The US - week 7 (and 8!)

Week 7:
Today was the biggest day we've had in quite a while.  Dropped Lydia off at school, headed over the doctor's office for our US...and first laid eyes on our little bean!  I really trully did finally exhale completely - and cried tears of joy and hope and excitement.  We heard the hearbeat, listened to it over and over.  The visit probably could have been half the time it was, but we kept looking and listening.  Heartbeat in the 130's; the miscarriage risk drops to less than 5% with a heartbeat over 100 at this point.  All we needed to hear for now though was that heartbeat.  And with the information from today, we are officially released from the "specialty" office to go see our "regular" OB.

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Week 8:
We recently met our new OB, and she is wonderful.  In fact the entire office was wonderful.  I was not looking forward to having to start over, re-explain and recount our story - but I didn't need to.  It was obvious both the physician and her nursing staff were already familiar with our history, and had spoken with Drs. Pritts/Olive's office.  They took time to go through everything about my history, our first pregnancy, the labor and delivery, the follow up, and the entire Asherman's story.  We laid out some plans for monitoring, issues to address along the way, thoughts about delivery and went over every question/concern I could think of.  I have every faith that we are in confident, capable and caring hands.  And the fact that we got another peak at the bean was a bonus, still with a strong little heartbeat.  So now we wait a little more - another appointment and screening tests and US in a month or so.  It was interesting to learn some of the recommendations that have changed even since our last pregnangy - and how they apply to me even independent of Asherman's Syndrome.  I am 35 for this pregnancy, so automatically labeled "higher risk", which frankly I expected - but my PCOS requires some extra/early screening for fun things like gestational diabetes too.  Ah well, I will endure any number of tests and appointments and studies and the like.  Afterall, someone once told us we wouldn't ever get pregnant again, so it all seems like speed bumps after the detour we took! 

I do feel strongly still that the right physician with the right expertise/skill set has made all the difference for us, and it still frustrates me that my last "expert" tried to refer us across the state, then across the country for another opinion.  Had I not done the research myself we would not have found Dr. Olive.  So in a not too obnoxious way, I would like to update that previous provider on our progress.  I'm thinking an appropriately worded letter will bring him up to speed - what I haven't decided yet is if I should mail it or wait until I'm big enought to waddle in there and drop it off myself.  Suggestions?