I was giddy seeing the bean for the very first time.
I forgot about everything else: the thing stuck in my insides, my nerves, my fears. All I could think of was, “That’s our baby! We have a baby!” I was still in shock, but I was now happy shocked.
“Is everything alright with our baby?” We asked excitedly.
“Well, let’s have the doctor interpret these images for you, okay?” the nurse said.
Blissed out, we were content.
Back in the good doctor’s little office we went to wait while she signed for the ultrasound images.
“Well, congratulations! You’re going to be parents in roughly 8 months!” she grins.
”You’re four weeks along and the baby seems to be holding on.”
We beam at each other. We beam at her and back at each other again.
“However…”
However?
There’s a however!?
“We need to put you on this medicine. Do you see this dark area here…and here? There shouldn’t be any. It means the little place where your baby is living in is not fully attached to your womb.”
And that meant?
“We need to help the baby attach more firmly or we could lose it.”
Whoa.
I couldn’t breathe. I think I crushed Mr. F’s hand but he wasn’t saying anything. I didn’t want to look at him at all.
“It isn’t your fault or anything. This can be brought on by the holiday stress, your travelling, work…there’s a lot of factors involved so we really don’t know what caused this. It just means we have to take it easy and be careful from here on.”
She began writing a prescription but I was barely listening.
I thought it wasn’t going to mean much. I honestly thought I was afraid to have the little bean. Now that I’ve seen that it was growing in me, I felt more afraid of losing that little pulse beating in my belly.
“So don’t drink, don’t smoke, watch what you eat, sleep early and lay off the stress. We’ll keep you on this for two weeks then you come back to me and we’ll see. Okay?”
Mr. F answered for us both. “We’ll see you in two weeks, Doc.”
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