First Check-Up with the OB

Today is my first check-up with my OB. I'm a bit excited and a little bit nervous because I don't know what exactly to expect. Well, this is not the first time I got pregnant but this time is a different case from my first pregnancy. 

I am with my daughter right now who doesn't have a class this afternoon and she too is so excited to come with me. I bet she wants to know how it feels like to be an "ATE" (an older sister for the very first time). 

I am also with my cousin who is a supervising nurse at a hospital and he will accompany me with my check-up for today. He knows a lot of OB and he has a number of them whom he is very close to, so I think I will be very comfortable with that. However, the OB she's closest too was not around so he referred me to another OB who is also known to be a good doctor.

Based from the pre-natal check-up, I'm 7-8 weeks pregnant. Sadly, I only weigh 88 pounds so the doctor told me to eat more that I should for my own good and the baby's health of course. She gave me two kinds of medicines, one of which is an important vitamin with iron which I should take daily for one month. 

The doctor also asked me to undergo a urinalysis test and and a pelvic ultrasound. The urinalysis report was okay, as well as the ultrasound went very well. I'm just so happy with the findings of the ultrasound because the doctor said that as early as today, the heartbeat of my baby is already detected. I just can't explain how happy I am to hear that plus knowing that my EDC is February 10, 2013 - my hubby's birthday. 

I just hope and pray that everything else will be okay during my pregnancy this time around. With my first baby and this second baby, thank God I don't have that morning sickness most pregnant women experience. I also vomited but it happened to me twice only. No headaches and bleeding at all. Only little backaches and tiredness when I move so much. 

By next month, I will be back for my second check-up and hopefully it will went well like the first time.