We found out today that Thandi is 6 1/2 months pregnant! By June, we will have a baby girl!
Now, you might be asking yourself, why did we only learn that today?
It is a long story, although in a few months it will probably be hilarious. For the past few years, Thandi had some symptoms that led a couple doctors to conclude that she had a condition that would make it hard for her to become pregnant (ovarian cysts). Some of those symptoms got worse last September, and in addition Thandi started feeling nauseous and fatigued. She went to her doctor (a M.D.-Ph.D at UCLA, who is also an assistant professor) and had a standard pregnancy test that turned up negative. Her doctor diagnosed her as having a mild stomach virus.
Over the next few months, her symptoms persisted, and she returned to her doctor several times. In November, she had to see another doctor because her first had an emergency, and that second doctor prescribed an ultrasound, because she thought she felt something in Thandi's abdomen. Thandi had the ultrasound taken on December 1, but when she called back a few days later to get the results, no one could give them to her. Her doctor didn't return multiple calls and faxes, so by the end of December, Thandi decided to switch doctors.
She finally got a new doctor, and an appointment near the middle of January. However, although the new doctor got most of Thandi's medical records from the old one, the ultrasound was nowhere to be found. Thandi told her new doctor all of her symptoms, and added that she wasn't pregnant (based on the diagnosis in September). The new doctor suggested Thandi see a metabolic specialist.
In the last week, Thandi started to feel the kicking from what we now know is a baby girl. Worried, she made more efforts to get her ultrasound. She ended up calling the patient advocate at UCLA medical, who faxed her the report from the ultrasound. There it was, on one sheet of paper, clearly written: on December 1, Thandi was 14 weeks pregnant. And no one bothered to let her know. Thandi watches a lot of Discovery Health Channel shows, so given the past diagnoses that suggested she would have a hard time getting pregnant, you can only imagine the theories she had come up with for her illness. The news was a shock and a relief.
This morning, we went to another doctor, and OB-GYN, and had an ultrasound taken. The baby seems to be an active, 2 1/2 pound girl. We'll be having the standard tests done in the next few weeks, but everything seems to be working out fine.
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