About a week after I found out I was pregnant, I experienced some spotting. I know the rate of miscarriage is extremely high during the first 12 weeks, which caused me to worry. I immediately phoned my doctor, who referred me to the early pregnancy unit at the local hospital. The agony of waiting 24 hours before I could find out if everything was ok with my pregnancy was indescribable.
I arrived at the hospital and they were having trouble with their sonogram machine. It took them forever to set their new machine. It felt like every single thing was making me wait longer and longer to find out if everything was ok with this pregnancy. After about 30 minutes, they finally figured out how to work their machine and called me back into the room. They set me up on the table and I started crying. The ultrasound techs were so sweet and held my hand throughout the process. I didn’t want to look at the screens as I have experienced a miscarriage before and hated the thought of seeing another empty ultrasound.
A few moments later, the tech said “it’s fine”, I thought she was trying to calm my nerves but she then said “no, everything is fine” and told me to look at the screen. There it was my little jellybean moving its little soon to be limbs. Seeing the little jellybean on-screen was magical. I know, I know it sounds cliche but that is exactly how it felt. The tech couldn’t find exactly why I was bleeding but said that everything looked fine. I was also shocked to learn that he was measuring 8 weeks instead of 6 weeks. The tech explained that it just means I ovulated earlier than normal.
After about ten minutes I left the hospital with the first-ever picture of our “jellybean”. I stopped in a coffee shop before heading home and sent my husband the sonogram picture. Looking back on it, I probably should have waited until he got home from work to show him, but I was too excited. I couldn’t contain it for that long! As if I could wait 5 hours to show him the sonogram picture. He was over the moon that everything was ok and our little jellybean was ok. This day gave us more hope that this pregnancy would be healthy. Still taking it day by day but with a bit more happiness each day.
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