12 weeks - NT scan

I was going to title this post Doctors, doctors, doctors, but I decided that was slightly overdramatic.   I won't be getting that 6 week downtime of no Dr. appointments though.   

I was kind of nervous going in to the NT scan, since this was FET literally nothing has changed since I had C, but I guess that waiting for the other shoe to drop feeling never really goes away.   This time the appt went a lot faster than I remember with C, and thankfully everything looked great!  The nuchal measurement was somewhere around 1.6 and the nasal bone was present.   Combined with the bloodwork I had already completed, my age (the embryo's age in this case) based risk dropped from 1 in 651 for DS/1 in 1185 for Trisomy 13&18 to less than 1 in 10,000...the lowest result you can get.   Baby was moving like crazy most of the scan, but we still got some good pictures.

 

Still no change in me, though crappy eating sent me up 2lbs this week.   I am committing to some type of exercise, even if it is just a few arm strenthening moves, every day until we leave for St. Thomas.

 

 

I had my initial consult with the nurse at my OB last week...mostly just paperwork and going over stuff I already knew.  She did say they would most likely put me on P17 shots, and that they are referring me to MFM to be followed as high risk for pre-term labor.  Mind you, I've already got a referral from the RE to followed because of IVF, but my monitoring now starts at 16 weeks rather than 24ish weeks.  Better safe than sorry of course, but I was looking forward to a few weeks of a doctor free schedule.   So I have my monthly appt. with the midwife on Thursday, then my next u/s with MFM the 25th, right after returning from St Thomas, and I'm guessing my next OB appt will be that week too, then our anatomy scan on April 10th at 19 weeks.