today was my 32 week appointment and before meeting with our dr. we had yet another ultrasound to check my placenta previa. it went well - the previa is gone and the placenta is where it should be. so that's great news. hayes weighs 4 pounds 9 ounces which puts her in the 51st% so she's about average for her gestational age. she yawned and stuck her tongue out at us.....see, i'm telling you, this one is going to be my crazy child. heehee=)
sarah kate is out of school now so we decided to just take her with us to this appointment so that she could see baby hayes. we talked about it alot yesterday and today.
sk: "will we get to hold baby hayes at the doctor??" me: "no, we are going to see a picture of her on a t.v. screen. she will stay in mommy's belly and will be here right after your birthday and then you can hold her." sk: "we are going to the doctor so that the doctor can put a diaper on baby hayes probably." me: "baby hayes will not need a diaper until she is here after you turn 3." and so forth....i just kept reminding her that we were only going to see pictures of hayes. she got it, and she really enjoyed her time in the ultrasound room. she is obsessed with the "heartbeat" function on hayes's new sound machine in her nursery. she loves to go in there and turn it on "heartbeat" mode and mimic it. so it was a real thrill when the ultrasound tech found hayes's heartbeat and turned it up real loud. but the icing on the cake was at the end after ms. karen had gotten all the measurements and info she was going to get.....she put a purple glove on sk, put her in the chair and let her help maneuver the wand on my tummy and take pics. then she let her find hayes's heartbeat and taught her the buttons to push to turn the heartbeat sound on and off.
excuse the big white baby bump and meet the newest ultrasound tech at east cooper women's center:
think she has a future in this ultrasound business! ha!
side note about the future tech's attire:
she had on a play dress earlier today but before we went to the dr. she said, "i think it would be great if i wore a church dress to the doctor!" so i let her. she cried and cried this morning when i put a play dress on her because "it's not fancy enough, mommy!!!" good lord. help me. she gets over it, but it's becoming a nightmare. we aren't going to wear smocked dresses every darn day! we were going to target and whole foods for crying out loud. but i do love that she longs to be "fancy" all the time. she is my girly girl and i love her to pieces even when she's hysterical over my dress choices. i haven't even suggested shorts in a while because i'm just not wanting to deal with the huge tantrum that would follow that horrible suggestion. we like dresses, we even like mommy to wear dresses, and we like our dresses to be long and fancy. we like our toenails and fingernails to be painted "pinkish purple" and we can't wait to sit on santa's lap and ask for pink earrings. and our favorite color is pink. wowsa.
and just when we think we're all in the clear and are done with ultrasounds, we find out that at my next appointment (in 2 weeks) we'll be back in there again taking another peek at our little lady. seems that although my amniotic fluid level was in the "normal" range that it was on the low end of the normal range so my dr. wants to keep an eye on it. i'm actually glad that she airs on the side of caution and i'm not going to lie - we are enjoying all our sneak peeks at hayes. in the meantime, i am supposed to make sure i am always nice and hydrated, and i'm also supposed to be taking it easy. another great reason for me to blow up my raft as soon as i get down to the beach and float the week away.
the tech said that hayes was scrunched up in one of the quadrants that she needed to check so she wasn't able to even measure the fluid over there. fluid level in the other quadrants was great, so it's probably not even on the "low side of normal" but since she wasn't able to measure where hayes was then we'll take another peek. this little girl likes to have her picture taken!
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