Surprise!!!

Life is full of surprises! This couldn't have been more true during my rollercoaster ride in the past week. After close to another week of waiting in agony, I decided to see another gynae from Gleneagles recommended by my friend this time.

The doctor gave me a sonogram and there underneath the large cyst, there was a tiny black patch in the uterus area. It was a tiny gestation sac. "Congratulations! You are pregnant!" doc exclaimed. I was in a state of shock! That explains all that is happening to me......feeling hungry all the time, sudden craving for food, bloatedness from indigestions and so forth. Based on the size of the gestation sac, I was already six weeks pregnant. The little embryo has heart beat. It was amazing to see the throbbing little white patch. This confirmed the existence of a little life in my tummy. My life is about to change irreversibly!!! I was filled with excitement and apprehension.

So how will my large cyst affect the pregnancy was the biggest question in my mind. The doctor advised against any operation in the first trimester as the fetus was not developed yet. The second trimester would be good for the operation to remove the cyst as the major organs of the baby would have been developed then. I went home and did some research on the Internet to find out more. The advice given by the doctors were more or less the same. I also checked out the effect of any form of anesthesia on the babies brain development. I realised that any form of anesthesia could potentially affect the baby's brain development adversely.

I shall pray hard for my cyst to reduce in size so that I would not need to undergo any operation during my pregnancy. I am looking forward to my next appointment with my gynae next week.