Second beta came back at 317, yay! That's a nice comfortable doubling time of about 39 hours. I have an u/s scheduled for 3/6 when I will be exactly 7 weeks. Otherwise things are good. I have had a few waves of mild nausea and lightheadedness. I'm still running, but much more slowly.
I'm starting to do some research to locate a midwife. The office I am seeing now does only hospital births but most of the homebirth midwives do not do blood work and early u/s so I am sticking with them through the u/s. After that, I'll move to whoever will be my final midwife. The woman I had planned to see before is trying to retire. She still takes some patients but chances are high the actual birth would be attended by her assistant who looks all of 20. I'm sure she's perfectly competent but S- is adamantly opposed to that arrangement so we will keep looking.
I have the name of another midwife who has been highly recommended by several members of my local API group. I will set up an appointment with her after the u/s. Hopefully I will like her because as far as I can tell there are not many other options.
I will also order a doppler after the u/s. I know there are mixed opinions on the things, but I NEED it. ;-) I only use it for a few seconds every other day, though, so I really don't think any harm can be done. This time, I'm getting the one that displays the h/r as I think I might have avoided induction if I'd had it last time. My dr wanted to know if there was any deceleration during contractions after my water broke last time, but we really couldn't tell, so he had me go it. Once I was there with confirmed ruptured membranes there was really no going back.
Anyhoo, for now things are good.
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