The yoga instructor redeemed herself in a big way (mostly). When she walked in the door she said,"JDE, you've been on my mind all week. I was afraid that u/s discussion might have...pissed you off." I responded that it had been a long week and blah blah, surely she knows u/s is not radiation, there was this article in the Lancet recently, blah blah...she was apologetic and reasonable. Only hitch was that when I suggested correcting the u/s info to the whole class she said, "Yeah, the thing is my boss is coming to sit in on the class today - first time in 8 years of teaching here that she has come to a class..." So it was clear that the instructor wasn't feeling like bringing that issue up was going to be a good idea that day. Fortunately her boss was about 10 minutes late to the class so she did actually go ahead and cleanup the u/s mess.
One thing that is still in my craw, though, is that the women who started the discussion about u/s (the one who announced she was having a girl and another who quietly mentioned she had agreed to an amnio - I may have been the only one to hear her) never came back to the class. I didn't put together until the other day that maybe one (or both) of them complained and maybe that's why the boss came to the class. Who knows. I don't think I'll be going back, though. It's time to sign up for another 6-week session but we have baby classes the next two Saturdays, then will be in Las Vegas the following Saturday and would have to miss another one in March when we go back for the shower my husband's family wants to give for us. Plus, as much as I like the yoga, if the weather ever turns nice again, my husband and I would really like to get out on the water and do a little fishing before the critter arrives.
I have been so quiet on here for the last two weeks because of my parents' surgeries, both of which went well, but they can now neither one drive or even fetch the morning paper, so I have been heading down to their house every day with errands, mail, groceries, cooking, cleaning, etc. My sister is responsible for them this weekend, thank goodness, cuz I'm on duty again next week...I think I have 5 doctor appointments to take them to in the next 10 days.
The cats finally seem to be recovering. The 22 year-old has had rough time of it, mostly because, as it turns out - she has heartworm. The vet said its almost unheard of in cats. We thought she was going to die on us last weekend, but she really appears to have turned the corner and is much, much better.
And finally...a Geronimo update. All seems well. I wasn't sure, but it turns out I have been having Braxton-Hicks activity like crazy for several weeks. Not painful but, at times, uncomfortable and generally weird. Dr P checked me and said my cervix is fine so the contractions aren't having any negative effects. I am feeling him move now, but have not done the fetal movement counting yet for a few reasons: 1) the guidelines from my docs office are for 28 weeks and up and I'm just at 28 weeks starting today, 2) I truly believe that Geronimo and I would 'fail' the kick count thing if I did it today - I don't think I've ever felt him move 6 times in an hour, 3) I also truly believe that everything is just fine and I don't need to freak myself out about movement right now. I feel him move, its just not 'organized' and I am okay with that. My husband is out of town today and tomorrow and we have one of our baby classes* all day Saturday so we have agreed that we will start charting the fetal movement count stuff on Sunday. That should give us 8 days of data to take to our doctor appointment next Monday.
* Thanks to the commenter on my last post (Mary?) who mentioned that those of us with losses might view the childbirth classes a little differently than most. I wouldn't have thought of that and I'm glad I can go in prepared for that now...not defensive, just prepared. Only thing I had thought about in that vein was I'm sure they're going to ask if this is everyone's first baby and I didn't want to freak the whole class out by saying we'd had a stillbirth at 20 weeks, but probably I will mention it (if it comes up) because that birth experience will inform this one for us.
Off to the infirmary my parents' for the day.
Hope your parents improve each day! It's so so exhausting to take care of sick parents. Epsecially when 28 weeks pregnant! I'll be thinking of you. Glad for the good Geronimo news! I only did kick counts in the beginning, then stopped pretty soon, cause it would stress me out. Lily was really deep (I couldn't always get a heartbeat with the Doppler even), so after I had a sense of when she was active and when she wasn't, generally, I stopped cause I didn't need to stress about how much she was moving......
Glad to give you a heads up on the childbirth class. You will probably remember quite a bit abt your experience with Adam during the class, so be prepared for some grief kick-back too. I was surprised how vivid my memories were...but then they moved on to other things and I was able to focus on the class. FYI, they probably won't ask abt it being your first child cause only first time parents take the class.
I also debated, would I bring it up or wouldn't I. In the end, I told the instructor about Naomi in the beginning and then there wasn't a time where it really came up in the group. Best of luck with it.
Posted by: Mary | February 09, 2007 at 06:40 AM
About kick counts - I'm a NICU nurse and paranoid about everything when I'm preggo. When I was 32 weeks pregnant with my first, I went to a NICU training class that talked about every conceivable abnormality that a baby could have, complete with grotesque pictures. They mentioned the kick count and I thought,"There's no way Spud moves that much. OMG!" I spent the next hour, completely still, zoning out the instructor, while I focused on her moving. It turns out, that when I focused and counted EVERY movement, not just whopper kicks, she moved 48x in an hour!
Posted by: melanie | February 13, 2007 at 02:25 PM