Baby's Heartbeat

Happy Halloween!

This past weekend, I heard the baby's heartbeat just by putting my ear to Jessica's belly. It was pretty neat and sounded like a rapid clicking, much softer, but more rapid, than Jessica's pulse.

We also put the baby to work at another theme park, Epcot this time, where we were able to bypass lines for Soaring and the new (pretty lame) Nemo ride in "The Seas" ("The Living Seas" is out). The pass we got is good through January, though our season passes expire at the start of December.

On the negative side, Innoventions now has a Segway exhibit that lets everyone ride one... that is unless you are pregnant

Doctor's Appointment

Had another doctor's appointment and it went fine. This one was with Dr. Marks, the only male doctor in the practice, who is an interesting character with an offbeat sense of humor.

It's interesting how much responsibility the patient has, particularly since doctor's typically think most patients are ignorant fools. Since Jessica's bloodwork continually comes back showing low iron, the office calls and tells her to take iron supplements.... then the doctors tell her not to. Since she has anemia, a low count is normal for her. When we asked Dr. Marks (again) since the office called (again), he initally reviewed the charts and told her to take iron every other day since her iron was down from the initial screening. Jessica caught that the count he mentioned was very high and challenged that she has never had a count that high and it turned out he was looking at my chart! So no more iron.

For the actual delivery, we have the responsibility of making a list of things to present to the hospital when we arrive. Basically we have to tell the hospital staff a bunch of things because they won't have the time or inclination to get the information from charts or our doctors.

Baby pluses and minuses

We went to Busch Garden's Howl-O-Scream this weekend, and because of the baby, we were able to get a pass that allowed our entire party to bypass the lines and go to the VIP line. It was VERY cool, because the lines were ridiculous, 2 hours long for most things at one point during the evening. Even for the roller coasters, which Jessica did NOT go on, the rest of us were able to bypass the line while Jessica got some rest.

Kudos to Busch Gardens because Jessica would not have been able to make it through one of those 2 hour lines! The baby has been sitting in such a way that the side of one of her legs is numb and frequently sends shooting pains down her leg.

Baby Furniture!

We ordered a crib and dresser for the baby's room. We're told it should arrive in early December. Let's hope it's not on back order!

This is the crib. It's shown here in matte white, but we got it in "Moonlight", which is a distressed off-white.



The dresser we ordered is the one in the middle, but without the hutch. We're putting the changing table thing on top of it.

Had another Dr.'s appointment Wednesday morning. It was very long! It didn't help that the appointment was scheduled for 9:45am, but the office did not open until 10am. And that was after they originally told us to show up early at 9:30!

Anyhow, the reason for the lengthly appointment was to run a glucose test. Jessica had to drink a very sugary orange drink, wait for an hour, and then get blood drawn.

The doctor listened to the baby's heart and also measured Jessica's belly.

Happy October

Our doctor's appointment on Wednesday was the shortest appointment ever. They finally opened the Westchase office, so we walked there, went to the appointment, and walked home in less than an hour. It was much better than our previous appointments. Dr. said that no news is good news! She encouraged us to pre-register at the hospital online, so we did and we started filling out the birth certificate. A representative from the hospital will come to the room after the baby is born to complete the form and get our signatures. This is getting very offical!

Yesterday we went to Orlando to check out some more baby furniture stores, which we didn't find anything. We went to Gap Maternity, which I was able to find a few things to wear! (Thank you to Jackie and Ira for the Gap gift certificate for my birthday!) We also finished the night at Disney World. I don't think the baby liked a few of the rides! Ugh!

Today, we are resting and doing things around the house.

Only 3 more months and counting down...