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So hubby and I went for my 2nd u/s yesterday...  Initially everything seemed fine.  The baby showed up right away on the screen and he/she was very active - jumping, turning, stretching his/her arms...  It was pretty surreal to realize that the object on the screen was living and growing inside of me.  I have only just begun to show as of last week so it really hasn't hit me that something is in there.  At this point it looks more like a beer gut than a baby bump.  The tech continued all of her measurements and took pics of the baby at all angles...  Then she told me the doctor was going to come in to talk to me.  I knew something wasn't right.  To make a long story short, the NT screening showed a higher than average thickness in the fold.  They proceeded to take some blood to correspond with the testing they had just done.  Now I am just waiting for the results to see if anything abnormal is likely.  If the results don't come back favorably, I'll have to do an amniocentesis - something I DO NOT want to do.  But I supposed if I have to, what other choice do I have...  My OB told me she's seen cases like mine plenty of times only to deliver healthy babies...  But of course she's seen the worse too.  Everyone is telling me not to worry and I know there is nothing I can do about it, but it is impossible not to think of this 24-7.  On top of it all, I still have morning sickness and this monster cold that just seems to be progressively getting worse.  The symptoms are just increasing and I cannot take anything but tylenol, which is useless...  Going to work every morning is a battle and it takes everything in me not to just stay in bed or go back to bed after I've thrown up in the morning or woken up every hour throughout the night...  I pray every night that the next day will bring some relief... 

Hubby has said he feels like he's been living with a different person for the past two months and I don't blame him cuz I don't feel like myself anymore...  He's still been supportive and great though.  He came home early the past two days (he's been working like 12-15 hr days) and tonight he was home by 5 (a miracle) to cook me dinner.  It was actually edible and I was thankful cuz I was starving, but had absolutely no energy to cook or even pickup the phone to order take-out...