Another visit to Nicola

I had another visit today to see Nicola. Everything is going well - I am measuring 27 weeks which is good given that I am almost 27 weeks! Blood pressure is good and bubs heart rate is excellent. I have my Glucose test in 2 weeks. Seeing that I had to do the fasting test last time I am just doing that one this time.

Genevieve loves visiting Dr Nicola and this time decided to play doctors as well and went and sat with Nicola on the doctor's side of the desk.

2nd visit to the OB

We just had a quick visit to Nicola, the obstetrician today to confirm that last weeks scan and blood test results were all good. My ferritin (stored iron) has gone from 18 to 48 and my haemoglobin has gone from 11.7 to 12.6 which is great. She was really happy with the measurements and the risk factor that came out of the tests so there is no need for any additional ones.

Genevieve came with us and was pretty good after having a tanty about wanting to sit on Daddy's chair but once she got past that it was all ok. She helped the OB take my blood pressure and got involved so that was cute.

She tried to find a heartbeat but said that it could be too early at 13 weeks to find it with the doppler thingy, which it was so we didn't get to hear the wisha wisha sound.

So quite an uninteresting visit but all good. I got my referral to book my 19 week scan and go back to the OB in 4 weeks.

Meeting Nicola

Today was my first appointment with our new OB, Nicola Bryan-Yuen. I hadn't met her before but we had been recommended by a doula who was worked with her before. We were certainly not disappointed. She has a wonderful philosophy and manner and is completely supportive of us and our birth plan.

She took my history and then we went in for a scan. I was pretty worried given the bleeding that I had earlier but as soon as she put the ultrasound on my belly we saw our little blob with a good heartbeat. It was wriggling and swimming around so everything looks great. It was measuring 9weeks 2 days which is spot on for the dates that we predicted.

So all in all it was a very good morning. We celebrated with some fresh icecream from one of those gourmet places, before I headed in to work (and Cory, back to the doctor's again, with this persistent virus he's had).