I'm OB-less!

I had my regular OB appointment yesterday and my regular doc, Dr. K, is still on maternity leave so I continued my floating and instead saw the brand new doc to the practice, Dr. M. Anyway, they informed me that Dr. K has decided to become a stay at home mom to her three boys! I can't say I blame her at all since I'm doing it too, but I'm a little sad to be losing her. I also couldn't imagine going through all that education - 9 years of medical school and residency! - and then retiring, but I also couldn't imagine having her schedule with three little ones. Her husband is also a Dr so they both have a lot on their plates career-wise. Good for her! I get to see her one more time because she is coming back just for the month of October. So, I now have to choose another of the three docs for my regular one. The one that I really want, Dr. B, is actually pregnant (with her second IVF baby!) and is due right before me so I guess it wouldn't make much sense to pick her, hmmm.

So, the rest of the appointment was fairly uneventful, with a perfectly sized uterus, very strong heartbeat in the 150's and slightly more weight gain that I expected, until Dr. M asked me about my Peri appt. I told her I have it scheduled for Friday and she then asked me if I understood why I needed to see him. I said yes, because of the previa and she said yes, and because we couldn't see the arteries exiting the heart - uh WHAT??? That was the first that I had heard this! She told me that it was nothing to freak out about (easy for her to say), but that it was simply that the sonographers try to see where the two major arteries (pulmonary and aorta) exit the heart because they should exit from the correct chambers and apparently she couldn't get a good enough picture to see. Apparently my Peri has much better equipment for that sort of thing so he can check it for us. I have to believe that this is not a big deal or a sign that something could be wrong or the other two doctors who I've talked to since the ultrasound would have said something. She assured me that everything about the heart that they could see looked perfect. I'm a little worried, but not terribly.

So, in other baby news, we saw my belly jumping for the first time last night! I'm sure that I could have seen it before if I'd stared at my bare belly for long enough, but last night she was really doing karate chops so we could see it through my shirt! Then I lifted it up and we could see it even better. It was so cool! I just love it!