Well, today was the big day. Kevin even left work to come with me. Not sure that was a good thing. We sat for an eternity in the waiting room. It always feels like hell waiting to go back.
We got the other side of the room and a tech we didn't know. That concerned me. It's all about the weird patterns sometimes. The good news was that it was the high tech machine with all the fancy 3D and 4D settings.
They went abdominally first. Working in the field I knew they were concerned, there wasn't a heart beat. They quickly suggested an internal vaginal probe, but didn't say why. I knew. When I was changing, I said something to Kevin. He didn't see that.
When they immediately returned with my doctor I knew I was right. The good news was that the internal probe was a much better view and there was our baby's heart beating away. I could have cried.
The baby didn't cooperate for the test really. Though our doctor said he could promise with 100% certainty that our baby was not at risk for Downs because there was nothing to even measure. Of course they said things that worried me too, like the baby was close to the amnion and that the placenta was low. Ah to worry another week...
