Friday, June 02, 2006

The longest minute

Gene and I toured the birthing facility and had our second baby appointment. Everything went smoothly except for being told that I'm not gaining/eating enough and I need to eat at least every 2-3 hours. That is, it went smoothly until they checked for the heartbeat. I'll spare you the suspense and cut to the end of the story where they find a nice healthy baby heartbeat, but that was the longest minute of my life. It turns out that they baby is higher, and therefore bigger than they'd expect at this stage. All good news, but a very very long minute in the meantime. Apparently not getting enough building blocks isn't really a problem for the baby as much as it is for me. I guess the baby gets it one way or another, which is a tremendous relief.

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