The Doctor Will See You Now

Today was a little longer than normal, but we were just happy to get in to see the doctor...eventually. When we arrived we were told he was in a delivery and should return in about 10-15 minutes. Didn't seem like a big deal. I chugged my sugar drink and then we were told to go ahead and walk over the hospital to register. I never even knew you registered ahead of time. When I asked, "Register for.....????" I quickly realized, OH! for labor and delivery. Who knew?! So, we're now officially all registered so that when the big day does come, we just go straight to the L&D floor. Pretty cool!

After that we walked back over to the doctor's office and by that time, almost an hour had passed so my blood draw was near. Before that though, they announced that the doctor was going to have to do a c-section, so it would be at least another hour. We decided to go eat dinner and hope that maybe we'd get lucky and he'd return sooner, which is exactly what happened! Before we even got out of the car to go eat, they called and we returned back to the office.

When we got to see the doctor he had just delivered 4 babies in a little over an hour....wow, busy man! I love that he still makes us feel like he has time for us though. No big news really. I think the sugar concoction must have revved the little guy up, because his heartbeat was in the 150's this time. My blood pressure was nice and low still, weight seems to be on track, and baby appears to be well. The rash I have seems to be a heat rash, so really there are no remedies except to stay cool I guess, which doesn't seem to be too easy for me lately. After explaining the sensations I'd been feeling last Friday (and then on the way home tonight) he said it sounds like Braxton Hicks. I didn't really know enough about them and thought it happened much later in the pregnancy, but apparently it's normal now and is of no concern unless I start to notice more than 6 in an hour. They just feel really weird!!! Mat asked what the survival rate is right now if the baby were to be born.....not that we're at all anticipating it, but just curious....and he said 70%. Pretty amazing! He guessed that the baby is a little less than 3 pounds. Now we start going for visits every 2 weeks. Our next appointment is on Christmas Eve! Mat gets off work early that day. He has managed to make it to every appointment so far, so we were excited to schedule another one at a time he'd be available. Plus, my parents will be in town visiting and I knew my mom would love to come meet the doctor and hear her grandson's heartbeat! Should be a fun visit.

The glucose test results should come back Monday. I'm crossing my fingers and toes that all comes back okie dokie. I'd been pretty lucky with blood draws at this office.....I think I got a little worn out from being poked while going through IVF....but today it took a couple tries as my veins kept rolling. Darn suckers!

I just can't believe that we're this far along in the process. To think that the frequency of our appointments is picking up, childbirth classes start soon, we're registered at the hospital, and that my womb is starting to have little contractions to prepare for the big dance is just MIND BLOWING! I keep thinking this will all seem more real any day now, but sometimes I just have a really hard time believing this is actually happening to us! I am just in awe of this whole process.