All is well
Doctor’s appointments can induce a great deal of anxiety. With a baby in the picture, visits to the doctor are even more nerve racking. We had an appointment this morning to discuss the results of our first semester screening, a combination of sonograms and blood protein screening. About two weeks ago, we left the screening feeling pretty good, as the technician had assured us everything was normal, and we saw for ourselves that we had an extremely active baby on our hands. Today we discussed the blood test with our normal doctor. She was very pleased with the results. Our odds for Down Syndrome are something like 1 in 12,301 (it was a strange number) and the odds for trisomy 18 were something like 1 in 22,000. The doctor said these were the best odds she had seen, which made us feel pretty good. All our other screening has come back negative as well, which is also reassuring. There was no ultrasound this time, but we did get to hear the baby’s heart beat through a fetal monitor (it sounded a lot like the clip on this page). The only stressful part was the minute or so it took the doctor to find the heart beat, but once found it was nice a strong.
You might be an academic if you use SEM-ester instead of TRI-mester when talking about pregnancy.
I guess spending the last 12 years either attending or working at a university have affected me more than I realized!