New symptoms popping up

Hope everyone has had a great weekend! Ours was pretty good. We drove up to Trenton yesterday morning to pick up more Endometrin. I tell you, the $99.99 we're paying per week for this progesterone medication is a real pain in the hoo-ha, but at least I'll be getting weaned off of this soon when the placenta can take over production of progesterone. We then continued North and visited the Princeton University Art Museum yesterday to view some art & take pics for a paper I need to write in my art class. They have a really nice collection there and the campus is quite beautiful. Then on a more unpleasant note, today I worked for 4 or 5 hours. Blah! Now normally I do NOT work on the weekends but for the particular project I needed to complete, it was much easier to work on it today without email or instant message interruptions and I'm very happy to say it's done! PHEW!

So on to my new symptoms. Yesterday I was nauseous as hell! All nausea, all day. I never did vomit (thank god) but it was that kind of nausea that makes you break out in a cold sweat and you think to yourself, oh, this cannot end well. Wow, I felt like shit! So after our little excursion to Princeton and our lunch date at Applebees, I came home and went to bed. And that my friends was symptom #2. I crawled into bed at 2:30pm and slept for 2 solid hours. It was like I told DH I was tired and within 5 minutes I was out like a light. Now today, the nausea was back to just mild queasiness but after I finished working and eating lunch, you guessed it - in bed and out like a light. So a sudden burst of exhaustion around 2:30 in the afternoon is my latest symptom.

On Friday I did contact a new OB/GYN office that has a number of maternal/fetal medicine specialists on staff and my first appointment with them is December 1st, so only a week and a half away! YAY!! If I wanted to go to their office closest to me I would have had to wait until January 4th, but by driving a few extra miles I can get in over a month earlier. And with my cervix, a month could make all the difference in the world. Pre-term losses due to incompetent cervix generally occur in the 2nd trimester - often between 20-24 weeks. An emergency cerclage (stitching the cervix shut) may be placed at that time (if there is enough cervix left to stitch by that time) but it doesn't always work. At that point it just may be too late to stop the early labor. If a doctor decides to do a preventative cerclage, that is often placed between 12-14 weeks. Those don't always work either, but it's often safer to do them as a preventative measure rather than an emergency measure. So waiting until my 12th week to even have my first visit with the OB/GYN...yeah, that wouldn't be a great idea in my situation. December 1st it is then!

And of course we're still waiting for Wednesday night to get here so we can have our next ultrasound...we just can't wait to see how the little ones will have progressed since we saw them last. Can't wait to post another pic for you all! And lastly, if you'll be traveling this week for Thanksgiving before I make my next post, I wish you safe travels to your destination.