Baby Is Going to Give Me a Heart Attack-new update in comments)

missnacholover · August 2014

CLIP!!!
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Update: Thanks so much for everyone's kind words! Definitely made me feel better.

I just got home from the US and it turns out we just have a very chill baby who doesn't like to move a lot. The tech said the movement was "adequate" and that they weren't concerned in that regard, just that baby won't move a lot. She also measured placenta and it is 6 inches thick plus baby is breech. She said all of that makes it even harder to feel movement.

LO sat in there the entire time sucking it's thumb. At one point she was pushing on its head, trying to get it to move (to give me a free 3D pic of its face), and all it did was yawn then continue sucking its thumb. Ha!

She also held the US wand still so I could see baby move (watching it's feet/legs), and it VERY SLOOOWWLLLY stretched out its legs. Not a hard kick at all. Tech said she totally understands why I'm not feeling movement and to just hang in there.

I go for my next appt in 2 weeks. I guess if I'm not feeling more by then, they'll start the every week nonstress test. I'm hoping by then I'm feeling movement! This is the most frustrating feeling ever.

Baby weighed 2 lb 8 oz and they predicted birth weight of 7 lb 7 oz. They redid measurements and said everything was within the normal percentile. Heartrate at US office was 128 (which was funny since it was 140 an hour earlier).

Anyways, thanks again for the support. I'm attaching a pic of baby sucking it's thumb, but it's not very clear.

This cracked me up. Chill kid! I'm glad everything is looking good and I hope you feel more movement in the coming weeks!!

JamieK1882 · August 2014

@missnacholover-I know I couldn't help but laugh. LO seriously was SO over the whole ultrasound. It's hilarious because I'm so Type A high-strung that of COURSE I get the most laid back kid ever. Haha

carmelissa · August 2014

@jamiek1882 - thanks for explaining. that's not what I've been feeling. I'm so glad everything turned out well!

JamieK1882 · August 2014

New update: omg. So the ultrasound place faxed my results from yesterday to my doctor today. The office called me at 1pm and a different doctor than yesterday reviewed the results. Said everything looked good (which they told me yesterday). Asked if I was feeling movement yet and I'm like "umm...not since yesterday." They then proceeded to freak out and said I had to go for the NST TODAY.

I tried arguing with the girl that I literally just had an ultrasound yesterday, but she said this doctor would feel more comfortable if I had it done. So now here I lay. I feel like a hypochondriac but I guess better safe than sorry. They said monitor looks good (but I still feel nothing).

JamieK1882 · August 2014

Hmm no idea. No button. Just have monitors hooked up to my belly and watching baby's heartrate change. They said as baby moves heartrate will fluctuate.

Baby isn't moving much, so just have me some pop to drink.