So last night, I was sitting there talking on the phone to a friend, when I started to get cramps... And they only got worse from there. I ended up on the floor in the fetal position, crying in agony. DH found me and called an ambulance, I ended up spending part of last night in the ER...
The bad news... I have a corpus luteum cyst the size of a golf ball on my right ovary. That's what caused the pain - they say something must have pushed on it, like a BM or gas or something, and caused the excruciating pain... But at least it is just a cyst.
Had an u/s in the ER, saw a sac but nothing else because it was their cr@ppy portable u/s machine. They did an HCG draw, etc. and asked if I wanted to stay overnight for a trans-vaginal u/s or come back in the morning... I wanted to go HOME! Cervix was closed, no bleeding, so I was OK to come home but had to go back if it happened again...
Internal u/s this morning, showed a sac AND a yolk sac (yay!) - no fetal pole yet, so I'll be having an u/s scheduled for next week to check again. They say by 6 weeks 4 days, I SHOULD be able to see a hb...
Went to my family doc... If you've been following me at all, you know how much I hate hospitals, but I hate him even more... Well, he kind of redeemed himself today. My HCG level was 18000+ - I'm doubling about every 44 hours. And when he told me that, he said "so suck it up, you're still pregnant!" and he smiled. Yeah, I hate him a little less now...
He asked if DH and I had booked a prenatal appointment yet, and I said no because I want to go with a midwife... He told me he'd rather I didn't because it is my first delivery, we don't know whats going to happen... I said I'm so terrified of being induced or getting cut or getting a c-section, I want to do this as naturally as possible and be free to move around, eat, drink, see who I want and be near my baby.
He said he completely agrees with me.
He doesn't cut episiotomies. He doesn't do caesarians unless absolutely necessary - even in women who's labour has progressed for DAYS after their waters have broken. He says as long as there is no fever, there is no infection and no need to interfere. The hospital here, as much as I hate it, follows birthing plans... They have birth balls, and water tubs, and they even have stools so you can push on the toilet with your legs up higher. They do what is best for YOU, not what is best for them...
He even said, most women don't need epidurals, he only gives them if the patients insist because they can slow labour down and cause other problems. He works in a rotation with 7 other doctors and 3 ob/gyns, and their collective c-section rate - he claims - is less than 15%.
I still have a lot of questions for him before I decide whether I'm going with him or a midwife, but I did book a prenatal appointment with him since my midwife still hasn't gotten back to me for December 30th - so we should see a HB by next week, HCG is PERFECT for being this far along, there is a yolk sac and amniotic sac, in fact my uterus has already expanded, and I have a giant corpus luteal cyst that caused all of the pain...
DH was amazing last night, I know now that we can do this naturally because of how he was last night - he never left my side, calmed me down, he saved me - with my fear of hospitals, he was the only reason I didn't have a major anxiety episode last night. I couldn't ask for a better husband
So now, I try not to do too much because it makes the cyst hurt, and hurry up and wait for the u/s next week and appointment in 2 weeks.
I was so scared, but instead of finding out bad news, I found out some "ouch that kind of hurts but its common" news, and that baby is doing great!
Now I'm tired... LOL
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