16 week appointment

Yesterday was my 16 week appointment. I can't believe I'm already on my 16th week. It's just flying by so fast. Rich's mom came along with me. She had the day off and Rich wasn't gonna be home yet from work so I invited her along. It was a pretty quick appointment...urine check, Blood pressure check, weight check, blood work, and baby's heartbeat check. I only gained around 2 more pounds since the last appointment. The blood work they did was the second part of the genetic screening. The challenging part was finding the heartbeat. It kinda made me nervous because it took so long to find it. I thought I'd heart one beat but then it would disappear. Finally we found it and it was strong. The problem was that the baby was moving all over, which is a good thing! Then my OB came in to examine me and he said he's happy how everything is progressing and I am right on track. So my next appointment with him is at 20 weeks...I scheduled it two days after my 20 week ultrasound so hopefully he'll have my results by then. He also wants me to schedule a fetal echocardiogram, which is a sonogram of the baby's heart. It relieved me that he suggested it, with my history of congenital heart defects. So I will schedule that around 22 weeks.

I still have been feeling pretty good overall. I have a cold right now but it seems to be getting better today. I am still pretty tired overall; I am hoping that will go away soon.