February 15th 2008

This appointment we really didn’t wait long, it was like “Kristy Ray, Come On Down!” right as we entered through the doors. So Kristy took her brown bag and went and did her duty and then she came out and we went straight to the scale for the “weigh in”.

After the “weigh in”, we went to the room which was very close to the scale and Kristy had her blood pressure taken while I struggled with Carter on my lap as at sat in the chair next to the door.

Carter was upset because he thought that we were there for him and the doctor’s office isn’t his favorite place to go because he’s always getting shots. He was basically freaking out. We got him calmed down a bit by giving him a snack, a granola bar and then we brought out the new weapon in the war on Toddler entertainment, the iphone loaded with his favorite movie (this week) “Cars”.

When Joy came in the room he lost interest in the movie and wanted to see what she was doing. She gave a listen on the Doppler and then did the first Fundal Height Measurement of this pregnancy for us and Kristy was measuring small, just like with Carter. So Joy said we would be having another ultrasound (Yessss! Said like Napoleon Dynamite) just to make sure our due date was still April 10th – 12th.

Kristy asked if Joy could feel the belly and see if she could tell what position the baby was in, but Joy said that it was tough for her to feel and so she really didn’t know. We got the latest Kaiser “This is your pregnancy handout” and then Joy said to schedule out the rest of our appointments if we could along with the Ultrasound for the due date verification.

And that’s it, we were done. It was 8, maybe 9 minutes total from when we entered the room until when it was time to go and make the appointments. Then we went and schedule with the nurse, not Toni this time, a new nurse.
She seemed a little more rigid and less flexible when it came to schedule, so instead of fitting us in on Fridays when I’m off work, we will be going on Wednesdays and I’ll be ducking out of the office for a bit. But everything is scheduled out, even the later weeks which may not be needed, based on history and Carter’s 10 day early arrival last time.