Baby notouching has a heart beat! It was absolutely amazing. I’m still waiting for my full check up at the maternity hospital, but once a month I can afford to go to the local Polish Clinic to just get a scan. They don’t take blood, don’t measure your blood pressure, don’t weigh you, they don’t even smile, but they do have a scan machine!

Our doctor was Polish and I’m pretty sure her name was Marysia. She barely spoke English, but hey… she had a scan machine!

Marysia: “your uterus is good size, water good, baby size good, you have a small cyst on your ovary so everything good”…..
Did she just say I had a cyst on my ovary??? It was just the way she said it…very “oh, the weather is great today, you will probably die from ovarian cancer, just a great day for the outdoor activities”
Dennis was the first to come out of shock:”Did you say ‘cyst’?”
Marysia: “Yes, but is small. Probably disappear some day.”
Dennis: “When should we expect that?”
Marysia:”How am I suppose to know???”
I was waiting for her to tell us to look it up on the Internet… but she just seemed very annoyed with Dennis: “you ask questions difficult”

I could barely hold my laughter until we got out of the clinic. The whole visit was just a very surreal experience. Seeing the baby and the heartbeat – breathtaking, knowing that I’m also growing a cyst – unexpected (to say the least), having a doctor who can’t answer your questions – priceless.

At home we consulted our Irish family Doctor – Dr. Internet and apparently cysts are not that uncommon during pregnancy, affecting about 1 in 1,000 pregnant women. The vast majority of ovarian masses found during pregnancy are benign. We will keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn’t continue to grow. There is nothing anybody can do during the first trimester. Most cyst removing surgeries are performed during the second trimester. So I guess I will know more in September. Until then I will just have to bond with my cyst. So we named her “my Cyst-er”