October 21st 2005

This story begins with a new parking spot, in the parking lot right outside of Module E where we go for all of our prenatal appointments. I’ve been going to physical therapy for a back injury I sustained in early August and that is how I found out about this parking lot, the physical therapy module shares this parking lot with the prenatal module.

Kristy checked in with Collette the really loud receptionist. Collette is on the phone a lot too and this time I could actually hear “Paulette” the person she was talking to on the phone. So Collette and Paulette continued to chat away while Kristy went over to the basket and picked out just the right brown bag and went back to do her business in the restroom.

I had my “The Expectant Father” book with me, but I decided to look at the shutterbug magazine instead. Since I was way ahead in my book I thought this would be an okay time to look at some photo equipment.

Kristy came back and then they were ready for her. We went and weighed her in, 132 pounds. Then they took us to the room. Kristy was afraid she weighed too much and I tried to reassure her because she does have a small human growing inside her. Her blood pressure was 100/56 which is very good.

Jill came in and was her cheerful self, “Hi Honey!” how are you feeling. She said this would be a really simple appointment. We would take a listen to the baby’s heart, take a measurement and then schedule the next appointment and we were kind of out of sync with the ultrasounds so we decided to go a little longer in between this appointment and then next one so that we would be back on schedule. Jill busted out the Doppler and we heard the familiar whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, the baby’s heart rate was 136 beats per minute. Kristy measured 1/u or 1 finger above the umbilicus.

She also asked if Kristy had any questions and Kristy did ask what she recommended as far as breathing and classes and what not. Jill said that in her opinion the best things to work on are yoga and relaxation techniques. You can work on other stuff, but for a majority of folks yoga and relaxation help the most. That was it, about fifteen minutes and we were out of there.