We went to my second doctor's appointment today, July 23rd, at 11:30. Matt and I planned to meet there, but I arrived early. I went ahead and checked in and the nurse called me in immediately. Before I knew it the nurse was taking my blood pressure and asking me to lie down so she could find the heartbeat. It took her a few minutes to find it, but when she did it sounded good and was beating at 166 per minute. Unfortunately, Matt missed it! I was sad he wasn't there, but he'll get to hear it another time; maybe at the ultrasound at 19 weeks. I'm 10.5 weeks now.
The doctor did a physical and said everything looked good. Matt arrived shortly afterwards just in time for our q&a session. One of our questions pertained to getting my hair colored. As many of you know my hair is all gray, so I get it colored and highlighted quite often. My doctor had mentioned that I could color my hair as long as the chemicals didn't touch my scalp; well that's hard to do when you've got to cover so much gray. We asked her about it again and she basically told me that I cannot get my hair colored for the rest of the pregnancy. The research isn't definitive, but it's better to be safe than sorry. I can still get highlights because foil is used which keeps the chemicals off the scalp, but I doubt it'll cover all of the gray. We'll see how creative my stylist, Christina, can be!
I also had to give blood, but I did well and didn’t get light headed. I’ve been known to faint at the sight of my own or others blood. The phlebotomist let me lie down which helped. My next appointment is on August 14th.
Finally, I told my employer today! I swung by the Hitachi office on my way back to the client site and managed to catch both of my bosses in one office. They were really excited for us. I also told my project team and they were very excited for us too! It's nice to be able to tell everyone now because we are not very good at keeping secrets.
