The stats

Sprout is growing good! At 7 weeks + 4 she measured a tiny bit ahead at 7 +5 ( not a huge difference but much better than growth going in the opposite direction).

Heart beat at 6 weeks - 120

Heart beat at 7 weeks +4 - 173

hematoma at 6 weeks - moderate and next to gestational sac

hematoma at 7 weeks +4 - small and away from sack and above cervix (ie prepare to pass more clots)

Next u/s is Wed at 8 weeks+5 with the MFM who will then become my dictator. He will be number 1 on the hubby and I's speed dials ... and he only works 2 floors up from me at the hospital. God bless the man, he'll need it.

The u/s was fun. The hubby and I are not quite people- and we are very sarcastic. I feel a little badly for the tech having her as her first patients of the morning. We were led back into the u/s room where we had our last u/s with Vincent. It went down like this:

*keep in mind everything was said very nicely - not bitchy as you could probably think from reading what I said - I laugh a lot too and always smile... unless I cry.... but I am still not bitchy to the people just doing there jobs (can you tell I hate when people give me a hard time at work ;p)*

me: this is a sucky room

her: no, they are all like this

me: no, last time I was in this room I found out my 22.5 week old son had reverse diastolic flow and wouldn't be able to survive

her: oh.... do you want to move

me: no thanks - let's give the room from hell a chance to redeem itself

Then the probe was applied to belly

me: o.k. step one - there is a baby in there - the blobish thing

hubby: check

me: look - it still lives - heart is a pumping

hubby: check

me: what's the rate?

her: 173

me: ohh - I high one. Measuring O.K?

her: yep

me: like at 7 weeks 4 days o.k.?

her (laughing): I would have put you further but I can't see the numbers on this computer

me: fine.. how about the hematoma - is it smaller

her: we don't measure volumes

me: oh yes you most certainly do - how else would you know if they are changing size?

her: well it is small and has moved away from baby

me to hubby: fast heart rate that means girl according to the old wives

hubby: clearly he is a boy - look at his penis... oh - that' s his lower torso

me: yeah, your right. You better hope its a boy because a girl with that face would not be popular

at this point the tech was laughing so hard - mind you all we saw on the screen was a blob.

then she came into the room after going to print out the report and told me I was correct - volumes were measured and it shrunk by 50 %. woo hoo.

Then, we left. Then the hubby lost $20, my work put a pay freeze in place so I will not be getting my annual raise and my mortgage will not be readjusted until early next year. Ugh... I don't see how we are going to swing all this financially without me being on-call ... but we will somehow.... I guess :)