Pregnancy Week 20

I've officially made it halfway through my pregnancy. I'm feeling great. E and I are getting on our feet in our new home. I just applied for a job and I have been hired. I'm  very excited to start on December 6th. 

I went in at 9 am that morning. I was starting my training with the manager. That morning I had a good breakfast but was feeling a little off. 

To my surprise not thirty minutes into my first day did I start feeling really really bad. I started to feel hot and flustered. My eyes started to go dark and I knew if I didn't sit down I was going to faint. 

I asked my manager if I could sit down and the next thing I remember is waking up on the ground in my managers arms with her repeatedly saying "it's ok sam, it's ok." 

That was scary. My mind started racing. They tell you, and when you read, fainting while pregnant is not very good. Something could be terribly wrong. I hadn't seen a doctor since before we left California and I was 14 weeks pregnant. 

My manager called my mom and my mom called my mother in law and E. We went straight to the hospital. 

While there we got to see a new doctor (who later became my new OB and is super fantastic). He checked me out asked me a ton of questions and then sent us for our 20 week anatomy sono.
During the first check up with him we found out the fainting was most likely caused from dehydration. Not a surprise for me, I'm chronically dehydrated ALL THE TIME! He went ahead and measured my belly and I was measuring a week behind ( I was tiny).

20 Weeks Belly Picture

When we went to our sono appointment we were lucky because the sono tech is our cousin. So we got tons of pictures of baby girl (who is still nameless). Baby looked great and Thank God the doctor was correct and the fainting was from dehydration and that baby girl was perfect!!
 But since we know our cousin so well, we were able to read her face and noticed she kept going over and over the babies heart. Of course she couldn't tell us. But I knew that that next Monday I would be receiving a phone call from Doc to tell me some sort of bad/scary news.

But at least over the weekend we could enjoy looking at her 20 week profile pictures.

 

I was right and that next Monday I received a phone call from our new doctor (did I mention he was/is amazing?)

 

The found a spot on her heart called a Golf ball. It's a marker for Down Syndrome. His next plan of action was to send us to Midland (a bigger hospital with better equipment) for a 4D sono to check on baby. He mentioned other testing but I refused.

 

At this point it didn't matter if this baby girl had DS. She was perfect.

 

But of course I was fighting with insurance, and we weren't able to get to Midland to see the other doctor until late January.

 

 

When we got to go to that doctor for that sono E didn't get to go, but my mom and best friend were able to. We went in and the sono tech did the sono. She was sweet and printed us some pictures of baby girl.

 

Then we went into the doctors office. This was a scary visit. As soon as he started talking I started shaking. My mom was just about in tears. He started talking about all the different abnormalities she could have. He focused mostly on the one where they don't live outside the womb for longer than days or weeks. I can't remember which number it was. Then he stopped, pointed his finger at me and said "your baby is perfect and has nothing wrong with her. We do see the golf ball but your baby doesn't have DS or any other abnormality."

 

We drove back home feeling wonderful. She would have been perfect either way. But our baby girl doesn't have DS.

 

 

She looks like her daddy in this sono Picture.