The Joys of Pregnancy

The Joys of Pregnancy. I have broken out into a rash all over my stomach and to make it worse it is very itchy. I went to see the doctor and basically I am to live with it. They are not sure what cause it; allergy or hormone changes from the pregnancy. They don't want to give me any medication that would be transferred to the baby. So this mean I can keep using my lotion for relief and if I just can't take it anymore I can use calamine lotion. I did buy the calamine lotion for the evening to prevent the pink rubbing off on my work clothes. So hopefully this will work and it will clear up in a couple of weeks. On Thursday the rash had worsen to the point of wanting to claw at my skin and to make it even worse it had spread all over. I was able to go see a dermatologist and the doctor took a culture of the clear fluid seeping out of the rash. On Monday I will find out the results. The doctor gave me a low dosage steroid cream to get rid of the rash and I am to take Benadryl for relief and sleep. So far so good. The cream should not hurt the baby due it hardly even getting into the blood stream if at all. I did inform my OBGYN and he agreed to the treatment regiment.
I had my third ultrasound on Friday morning. I'm eight weeks along and things are going great. The baby has almost tripled in size increasing the heart rate from 120 to 168 beats. The baby has started growing her/his limbs and you can see where the head is developing. When I saw the baby on the screen, I couldn't believe how much he/she had grown in just one week. Of course I received pictures. I won't have anything else done until I see my OBGYN on the 26th of November, not sure what will occur on that visit. So until then no more pictures. I'm officially discharged from Dr. Kilts (the specialist in Syracuse).