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Another First!
This was particularly nice because the baby had not been moving much at all the last two days. I was so busy Monday and Tuesday that I didn't even notice, but last night in bed it occurred to me I hadn't felt much movement since Sunday. A few weeks ago this wouldn't have bothered me since movement was pretty sporadic then, but as I mentioned in my last entry, it's become much more frequent in the last two weeks or so. Anyway, I tried all the usual tricks to get the baby moving - played music for it REALLY LOUD, laid on my back, pressed down on my belly - and nothing worked. Nate was already asleep, but after 30 minutes or so of this, I was really starting to freak out. So I woke him up, and wonderful husband that he is, he suggested we get out the doppler. Duh. I'd almost forgotten we had it because we've been using it much less thanks to the vacation and such, and we are sending it back very soon (just waiting on the return label). So I went and grabbed it and fortunately we found a very strong heartbeat, very quickly. I was still a little nervous because I wondered if the sudden lack of movement could be a portent of something ominous, but before I fell asleep, it finally started moving some again, albeit not as strongly as before. And today, it's picked back up quite a bit and gotten good and strong again, to the point where it was moving well enough for me to feel it at about 10:00 tonight. So I'm going to guess it was just a growth spurt or something like that and not worry about it anymore. :)
Other than that, I don't have much baby related news. I've been working like mad all week trying to catch up on the schoolwork I should have been doing all summer. Fortunately, I've made a lot of progress. I am a little nervous, however, because it seems that a project I was planning for this fall may not pan out and I don't want to start over from scratch right now. But I've just gotta roll with the punches, I guess. The other stuff I've been working on - compiling my reading lists for my comps fields - has gone extraordinarily well, so that at least has been a bright spot. I've gotten a couple of lucky breaks (one of them thanks to Nate, who I again point out is the world's best husband - he did some research for me this weekend and found some stuff that had been eluding me) and am now basically caught up with where I should be. I'm almost ready to actually start reading for comps. I think that's a good thing. :)
Just an FYI - I hope to be posting pictures from the shower and a new belly shot soon, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Like I said, I've been working like mad on school stuff all week. (Before that I was just too tired - thank goodness my energy finally returned on Monday.) And I've been busily writing thank you notes, too! So please forgive me, I'll get to it as soon as I can.
Hard to believe my next doctor's appointment is next Monday already. The weeks are really starting to fly by. Once school starts, I'm sure it will go even faster, and before I know it, we'll be holding our little one in our arms. What an amazing, wonderful, awesome thought!
Where Does the Time Go?
Well, we had a busy weekend, and then today I had another doctor's appointment. It went really well. My doctor is very pleased with my blood sugar, my blood pressure is up just a tad but still in a very healthy range, my hemoglobin is excellent (13.9 - far, far from anemic), and I've lost another 2 pounds! I also had to have blood drawn today in preparation for my Rhogam shot in two weeks. That's the shot that protects an Rh- mother from creating antibodies if her baby is Rh+. I'm really not looking forward to it - I'm not squeamish at all about plain old needles, but I HATE shots. The meds usually sting like a son of a gun, and it seems like I usually end up with pain at the injection site for days. Oh well, it's a small price to pay to protect both myself and Duckie, not to mention any future children.
I also got a big shock when the doctor told me to schedule my next appointment for 2 weeks from now! I had been thinking not too long ago that the bi-weekly appointments were probably going to start soon, but I'd honestly kind of forgotten about it. I just can't believe I'm already to the bi-weekly appointments stage. Next thing you know, I'll be going weekly! It's all getting so exciting.
Well, I'm pretty exhausted right now, so I'm going to wrap this up. Adios!
Trip to Indy
Everything is pretty much normal with the baby. Movement is about the same, and I'm feeling about the same. Nothing exciting. Actually, I did have 2 very disturbing dreams about the baby last night. The first I don't remember too well, but some group of "bad people" (I think they may have been terrorists) were spraying toxic clouds of some substance. Apparently, the stuff wasn't horribly toxic to adults - mostly just uncomfortable - but I knew whatever it was could kill the baby. But for some reason I was trapped outside and couldn't get to the safety of indoors, so I kept trying to hold my breath and run through the clouds without inhaling any. The second dream was more vivid and, in many ways, scarier because it was more realistic. I dreamt I was at my next doctor's appointment and they told me there was something wrong with the baby and I needed an immediate C-section. Being only 28 weeks, I was so upset because I knew it meant there was a good chance the baby wouldn't survive. And Nate wasn't there for some reason, but they were pressuring me to make the decision immediately, and I was just bawling, certain I was going to lose the baby. (I think this dream was probably made all the more vivid because a friend I know from online did have to deliver her twin boys on Monday at only 28 weeks, and when I came home today I got the terrible news that they both died yesterday - I cried my eyes out for people I don't even know.) Anyway, I woke up before I could get a hold of Nate or go into surgery, so I don't know what actually would have happened, but I woke up feeling so miserable from this dream.
Well, that's about it. Nate and I are having a small garage sale on Saturday, so I probably won't update again until Sunday. Hopefully I'll really and truly put the shower pictures and a new belly picture up then, but I make no promises! :)