There is Life After All

For weeks now I have been concerned because I haven't gained much weight at all and you can not tell I am pregnant at all and we are already 14 weeks along. Especially in the morning, my tummy is as flat as ever. I have had no reassurance that everything is okay because I haven't felt the baby move yet and we haven't needed an early sonogram and our last appointment at 10 weeks it was too early to hear a heart beat. So all this time I have been operating on faith and confidence that everything is great.

But finally this past Wednesday we had our second prenatal check up. We went in saying that basically if we didn't hear from the midwife that one, the baby is the right size and two we hear a heart beat, I was scheduling a sonogram right away. Well after minutes of poking and probing and two Dopplers later we finally picked up a small drum roll of a heart beat.

This little baby has picked just the oddest position to rest in. Apparently my uterus is in a Retroflexed position. Here is a little blurb about that and what difficulties it can cause during my visits:

Diagnostic Difficulties

Uterine position can cause some difficulties during examinations. During manual pelvic examinations performed by a family physician or gynecologist, a retroverted or retroflexed uterus may be more difficult to feel. Retroflexed uteruses can cause examination difficulties during early pregnancy. The baby's heartbeat may not be heard as early in the pregnancy as with an anteverted or retroverted uterus. Retroflexed uteruses may be difficult to image during the abdominal portion of a pelvic or early pregnancy ultrasound, whereas a retroverted uterus may be more difficult to image using transvaginal ultrasonography. These difficulties arise because portions of the uterus are farther away from the transducer, or ultrasound camera.

Read more at Suite101: Uterine Positions: Normal Variations and Associated Difficultieshttp://www.suite101.com/content/uterine-positions-a141677#ixzz14Q64wlYa

 So you can imagine my relief of why it took so long to find the heart beat. This positioning would also explain why my stomach is so small on the outside. I can feel my pants are tighter but didn't really see anything. That is because the baby is growing up and downwards and not toward my tummy. But the good thing is this isn't permanent. My uterus will change to the anteverted position (which is the ideal position) as the pregnancy goes a long and the baby gets bigger. Kind of like a balloon inflating.