To Be 13 Weeks Pregnant

Feel fat and not necessarily pregnant!

You know that stage? It is the stage where your pants are starting to not fit, yet you are not big enough for maternity clothes. You just feel fat, and you don't look pregnant. My pants, especially my work pants are not buttoning anymore. It is really annoying. I started to wear my belly band so that I can still wear my regular suits, but the belly band is pretty annoying.

I finally got my results back from my first trimester screen. They said it would take 7 days for the blood test, and it took 11! I was so mad. Add the pregnancy hormones, and I was pissed!!! On day 8 (last Friday) they told me they didn't have the results and if I didn't hear from them on Monday afternoon to call them. Monday afternoon came and no phone call from the doctor's office. (This isn't my OB office. It is a specialty OB office that handles all the testing and ultrasounds). I called at 3pm and left a message for them. When I called to find out when they closed (knowing that I would probably have to call back), they told me they would be in until 5pm. I called them back at 4:40pm, as like I guessed, they did not call me back. I got their automated voicemail saying that they closed at 4:30pm. I was fuming, especially when they told me they would be in until 5pm. I had already waited the whole weekend for the results and all day Monday. I was not going to wait another day! Calling the answering service was no help. They said they didn't have a "back access" to reach the office once the phones were rolled to them. After that, I left a message on the cell phone of the genetics counselor who we had met with last week voicing my frustration with everything. She ended up calling me back and said that she did have the results. Ugh, it is about time.

And the results were.... Drum roll please... Excellent! The first trimester screen evalutes you on the likelihood that you are carrying a child with Down's Syndrome, or Trisomy 13, 18. The results give you a value. Prior to the test, you start with a basic value that equates to the odds for women your age. I received results equivalent to a 20 yearl old! Awesome! Keith, you are married to a 20 year old.