Boring, not boring, and back to boring

So far my pregnancy has been very uneventful, boring even. Well today I had a doctors appointment and things almost got interesting. Well my pregnancy actually got eventful for about 3 hours. The doctor checked my cervix, no change blah blah blah boring boring boring. But then she was checking to make sure he was head down and she said it didn't quite feel right, so I needed to go have an ultrasound. Since the rest of my week is crazy we tried to get an appointment for today, well that was harder than it sounds because the phone and fax lines were down at the office so they couldn't fax surburban imagining my referral. Finally I told them I had a copy of my referral, I can bring it with, please get me in today. So they did. Our appointment was at 6:30, check in at 6:15. Of course we were early so we just waited, more boringness. We finally got called back, she slimed up my stomach, and the first thing we saw was that his head was indead down. Sigh of relief. For a few hours I thought I went through 8 months of boring pregnancy to then have the most unboring of all events happen, a breech baby, which means a C section. So back to the boringness. Which after today's little scare is fine with me.

Since we were there looking at our baby we got to see a lot of stuff again. His face doesn't look like a skeleton anymore and we confirmed that he is in fact a he. No doubts there. So now its just a waiting game. Our doctor doesn't let her patients go more than a week overdue, which I think is wrong, so if I am overdue I will try to push for two weeks past my due date- not that I want to go long, but I really don't want to be induced. But hopefully I won't go overdue anyways. Either way there will be a baby in 5 weeks! (or 6 if my debating skills are up to par)

The last month

Well I am approaching my last month of this pregnancy. It has gone pretty quickly so far but now I am just getting so anxious and excited to have this baby. I'm not super excited about the whole labor part but am getting very excited for everything that comes after that. I'm still getting bigger and more uncomfortable every day. I wish there wasn't so much snow on the ground so I could wear slip on shoes or flip flops without getting my shoes full of snow and soaking wet. Oh well, at least I am not overly warm. And as long as Josh is around I have a personal shoe helper.

I would really like to have this baby over spring break, which is week 38 of pregnancy so we'll see if that happens. I've gotten lots of advice for inducing labor but they only seem to work if you're already overdue so I doubt I will have any control of when I have this baby.

Here's another picture of my growing belly. The little guy still moves around quite a bit so I think he has plenty of room. I'm guessing that will be changing very soon as he puts on an ounce a day. I've already started feeling elbows and knees sticking out of my stomach. Its kind of weird but also kind of nice to feel the baby moving around. I can't wait until I can hold him in my arms!

pharm, phat phots, and phantastic anniversarys

Well today is our two year anniversary. And I'm stuck studying for a majorly huge pharmacology test. I have never felt so unprepared and completely stupid before a test. O well, if I fail I guess I can always go for the five year plan. I think we are going to celebrate tomorrow (our anniversary not the five year plan) after the test with a nice dinner. We bought ourselves a laser printer for our anniversary gift- the toner was more expensive than the printer!

There was a request for a picture of my growing belly. This was at week 30. I'll be 32 weeks tomorrow and I don't think I've gotten much bigger since week 30. In another couple of weeks I will post another picture. As you can see though no stretch marks. However, there are still two long months where anything can happen.


Well loading the picture took so incredibly long that it is now time to get back to the studying. Only a couple more hours and then I can finally go to bed.

Wednesdays

So Wednesday nights are really boring because Josh has class all evening. Basically I get home from class around the time that he has to leave. Well most Wednesdays we'll have about an hour for dinner but tonight he had to go to class early so I really didn't get to see him. Then I have to pick him up from school and when he is teaching the classroom at work (which is 99% of the time, it just happens to be the other 1% tonight) he comes home, changes, and leaves. So On Wednesdays I barely get to see my husband. Its kind of lonely around here without him.

Which is why I have time to post these beautiful pictures of Jephtha's fungus that he grew in his very own oral cavity. My oral pathology professor culutured out the fungus and basically we saw both straight ones and circle ones. The circle ones (or spores) basically mean that it is a VERY active form. So everyone be proud of Jeph, he's a great host for growing fungus.

But actually he was only great at growing it because he was soooo very sick and was on some pretty strong antibiotics that killed all of the normal flora in his mouth allowing the fungus to take over. O the wonderful things we have lectures about in dental school....

So enjoy the pictures!

Jeph meets the Twins

Today Jeph got to meet a couple of Twins players. He almost missed them though because of a stupid CT scan. Anyways here's some pictures but I'm sure Jeph would love to tell his brothers and sisters about it so call him in the hospital to hear more!

Radiograph Thursday and Injection Friday

On Thursday I took my first full mouth set of radiographs. We did it on a skull not a real person but it was still pretty fun. It was actually very difficult and it will only get more difficult since a skull doesn't have lips or a tongue and you can see through the back of the head to make sure everything is lined up. But I'll get a few more practice runs before I have to take any on a real person. However, we had one day to practice local anesthesia and now the next time we perform an injection will be a real patient. Which in my case is quite unfortunate...

So we had to partner up with a classmate, well since I'm pregnant I can't recieve local anesthesia (lucky me!) however I still had to practice the technique on someone. My inferior alveolar nerve block (numbing half of the lower jaw) went very well. My infiltrative injection (numbing one tooth at a time) also went very well. I then had the instructor come show me how to do a posterior superior alveolar nerve block (numbing half of the upper jaw). With all the other ones he just pointed to where to stick the needle and I went from there. For some reason with the PSA he actually gave the injection, distributing some anesthesia and then had me do it. Well I did it and it went fine, until we started cleaning up our cubicle. All of the sudden my partner said hmmm my face feels a little funny and our instructor was noticing some swelling. Well very quickly after that my partner got this huge bump on his cheek. My instructor said it was a hematoma (basically a bruise) and since the blood has no where to go it pushes the cheek out. Well supposedly these things last 2-3 weeks! Oops... It really wasn't my fault, and it happens to dentists all the time. What happens is that the place where you need to inject is a crazy network of arteries and veins and if you happen to tear through a couple or puncture one it might just bleed enough to cause a hematoma. So I did it (maybe, since my instructor gave the injection first its a 50/50 chance that it was me) but it wasn't my fault exactly, these things just happen.

So if you ever need work done on your upper teeth make sure that you don't have a wedding or other major event in the next couple of weeks, just in case.

School AND a Baby?!?! Gasp!

Well my final semester of classes has started. After this semester I will mainly be in clinic working on real patients! A little scary, I know. Next week I get to give my first local anesthetic injected on a fellow classmate. But because I'm pregnant I don't have to be anyone's patient! I picked the best semester to be pregnant. Or not... Yesterday at my doctors appointment my doctor basically told Josh and me that we were so foolish for thinking we could have this baby and be in school. She absolutely could not believe that I wasn't going to take more than a week off from classes. I told her that I had to finish the semester. I know it will be hard but I can do it and now I am even more motivated just to prove her wrong. Maybe she was remember medical school and her residency and how she worked 80 hour weeks, or maybe she was just having a bad day and it her concern came out as criticism- I don't know. Josh and I will do just fine we have such supportive family and friends and we both want this baby so much that we are willing to work very hard to make that happen (besides we can't really give it back now can we?) And now we just have more motivation- to prove our doctor and anyone else who doesn't think we can do this wrong.

This last semester is going to go by so fast, it seems like every week there is something going on with family or friends, tests, or doctors appointments, I won't have time to sit around and think about how "foolish" we were for wanting a baby now. And before we know it there will be a baby and everything will be just fine.