Let's see, I left off with the check-up with the RE regarding the spotting. Everything was fine. So we had the follow-up with the peri on 7/6. Once again everything looked good. T & L were both there for that appointment and they found out that they are going to have a baby boy! They are so thrilled!
The next week I DIDN'T have to go to San Francisco! It was the first time in 8 weeks that I didn't make a trip to the city.
So today I made the trip again for another check-up with the Peri. He just wanted to check on the progress and possibly do an amnio. That scared me because of the pain I had from the last procedure. But I would do what had to be done. L told me before the appointment that she wasn't sure an amnio needed to be done but that the Dr's were suggesting it to put her mind at rest and that she felt she should do what they suggested. But today the Peri actually said that everything looked as good as can be with the baby and he sees no reason to do an amnio and would suggest it not be done! Yay! I like him :-)
I'm almost 16 weeks along so he couldn't consider this the "official" 18 week anatomy scan, but he still said everything is great. So I'll go back again in 2 weeks for the "official" one. Then, I think.., I'll be done with the trips to SF and can start seeing someone local!
There's one other change that we're working on. I've agreed to deliver in San Francisco instead of near home. It means a lot to T & L that their baby be born in the city, just like the 2 of them were. So today we talked a bit about how that would work. With baby girl I had 2 days of pre/early labor but once the real thing started it only took 4 hours. So we joked about how fast I'd have to get to the city. I said that if the baby came too fast and delivered in the car then I'd just tell Scott to keep driving until we got in SF city limits!
The other thing that is currently up in the air is the where/how do I deliver thing. I looked, but there are no free-standing birth centers in the city. That seems crazy to me! So there are 2 options: deliver at UCSF where they have private bathrooms with tubs for laboring in but I'd have to get out to deliver, or home-birth at their place with a midwife. I'm leaning towards the home-birth of course, but I know that's a huge shift for them. She seemed very open to the idea today but I told her to think about it and talk with T to see what they are comfortable with. I'm going to recommend the Business of Being Born documentary to her because it may help. But I really am okay with the UCSF option. Yes, I went into this wanting the water birth. But I also understand this is so much bigger than me. I already had my almost perfect water birth. I'm not going to cause tensions by trying to recreate that. I want them to be comfortable with how their child is born, be it in the hospital or in their home.
Oh, here's 2 final things that I will share:
And here he is! This was from today at 15.5 weeks. He's got his legs up over his head.
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