We're expecting baby Victoria on October 12th, 2007. Its been an interesting journey with this pregnancy. I've had all of the standard pregnancy symptoms (some that I didnt have at all last time) but this time, they have been about 10 times worse. I had a bit of nausia w/ Brianna, in the early morning and it was gone as soon as I ate something. With Victoria I was near puking every waking moment of every day for most of the first 3 1/2 months. Cravings that were tolerable last time have me wanting to kill someone if I dont get the subject of my craving this time, lol. Although... last time I craved pizza and chocolate, and this time I'm craving fresh fruits and veggies and sushi (which I cannot get because there are no sushi places within a 45 min drive of this hick town).
We found a great midwife this time, and we are just going through the standard prenatal care routine, although with our eyes open this time. Its amazing how many tests and proceedures they just expect you to have without even asking if you want them. They still look at me like I have 3 heads when I ask them what a blood test is for, whats the chance is of it being a false positive (you would be amazed at how many tests come back incorrect due to pregnancy and various other things), if its necessary to have a test at this time or that time, etc. We did have a result come back from the down syndrome blood test that was "bad", and it was a pretty horrible experience. We worried and worried about how bad it would be (the neonatal special care clinic called me to make an appointment and wouldn't tell me why...I had to call my midwife for the information... talk about a scary couple of hours). So after all was said and done, the national average is 1/2% of all babies are born w/ downs syndrome, and after taking the test, it took my probability from 1 in 200 to 1 in 190.... So I was all freaked out for absolutely nothing. We still went to the specialist clinic just to make sure, and we took a "level 2" ultrasound, which showed absolutely no problems what so ever. So not only did we panic over nothing, but we also paid $150 for nothing as well.
On the positive side, we saw without a shadow of a doubt that Victoria is definitely a girl. The detail that the level 2 ultrasound shows even showed all of her little girl parts as well as her heart, abdoment, spinal development, brain, facial development/structure, etc. Regular ultrasounds take about 15 minutes, and mine took about 1 1/2 hours because they measured every single thing (heart stuff, blood flow, brain development, bone structures, spinal column, etc)
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