I wrote a post about Preparing for Baby in which I talked about how some people feel it’s back luck to name baby before birth or to buy things for baby before birth. I’m sure these people would say that the possible problem with this pregnancy is due to the fact that I’m preparing for baby already. Do I think it’s bad luck now that I know about the possibility of blighted ovum? Actually, I have to say, “No.” I don’t think it was or is bad luck. I don’t know why, I just don’t. Just like I don’t believe that Friday the 13th is a bad luck day either. I’ve actually had rather good Friday the 13th’s.
There is one pregnancy superstition I do abide to though. Many local families say that you shouldn’t wear anything around your neck while pregnant. Now when I was pregnant with my oldest, I had never heard of this before, so I was still wearing a necklace DH gave me. My MIL and also DH’s grandmother told me not to wear it. They were very serious. The said if you wear something around your neck it cannot be a closed loop. If you wear a lei, it must be an open one. They believe that wearing a closed loop item could cause baby’s umbilical cord to wrap around their neck.
Of course, when I heard this I didn’t believe it, but because it was important to them, I stopped wearing things around my neck. When my daughter was born, I remember dr’s putting an oxygen mask on my face telling me to take deep breaths because baby needed oxygen. I remember right after she was born, the resident that delivered her was saying, “Come on baby.” My daughter was a little blue. Her umbilical cord had been partially wrapped around her neck. Was it because I wore something around my neck for a portion of my pregnancy? I don’t know, but since then, I don’t take the chance.
But as far as preparing for baby, I still continue to do so. I am also in much better spirits than I was on Wed. after my dr’s appointment. I know there is hope and I am staying positive. There are many publications out there that say transvaginal ultrasounds will be able to pick up the embryo at about 5.5-6 weeks gestation. When I did my u/s on Wed, I was only at 5 weeks gestation. One website I read also said that the gestational sac is first visible at 4 weeks gestation and that’s exactly when we first saw mine. So maybe I’m not all that off track after all. We’ll just have to wait and see.