Random ramblings

I'm still here! It's 36 weeks today. There's been several days in the past week in which I was sure I would be meeting out son but luckily he's stayed put. I'm still contracting away - sometimes every 4-5 minutes for several hours on end. In my antepartum testing, my contractions are getting stronger - I now watch the toco monitor to see how high they get. I hit a new high on Tuesday of 80. The antepartum nurse was impressed and she's convinced I won't make it to my scheduled c-section date. I have an OB appointment tomorrow so we should find out how my cervix is holding up to all the contractions.

In other news the pipsqueaks (aka the twins) are still alive. We heard them last night with the doppler and we'll get a chance to see them on Friday at R's nuchal u/s.

Since my last blog a week ago I've written so many blogs in my head but unfortunately that hasn't translated into actually blogging. So instead I thought I would share some of the random thoughts and ongoings of the past week.

• That creepy dad I blogged about came in for an appointment today ( actually I squeezed his daughter in to my already full schedule). He was somewhat better behaved today but he still made some comments. He said my stomach was tight. I always thought tight was a good thing but then he followed it up by asking if I was doing sit ups b/c it's important. Hello, I can't even engage my abdominal muscles to sit up in bed, does he really think I'm doing crunches at night? When I said no, he then asked if I was exercising daily (and not in that wow you look great kind of way but rather the "you don't want to be fat after you give birth kind of way"). I said no and changed the subject.
  
• Pregnancy has taken my wife from having an amazing sense of smell to now having a freakish sense of smell. Seriously she's at blood hound level. I should offer her services up to the local police department.
• Apparently nausea makes one not be able to do anything (even though I managed to work full time while puking 4-5 times per day) and pregnancy has made me lose my sympathy. If R is nauseous she's only able to lay in bed - she can't do school work or house work for that matter and I become totally not nice. I think we're both working on this, well I'm trying to be nicer but it's hard. Gotta love the 1st and 3rd trimester combo.
  
• Straight girls really love baby showers and shopping for babies. I don't think this is a common trait among lesbians. However straight women are genuinely excited about buying baby stuff and watching a pregnant woman open gifts. It's something I never expected. I had a baby shower at work this week. It was arranged by my office staff and they kind of forgot to tell me about it. I found out about it the day before by accident ...oops. My staff and colleagues were super generous which is not something that I'm totally comfortable with. Especially for my MA's to be getting me so many things when I make so much more than they do and I know most of them have large families and some are single moms. However, they all kept saying how much fun they had shopping for the gifts and how much they love to buy baby stuff. Must be a straight girl thing, especially b/c my wife absolutely hates BRU and we're having 3 kids.