Fwed notes: 14w2d

I sent this to my mom and sis in an email, but forgot to post it here. So I'm doing a little backdating so it goes in the right place...

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I am pretty confident I've started feeling Fwed move in the last few days. I've felt the same fluttering motion I felt at first with Antony about five times (actually, make it six, I just felt it again!) over the last three days. I know it's really early to feel movement, but I felt it at 15w5d last time, and "they" say one can feel it earlier with a second pregnancy. It hasn't lasted for long, only about 30 seconds each time, but it's distinct from anything else I've been feeling recently. I also felt just a wierd sensation around where my uterus is after the last time I felt him move, I imagined that it might be him flipping over. I don't know if they do that yet, but it was somehow a much bigger feeling something.

I had my OB appointment on Thursday, and everything was good. Weighed me, took my bp (100/58), had me pee in a cup, and then brought out the doppler. We could hear the heartbeat instantly, which was nice. Right around 160bpm. After that the doc came in, and said that they didn't have the first trimester results back yet, but that based on the ultrasound they want to change my due date to 9/10! She said if the baby is measuring off by just a few days they don't worry about it, but Fwed was measuring big by nine whole days, so they wanted to change it. I told her that I was 99.99% sure about my ovulation date - she said they wanted to change it regardless.

There were three things she said it would make a difference for - the first trimester screening, if I were to go into preterm labor (they do what they can to stop it before 34 weeks, after they don't), and if I were to not go into labor by my due date. Other than that, it doesn't really make much of a difference. I told her that I fully expect to go late, based on my Mom and sister being a week + late with all their babies... she said that we would definitely take into account that we had changed the due date if that were to happen. I'm still not entirely happy about it. I thought that the dates were right on based on my earlier ultrasound, where they measured the gestional sac (7w4d which is what I was), and crown-rump length (8w1d, so only 4 days ahead) I think I will print out the chart I was keeping with my temperature and ovulation predictor sticks and argue it one more time at my next appointment. I am 100% sure that I did not ovulate nin e days earlier than I thought, that would have put it on day 7 of my cycle, which is just so unlikely. I think Fwed is just big! It seems second babies in our family run that way.

The other interesting thing from the appointment is that I asked if the mass I feel in my abdomen in the morning could be my bladder. Dr. B said that it could - they do have to separate your bladder from your uterus when they do the c-section, and sometimes it doesn't re-attach. So that would explain why I have only had to get up *one* night so far this pregnancy to pee - your bladder is supposed to be in your pelvis, underneath your uterus - with my floating around in my abdomen instead, it's got a lot more room to expand ;-) She said we just need to be aware of it in case I have another C-section. I do wonder where it will go as my uterus expands!

Later that day we got a voicemail with the results of the first tri screen - our probability of Down's syndrome is 1:4000, and trisomy 13/18 is 1:10000, so it's quite unlikely. I still would like to call them back and find out how those numbers change if we use what I think is my correct due date.