my pregnancy. I’ve always wanted to like the center, but
haven’t been brave enough to publically do it.
By doing it at about the same time as I go public, I figure that anyone who
is curious will put two and two together, and people who don’t think about
infertility probably won’t even notice. I’m
really happy with this plan, and Henry even said that he is going to do the
exact same thing!
So we’re almost ready to go public. Assuming everything goes well at our NT
screen tomorrow, there will be nothing holding us back!
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