Week 37
7/21/02 - 7/27/02
We have been saying for weeks that we need to start looking for a pediatrician for the baby. Finally this week, I called one that had a flyer at our doctro's office. We met with her and she was wonderful! We both really liked her. She answered all of our questions and didn;t rush us at all. She also is young and seems very down to earth. I think we (and the baby) will like her.

  As far as the little one, it looks like she just won't give her Mom a week's peace before she arrives!!! Her movements have not been great at all this week and I have been progressively gotten more and more worried.

  Then one day she decides not to move AT ALL, nothing, nada!!!!!!! I kept waiting and waiting. A friend came over and took me to lunch and I thought for sure she would move after that but nothing.

  I started to lose it,  had my friend bring me home and called the doctor's office, all of the doctor's were off!! There was no one there to see, so the nurse said I better go to the hospital for a NST. (The hospital AGAIN!!!!)

  I called Jim at work crying and he came flying home and off we went.

  We get there,  and this woman approaches us. It just so happens that she is the grief counselor that we saw in the hospital when we lost Faith!!!!! (This is not a good thing, we did not care for her... LONG story) She had retired but I guess recently decided to come back to the NST departmen part time. Great, Just what we need, I am not sure if my little one is OK and I have to see this face that only reminds me of our loss!!! 

  Anyway, she was putting the monitors on and as soon as the monitor hit my belly the baby got the hiccups! I couldn't believe it! I thought to myself "You couldn't get hiccups an hour ago and make me feel better!!"

  I was on the monitors for a while, but because of the hiccups and they think also because of my nerves the baby's heartbeat stayed accelerated, so we weren't really getting a good NST.  However she did starting moving around, the little troublemaker!! 

  We ended up doing a bio physical and she did just fine. They checked her amniotic fluid which I was happy about because I have just had this paranoia about leaking fluid lately.

  So hopefully I will survive this week!!! This little girl will behave, and we will FINALLY have our happy ending (and beginning) very soon!!

  I got really depressed this week because  I woke up in the middle of the night one night and the 3 fingers I have rings on were aching!!!!! I guess I must be swelling and not realizing it.
So at 3am I was up trying to get them off.  2 of them came off after a small struggle. Some cold water and soap did it.

  But my wedding bands would not budge!!!! I think cause they are thicker than the others. Jim got up early in the morning and we tried everything we could think of to get it off...string, ice, lotion, etc etc.

  Finally in the shower I was determined and put a ton of soap on my hand.... it hurt like hell and took forever but after much twisting and turning and almost breaking my finger... I got it off... I was so afraid I was gong to have to get it cut off!

  I am so sad. I hope I can put them back on shortly after the baby is born. I thought I was going to be able to keep them on and am afraid now that they are off, with all the weight I have gained... they are never going back on!! UUGGHH!