Since I have been preggers, I have been feeling great, it's been an easy pregnancy overall, so much that I was thinking "this is a breeze" and feeling lucky that I have had no weird things going on. Okay, well in the last month, things have shifted and today was my latest meltdown. Throughout the the last few months I have felt so much movement, the baby has been all over the place and kicking me(often). This weekend we were in Ohio and Sunday I felt nothing, no kicks, no movements...nothing. I ate a ton of sugar and 2 large glasses of OJ(speed for babies) and NOTHING. So, today, Monday, when I didn't feel much of anything I called the Doctor. They called me back and said to come in "immediately" I drove downtown thinking the worst, called Kevin and he was going to leave work to meet me. They brought me in, hooked me up to some machine that printed out the heartbeat and movements. The nurse basically hooked me up, let it start and said "OH, well...I'll be right back". She promptly left the room without saying a word. How freaky is that?! So, I am crying in the room by myself. Kevin walks in and I start crying more. He sees the monitor and hears the heartbeat, says "that is good right?" and I respond, "Yes, I think but she ran out without telling me anything", maybe somethings wrong? So, she finally comes back and sees I am upset and says "oh, are you crying b/c you are happy things are fine?" I say "...um yah, I guess so, thanks for telling me this 10 minutes ago!" So...things are fine, false alarm. They said it may have been because I was out of my normal routine and/or dehydrated, but things were perfectly fine. AND, wouldn't you guess as I was laying there hooked up, she kicked me about 100 times...nice! They didn't' make me feel crazy or neurotic so I was thankful(as I felt both) So, I gathered myself and headed to the lobby again to wait for the Doc to come talk to me. While thereI met this very nice lady who was pregnant with her SIXTH child. She started talking to me and I started crying...AGAIN. So embarrassing, those pregnancy hormones are raging. She told me she made many trips for "false alarms" throughout her 5 previous pregnancies and that I am completely normal. Yah, I didn't feel "normal" as I sobbed to this stranger but it was nice to hear.
I should also add, everything I touch falls to the ground(and bending over ain't the easiest right now). Mainly I am breaking things, here is a broken list (so far)
1. my (large) planner at my customer's office -all my business cards went flying
2. 1 glass and 1 coffee cup at Kevin's parents
3. wine glass, one of my favorite stemless
4. whole bottle of red wine--this was the worst, all over the kitchen!
*I'll be sure to keep the tag running, we have about 6 more weeks
