Back to the Doctor; Visit #1 of Many

Today, I found myself back in a very familiar place.  Jun's ob-gyn's office.  Seems like we were just here even though it was more than two years ago.  The last time we were here together, one of the nurses asked us unexpectedly if we wanted to have Casen that day.  One of the more nerve-wracking questions I've ever been asked, and luckily for me, one that Jun answered so I didn't have to.

This time, I hoped that there would be much less drama... I was almost right.

Seeing that we had had a positive pregnancy test, it meant that we were at least about four weeks along when we took the test, and about six weeks when we got in for a doctors appointment.  So that is what we were expecting to hear when we had out first sonogram (because we're so smart...).  Once again, we were able to get our favorite sonogram technician, Joy, to show us the first pictures of our baby.

She used her tools on the imaging machine, measuring this and that, making notes, and showing us our baby's heartbeat, which we were happy to see was normal. The she asked us,

"How far along are you?"

"About 6 weeks," we confidently replied.

"Well, the measurements I've taken show the baby is younger than that."

She quizzed us over the date of Jun's last period and all the other pertinent questions, and basically came to the conclusion that the baby was behind on his/her growth with the information we gave.  Uh oh.  That doesn't sound good.

After Jun got cleaned up from the sonogram, we were moved to a another room to wait on the doctor.  While we waited, we discussed everything we knew and tried to make sure we were correct with our facts.  Finally, Dr. Kolar came in to see us.  She had a big smile on her face like she always does, happy to see Jun again and excited to see that we were going to have another baby...

Then she looked at the sonogram results... I can remember her letting out a audible "Hmmmm...."

She quizzed us again on dates of periods and the like and we told her the same as we told Joy.  Jun even had a handy app on her phone where she kept track of all this data since we were trying to get pregnant.

Dr. Kolar then asked us about what day we thought the baby was conceived, and since you can track literally EVERYTHING in that app, we had a pretty good idea what day it was.  That day lined up perfectly with when the app said Jun would be ovulating, which made since because, well, we were pregnant.  That is what the app said, and we got the app from the internet, and everything on the internet is true, right?

So, being the smart doctor that she is, she asked, "Is there any other days the baby could have been conceived?"

Jun looked again at her handy-dandy app, and sure enough there was another possibility a week later than the date we thought it would be, but that didn't make sense because Jun would have already ovulated by then, and since the app said... you get the picture.

Dr. Kolar then went on to explain that it's possible that Jun ovulated late in her cycle... which would mean that we got pregnant a week later than we thought we did.  Things started to fall into place, but there was still some uncertainty.  We couldn't know that the later conception date was correct.  We left with two possible outcomes.  Either the baby wasn't developing at the proper rate.... or he/she was really younger than he/she was letting on.  We're really hoping for the second one.

Here we go again....

Well, as the title says, here we go again!  Once again, we find ourselves expecting another addition to our family, this time in late February.  Once again, the magic book worked!  It's amazing what a little science can tell you.  We woke up in the morning, and found that we had the requisite number of high basal temperatures again, so we took a pregnancy test, and we were happy to see that we were once again pregnant.  We took a few more just to be sure, but in the end we were convinced that it was true.

So now, the waiting begins.  I remember that the first pregnancy dragged on  and on.  It seemed like each week took forever.  Maybe that's just because we were nervous and really giddy with anticipation over what it would be like to be parents.  Will this time be the same?  I guess only time will tell.

What about the gender? Is Casen going to have a little "bubba" or "sissy"?  Does he care either way?  I suppose it's going to be difficult for him to even comprehend what is happening as Jun's belly continues to grow.  I mean, we can tell him all day that there is a baby in mama's tummy, but he probably won't understand until we bring the baby home.  As much of a new adventure this will be for Jun and myself, I can't imagine what will be going through his little mind when we bring the baby home and it stays.  Hopefully he won't be too jealous...

I'm definitely excited about adding to our family, and I'm excited to get to keep you all updated again as well.