17 Week Appointment

So I went in for my Dr's appointment today feeling great. I was in a great mood, didn't feel sick like I had this morning (couldn't stop throwing up ) and was just overall ready for the appointment. We do the urine check which was fine (no trace of the albumin that had been in the last sample) and then we start the vital signs. I didn't gain a single pound...which was nice...and the Dr was happy about. But then we moved on to my blood pressure. I've almost always ran 120/80's... However today, my blood pressure was 136/96. The nurse wasn't happy - everything else checked out though. So DH and I go into the exam room to wait for the Dr and he comes in and looks at the chart - sees the BP and immediately tells me to lay down. So I lay down, he checks the baby's HR and everything is fine - sounded like about 160's or so... Then he checks the fundal height, which was also good. Next thing I know, he's telling me to lay on my side and that I'm going to lay there until my pressure comes down. If it doesn't come down enough, he says, he's going to ship me to the hospital. Just the thing to tell a pregnant woman who's pressure is already too high. So I lay down, think relaxing things, and he starts telling me that we're not going to wait until 20 weeks(+) to do the BIG U/S...he's going to bump it up to tomorrow to make sure that everything's OK with the baby because of the blood pressure. He also wants to draw more blood and do a 24 hour urine test to make sure that everything is in order...all in all, they don't know what caused the spike because as the nurse told him, I was fine when I came in and didn't show any signs of being nervous, etc. After all that, he tells me to come back in 2 weeks...which is 2 weeks shy of the monthly schedule I'm supposed to be on... They then recheck my pressure - and it's down, to 118/66... I can't explain it, the nurse can't explain it, the Dr looked surprised....no one knows what the deal is. So while I'm not as nervous as I was then, I'm still a tad nervous. But thankfully, we find out tomorrow what the sex is, (hopefully if peanut cooperates) and they're going to recheck the pressure tomorrow to make sure it's better.