A Scare

This pregnancy thing is stressful!! Today I had an awful scare I hope I never have again. I was having sharp pain on my left side, so I went in today to have it checked out. My doctor said it could possibly be an ectopic pregnancy (basically the only option is to abort...the baby is growing in the wrong place). She wanted to rule that out as soon as possible, so she told me I need to go in for an ultrasound. They started to schedule me for that same afternoon. Still not that alarmed by the situation, I told them that wouldn't work because that I would miss teaching my afternoon lessons. They said it didn't matter, that I needed to get it done RIGHT AWAY, and went ahead and called it in for 2:30 at Emory Medical. That "right away" really scared me. The next three hours of waiting to go to my appointment were some of the worst of my life. I kept trying to think about what was true; that God was still in control and that there was no use worrying when I didn't know all the facts.

To my great relief, the technician said that everything was normal, that a ruptured cyst was the cause of the pain, that it was even somewhat normal (normal?? since when is a cyst normal) and would not affect anything. She was even--to her surprise--able to get a ultrasound picture of our Rice Baby. He's just the size of a cooked grain of rice, and she said he was exactly on the average for size at 6 weeks. So instead of coming home with awful news, I came home with a picture of our developing baby! I can't even describe the feeling of looking at that ultrasound as she showed me our "blip" on the screen. It suddenly seemed very real that I will have the privilege of bringing a little person into the world and being the single most important person in his little life.

Rice Baby...you can see the arrow (though it's pretty faint). He's shaped like a bean. Amazing that this tiny little person already has a beating heart and vocal chords! Wonder if he's singing in there....