The flu, or something like it, has been going around the colony. Our students are dropping like flies. Sunday morning, it hit me. Brandon was gone, doing a church service out of town. So I, alone, sick, and pregnant was not a happy girl! After lots of throwing up, crying, and talking to my mom on the phone I got through the morning. It was a couple days of yuckiness though; quite the double whammy of fatigue with flu and normal 1st trimester tiredness. I was out of school for 3 days, but it was only a 3-day week, so I had 4 freebies to fully recover.
The good part of all this is we went to the doctor on Tuesday. I was dehydrated, so they hooked me up with some fluids - always helpful. And just before the appointment I noticed some bleeding when I went to the bathroom. Of course, a sick, emotional, pregnant lady doesn't handle that well! I was pretty scared, and just sure this sickness was messing with the baby - although Brandon and the dr kept assuring me it wasn't. But, to appease me the doc set us up with an early ultrasound at the hospital. It was rough sitting around the next three hours in waiting rooms - but it was just incredible to see that tiny baby inside! He/She was 4 cm small at the time, but already moving around and everything. We could watch the blood flow, see where the hands were going to grow out of the little flipper beginnings, and clearly tell head from tail. Pretty exciting stuff! I can't wait until our next one when she/he's much bigger and more obviously baby looking.
3 comments:
I already love your baby. He/She is beautiful.
Hello Little Niece or Nephew,
Auntie Lisa loves you already!
P.S. Do you guys watch "Lost"? I can't remember - anyway, we are obsessed with it. In the first season, when Claire has her baby, she doesn't name him right away because she didn't know which name she liked. Until she chose a name, Charlie called him "Turnip Head", because, naturally, his head looks like a turnip. Anyway, we'll have to think of a similarly fun name to call your baby until we know him/her! ;)
I don't know about 'turnip head', but Brandon did suggest "HAM", in the middle of a sermon about Noah a couple of weeks ago. He'd already given the same sermon a couple of times, and I guess his mind was wondering by this point.
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