Doctors and Doctors and Shopping

Another visit to the Dr.'s yesterday.  Everything is going fine after the amniocentesis, the aftermath was more trouble than the actual procedure.  The doc ordered Alison to take a couple days of bed rest, and I had to try to keep her off her feet.  You all know that my darling girlfriend is so willing to just sit back and let someone take care of her, that it was a breeze for me.  

Yesterday's appointment was just a followup for the amnio, we went in sat down for our 2:30 appt. and waited.  And waited.  I literally saw a half dozen women come in and leave while we sat there.  Me, being the patient and laid back half of the super duo, was starting to tap my foot at about 120 bpm, while Alison looked over with an exasperated expression at my inability to relax.  Then she looked in her wallet at the appointment card and realized our appointment wasn't until 3:20.  But, I am gaining enlightenment day by day, and instead of looking at it as having gotten there way to early, I think of it as hey, we got out of there early.

The appointment itself was fine.  The did a what I'm going to refer to as an audio sonogram, which means we could hear the baby's heartbeat, but didn't get any pictures.  One cool thing we did talk to the doc about was storing the baby's cord blood.  Turns out the stem cells in the unbilical cord blood (or something to that effect) can be stored and used to combat an increasing number of diseases our child could possibly face, including diabetes and leukemia.  So we're seriously considering it.  It isn't cheap, but it's cheaper than a high end entertainment system if you throw in surround sound and a couple gaming consoles, so we'll probably figure out how to do it at some point in the near future.

The other major development yesterday is that our current doctor is moving on to a new job at Baylor Medical Center, meaning we have to switch doctors.  Not too big a deal for me, and Alison doesn't seem to be bothered by it too much either.  Our current doctor has made her recommendations and it looks like we'll be seeing someone from her current practice.  We have trusted her judgement so far and we are pretty confident with here opinion.

Today we go in for another sonogram with the fetal care specialist.  The elevated protein counts have them being careful and starting in about two weeks we'll be going in for weekly sonograms to keep an eye on things until our precious snowflake arrives.

I'm starting to get really excited. While we were waiting in the lobby at the doc's there were a number of mom's who were on at least thier second, and watching those little buggers run around and be all cute and stuff, well, I just wanted mine now.

This weekend Alison and I will begin registering for stuff at various places.  Once again I've been told that this would be so much easier if we would just find out the sex so everybody would know what to buy, but I have to be honest, I'm really excited about the surprise factor, so...no.  Alison in her usually awesome way has been keeping her eye on cool stuff to keep me feeling like as cool a dad as I can feel like, while I'm juggling poop filled diapers, breastmilk pumps, and stuffed animals.  She's a pretty sweet partner to have in all this.

I'm also working off a lot of the stress at the gym.  So that's nice.