2nd prenatal visit

I had my first appointment with the midwives at the birthing center today. Let. Me. Tell. You. This is gonna rock. I mean, I feel so informed and empowered. I have a heart murmur (which I knew about but my obgyn never mentioned) and an enlarged thyroid (which the midwife said was due to the pregnancy but she would keep an eye on it) and she was concerned about my weight being low (113). My medical records said my EDD was February 28, the spinny chart thingy said Feb 25. She said since they were 3 days apart, they’d go with the earlier EDD so I magically jumped up to almost 15 weeks along (having just been 12 weeks along last week) and my uterus is measuring at 10 cm from pelvic bone to the top of it… hb at 157 bpm. So, yeah, lots of information and I have a nutrition chart to stick to and a food diary to start. She wants to make sure I’m getting a balanced diet – not just popsicles and water – and that I gain weight. She recommended I drink Ensure regularly. Hmm… I’ve heard that before! So I do my own pee-on-a-stick tests and my own weight checks when I get there. They’re also going to teach me to take my own blood pressure. I’m already feeling so much more involved with this pregnancy than I felt with James’.