Cerclage Follow Up

Jan. 30

Today we had the follow up at the high risk doctor for my cerclage.  We ended up seeing the third doctor in the practice this time.  It was nice to have been able to see all of them and now we had another party to ask about the continuation of the progesterone.

They did an ultrasound to check the stitch and the baby.  Both looked great.  He tried to point out on the TV screen (the feed from the machine goes to a TV screen that the patient and any others can see) where the stitch is but it was hard for me to see.  He was satisfied though so that was good enough for us.  My cervix in general was still looking good and long.  He said looking at it now you'd never guess I had problems before (of course last time it still looked good at this point too, but I'll take what I can get).  The baby still looks good and was moving around again.  We could see even more detail this time.

We asked him about his opinion on progesterone.  He said he was in the middle.  If he strongly felt one way or another he would tell us to go that way, but the research doesn't strongly support one or the other.  We decided to just stick with the cerclage.  The less irritation around my cervix the better I think.  If at some point they think it's needed we'll do that, but for now I feel good about our decision.  If the doctor we had with Madeline thought it wasn't needed that was good enough for us.  We trust him.

I'll continue with regular appointments at my regular OBGYN and won't come back to the high risk practice until the 20 week anatomy ultrasound.  That's scheduled for mid March.  We'll find out the sex of the baby and make sure all of the organs, body parts, placenta and umbilical chord are as they should be.  It seems far away, but this past week has already flown by so it'll be here before we know it.