First Ultrasound!

So yesterday I started experiencing some painful cramping in my left ovary area. I wasn't too worried as it was coming and going but I quickly realized it was becoming more and more painful throughout the evening. I tried to sleep it off and that didn't work out too well. When I woke up I did a little research, I swear google can be the devil and just TMI for a pregnant woman!! Anyhow the main warning I found for my symptoms and location of pain while pregnant was an ectopic pregnancy. Of course it scared me and e pain was still consistent so I called the on call nurse who spoke with my OBGYN who wanted me in immediately just to make sure there was nothing in my fallopian tubes. An ectopic pregnancy can be life threatening if not caught early enough! Dan and I made it to radiology and had an awesome tech who walked us through everything and shared all his info of what he thought and what he could see. I was so thankful as we were both pretty nervous. Baby looked good, right at its expected 5 week age, saw the gestational sack and yolk sac, no fetal pole yet but that's to be expected at 5 weeks. The pain seems to be coming from my left ovary (where the pain was located) where I have 10-15 small follicles and cysts from my PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome). They are known to rupture or burst and fluid is released from them and this is what causes pain. My right ovary had two larger follicles which he said is semi normal, one is usually used to sustain the pregnancy until the placenta takes over. We headed back up to my OBGYN after we left radiology and the doctor repeated and reinforced everything our ultrasound tech had told us and said everything looked good and like a normal progressing pregnancy so far. We will have our previously scheduled normal first prenatal appointment next Wednesday and they will do another ultrasound to follow up since its part of your first appointment anyways! I can't wait to see our little love bug again!!! They plan on monitoring me a little more than normal because of the PCOS so hopefully well get lots of peeks at our little one. For now here is a 5 week photo at the beginning of our little love bugs life!!!

You can see the black round spot which is the gestational sack and the tiny white blob inside is our little love bug!! He/she should be double this size next Wednesday at our next ultrasound!