First appointment

(week 7)

After the ultrasound drama it was all easy. The only hard part about the first appointment was staying awake lying on the table while I waited an hour for the doctor to be available.

Apparently, the downside of an OBGYN is sometimes they have their hands full delivering babies and such - go figure!

Everything checked out normal. She didn't have an answer about the pain, but with the ultrasound results she had no concerns. She recommended me to a physical therapist in case my back pain was actually a pinched nerve and the root cause of it all.

Just had an annual pap and give up a gallon of blood for testing.

Oh - then I had the brilliant idea to ask if it was okay for me to snowboard. *LAME*

Of course - her answer was "No". I tried to reason with her, saying that I'd take it easy and stay off the moguls and out of the trees, but her rationale was that there was too big a risk from other skiers on the mountain and a crash could be damaging to the baby.

Ugh... I was counting on riding out the rest of the season.
She gave me a note to help me try to get reimbursed for my pass.

I was perfectly willing to ignore the advice and just take it easy on the hill, I mean I take a bigger risk getting behind the wheel of a car everyday!

I shared my doctor's concerns with my husband and his feeling was it just wasn't worth the risk. I could avoid the hill for a season, but I couldn't avoid driving around.

I'm a big girl, I know he's right, but I'm still disappointed. Oh well, it's not like we were getting any good snow this season.
*sigh*

I had really hoped that parenthood wouldn't impact my lifestyle so immediately - color me naive.