17 weeks

I went to the doctor today; He seemed less scared of me today, ha ha. I mean more relaxed. I got a tube of blood taken for typing and the AFP triple screen. It screens for Chromosomal irregularities like, Trisomy 18 and Downs syndrome and for Neural Tube defects. It doesn’t give a yes or no answer, it gives chances, For example it could come back you have a 1 and 25% chance of having one of the defects then you need other testing, or it comes back ( mine with Landon) 1 and 250,000% chance of a defect, well then you don’t need any other test. I will know in 2 weeks if I don’t hear anything everything is fine. My blood pressure is good at 100/78, the Baby’s heart rate was 161 bpm, and I have gained 4 pounds in the past month, and that put me back to where I was when I got pregnant. I still feel nausea sometimes, but I am gaining just fine so no need to worry about that one. I can’t hold down the prenatal vitamins he gave me so today he said to get some chewable children vitamins and a folic acid pill once a day, my kids take the children vitamins so I will just take theirs. I go back on the 6th of August for my big ultrasound and for another visit. That is the day before we leave for Disney World, so it works, I am glad to be seeing the dr. before we leave. We still have no plans on finding out what the baby is, but we do have a name picked out if the baby is a girl. We are not sure about a boys name yet. Oh and you can try and guess the Girl’s name we have picked out, but you will never guess right, and we are not telling!
I know we are so mean!!