All Ewan and I decided was that we would rather have a female gynae, preferably located at either Thomson Medical Centre or Mount Alvernia, because of the proximity to our workplace.
I gave Mount Alvernia a call, and a really helpful lady emailed me some links and contacts of doctors.
Mount Alvernia only had a couple of female doctors based there, so I turned my attention to the docs at Thomson Medical.
Thus began my journey of calling several clinics.
Alot of the docs I called were really popular, with waiting lists of three to four weeks.
Of course, this being our first baby, we didn't want to wait so long to confirm the pregnancy!
Each clinic I called would say the same things - 'Congratulations! When was your last period and did you take a home test?'
- which made me feel a little awkward, since the whole purpose of me seeing the doc was to confirm the pregnancy. I wasn't even sure if congratulations were in order yet! (Yes, despite taking eight tests)
I guess, it was still strange getting used to the idea of being pregnant. I felt the same as before, had no signs of morning sickness, no baby bump yet, etc. I wasn't even sure how I was supposed to feel! I carried on with my usual activities, played tennis and ate everything and anything I wanted to.
I finally managed to get an appointment with Dr Caroline Khi at Thomson Medical Centre. Dr Khi had pretty good reviews online, most of them saying she was a sweet, soft spoken lady, which we confirmed later :)
Had to wait about a week before we finally visited her on the 14th of September.
The minute we stepped into her office, she greeted us with a huge "Congratulations!"
"Urm thanks?" I said.
Don't they get it?!! I'm still not sure if I'm pregnant!
Right on cue, Dr Khi said, "ok let's see how far along you are", and she led me to the ultrasound machine.
This is what we saw.
Our first photographs of Baby C!
I thought it (now we know "it" is a "he") looked like a grain of rice, floating in a kind of space bubble.
"Yup", she chuckled, " you definitely are pregnant."
She showed me where my uterus was, my bladder, where Baby C was and the tiny yolk sak that would provide him nourishment till the placenta develops and he starts to take food from me.
Baby C was a mere 0.33cm in length and I was 5 weeks and 3 days pregnant!
I still couldn't believe what was on the ultrasound screen, and my sweet husband later told me that he was so moved when he saw the image that he had to stop himself from crying in the clinic :)
That evening, I met some of my NUS friends for supper and they kept ribbing us about when we would have a baby.
I had to stop from secretly smiling to myself as Ewan and I shrugged and brushed them off.
We wanted our families to be the first to hear the good news!
Hard to imagine he's now grown to full-length and is almost 2kg. It's a real miracle that he grew from smaller than a grain of rice to the size he is now. HE is a miracle!
ReplyDeleteAnd I look forward to the day that he'll be taller tha I am. :)