16 Weeks (continued)

 Oh my gosh!! Ha! This is enough to make you laugh. We did our ultrasound this morning. Baby looked very healthy and had a nice 160 bpm heart rate. But we have no idea still if it is a girl or a boy. Our poor doctor tried every direction she could on my belly to try and see the genitalia, but could not get a good look. Our little darling's legs were slammed shut. I guess we have a modest child :). Still, it is always nice to hear that he/she is healthy and appears to be doing just fine. The only issue that the doctor has continued to come across is my slightly elevated blood pressure. The top number stays in the low 130's and the bottom stays in the 70's. Urine tests were normal and so they do not yet see a threat of preeclampsia. My doctor instructed me to keep track of my blood pressure myself at home and log the results in a notebook for her to see on my next visit. I could not find any pharmacies in the are that had a public use machine anymore so I coughed up 40 bucks on a home machine. Thankfully, it really isn't a bad investment. This way I can take a reading any time I want in the comfort of my own home. I may even get more accurate results because I wont be stressing over traffic or doctor's visits in order to obtain a reading (which could end up raising my blood pressure some). I took a reading as soon as I got home with it and got a result that was right about the same as the doctor's office. The doctor said as long as it does not get any higher I should be OK. But if it does go up, I will have to take some medicine to bring it back down.

  Our next ultrasound will be in a couple of weeks and will be administered by the hospital technicians. This is what my doctor calls "the big one". This one will be done by the hospital techs to determine if there are any issues we need to worry about. She also said that they ought to be able to determine better than she can whether our baby is a boy or a girl. So we will be looking forward to that.

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Thanks for reading. I'll check back in probably next week.