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You’re fired!

Today MFS called to give me good news. The culture came back negative for a UTI. Yay! Then the nurse said, that means it can be pre-eclampsia. They want me to do a 24 urine capture for testing. I get

Posted in Advanced Maternal Age, Diagnosis, Road Bumps, Tests

Stop making me feel bad

Today we went into MFS for an anatomy scan. Things were going okay until the Dr. came in.   She wanted to review all previous tests and the current ultrasounds.  Beta#2 has a little extra calcium in the heart. She says

Posted in Advanced Maternal Age, Road Bumps

Glucose….you are such a nasty word

I got a call yesterday that I had failed my 1 hour glucose test. AHHHHH! This happened with Caroline’s pregnancy also.  But then I passed the 3 hour test.  So this morning, I sat in the Dr.’s office for just

Posted in Advanced Maternal Age, Road Bumps, Tests

No! I don’t want your tests!!!

So today we met with the genetic specialist. They were super behind schedule or something. Almost an hour late. I was getting ready to just dash. When we got in the room, the young lady preceded to explain the test

Posted in Advanced Maternal Age, Road Bumps, Tests

Connections

So today I had my regular OB appointment with Dr. Chua. Perfect timing since I wanted to ask about the inconclusive result.  She was comforting, but couldn’t really provide me too much more information as she does not specialize in

Posted in Advanced Maternal Age, Road Bumps, Tests

What do you mean?

So looking back, I wondered why we opted to take the Panaroma test. Yes, it gives us more peace of mind, but we did not such test for Caroline. Just the Nuchal Ultrasound. Yesterday I was starting to worry about

Posted in Advanced Maternal Age, First time, Road Bumps, Tests