Rainy Season Illneses

It's time of the year that classes starts same as rainy season. Here in the Philippines how ironic schedules that children need to bear rain and floods in going to school. That's the way it is more than a decade and I don't know when the government want to make some schedule change.
Got no chances of avoiding illnesses accompanied by rain and floods. All we have to do is to be prepared and took extra care for prevention.
As a new mom, it saddened me the fact that there will come a time that I need to be paranoid if classes starts because of this scenario. That's why, if only I can and if its possible (with husband's approval)  I am rooting of a homeschooling study based for my kids. This is to ensure their safety. Well my daughter is just 18 months old and thinking this early about schooling is I know some kinda weird. But still I am preparing husband that sooner or later I will insists to have his blessing on what I planned after all maybe if the time comes that it is about our daughter's turn to go to school maybe he's convinced.

I Fired my OB

That was just a joke of coarse.. Hehehe But literally I commit now to a new OB. My former OB seemed to be clue less on what I am pertaining to when it comes to my pregnancy. She is nice but most of the time she acts as if she didn't know what I am talking about. Heller! We're both in a medical field. One very simple and funny example was a Doppler. It is the instrument used to hear the baby's heartbeat aside from using stethoscope and OMG she ask me "what is it look like?.. Ta dah! In a split seconds I decided not to see her again. For a month I content myself having a monitoring through the health center. Also avail for the free pregnancy vaccines. Practicality wise, vaccines in my OB cost much but has the same content when you went to the health centers. So I am pretty sure that I am safe and made the right decision in a month. Now the search is over, finally a good friend suggested me her older sisters OB followed up by Ate Niko, I decided to scheduled a meeting with her last Saturday. No doubt she's good and accommodating. Our perceptions {somehow few knowledge} met halfway so its a mutual understanding. LOL. I will be meeting her again on the 13th of August.

She said upon reading my last ultrasound and laboratories that my baby is fine, he (it's a boy) is so big than usual so she advised then to stop drinking my usual pregnancy milk and changed my multivitamins to specific vitamins. She don't want me to have a hard time delivering  my baby via normal spontaneous delivery. I'll be a very obedient patient Doc!Thanks for the good start.

Blighted Ovum

I have a friend currently suffering these situation I am going to post. I was so sad since yesterday I found about this thing. They have been trying to conceived for two years and my friend had a twice miscarriage now this third scenario makes her feel in deep vain. The couple really praying to have a baby. I wish this time my good friend overcome these trials. I know she can! My prayers is with them. I just want to be thankful to them and I am so flattered that among our big group of friends the couple did told to me first the situation prior to their parents and friends where they were now. All through the miles they preferred to share it to me. Basically means for me that they trusted and took me as a real friend. I will always be thankful to these couple for sharing me the good things and the triumphs of their life throughout the years not physically being together.

Blighted Ovum is a type of  pregnancy loss. Usually it was called as missed abortion or a silent miscarriage. The fertilized egg (ovum) implants in the uterus (womb), but for some reason a baby does not develop. It can happen to anyone.. It usually happens accidentally. The cause of these pregnancy is still unknown. It's thought to be an accident of nature. After the egg was fertilized b the sperm the cells begin dividing. Some cells develop into the embryo, and others develop into the placenta and membranes. In this case the cells that would have become the embryo fail (probably because a mistake happened during fertilization, and there are too many or too few chromosomes), but the cells that become the placenta and membranes keep developing, so the pregnancy sac continues to grow inside the uterus and the placenta starts to form. 

The woman body will not going to recognized that the baby is not developing. The usual pregnancy symptoms can be felt and the presumptive signs. This  will only be found out on the first ultrasound.

 This is how the Blighted ovum ultrasound looks at 12 weeks

 

 A normal 12 week ultrasound

A blighted ovum condition may be treated by a dilatation & curettage (D&C) or local term as raspa. Or it maybe expelled by the body naturally if the woman feel pain and experienced bleeding. Normally women suffer blighted ovum had a successful pregnancy after.

Happiness

Done with my ultrasound last Friday. It was my 21sth week. My OB said I need (she recommends) to have an ultrasound on my 20th since I was complaining of a feeling that something was not normal within my uterus. Seems like my baby is keep on staying on the lower part and I am afraid that I maybe in any risk. We postponed the ultrasound on exactly the 20th week for we want to know and possible to be more visible to visualized the gender in the 21st week. We were exaggeratedly excited. Though Huny didn't have enough and good sleep for two consecutive days, he managed to be still awake and lively to see our baby in the ultrasound monitor.  We were both happy checking on him/her inside.

At first, Huny wanted a 3D or 4D ultrasound but I refused cause it only costs too much for us.We were on a tight budget since we're gonna spend for our wedding next month. We only wanted to be sure of the baby's safety and that can also be checked using the regular ultrasound, no need to spend more. We can see the baby when it come out. 

As the ultrasound goes, we saw the fetus inside. He is moving, waving his hands as if he knows he/she has been viewed. He smiled. That was so amazing! Huny and I can't control our smile and reaction while undergoing ultrasound. When it's about to view the fetus gender, he/she moves his legs hiding something as if he know what the Ultrasonologist plan. Unfortunately we didn't able to check for the gender. And our baby didn't want to move his/her legs anymore. What he consistently moves was his hands on his/her face. Diverting our attention to his/her actions. Though were sort of disappointed yet were still happy seeing him/her. We didn't went home disappointed much for he/she was showing some talent even inside the womb. =)