Friday before the WVU Semester begins

Every year Morgantown enjoys a brief respite that reminds people what it is like to live in a normal town without a huge university. Sadly, each year that respite comes to an abrupt end on a Friday in late August. Today is that day.

A town as small as this one should not be so difficult to drive in. In June you can get from one side of town to the other in 5 minutes. Around August 20th that becomes 20 minutes and parking vanishes.

Oh well. There are a lot of things that make this town nice and a lot of that revolves around the university, so generally overlooking the inconveniences of traffic and parking during the school year just has to be done. You’d think they’d try a bit harder to make these issues less of a problem though. I mean the university has been here since 1867 or so.

Anyway.

Weekly Dr. appt. for the baby this morning. I’m 36 weeks and measuring 38 cm (which is about 2 cm over for the week I am at. I guess if it is over 3 they get concerned, but as is it’s ok.

I had a new Dr. today – which was kind of weird. I expected it to be a little, but it was odd that they kept asking me things that I’ve gone over with the other 2 Drs. I normally see. He (and another Dr. I had not met before were asking questions like whether or not I had gone to counseling for the gestational diabetes and if I was following the recommended diet. Well…it should say that I went to counseling in my file and I am pretty sure they can note what I am eating since I write it down every day. I was just kind of annoyed by that. If they had questions about what I was eating, why didn’t they just tell me what they didn’t understand or what wasn’t clear from my log? My blood sugar numbers have been quite good overall and the baby is going to be a larger kid, but not outrageously big. Steve and I have expected the kid to be large anyway…we both were and our siblings were as well.

Then I had a NST (Non-stress test). They hooked me up to a machine to test the baby’s heart rate and movement. This makes sure the placenta is still doing its job – a concern with GD ’cause sometimes it can just stop before the baby is ready to come out. The interesting thing about this test is that the baby has to be moving at some point during the test, but sometimes the kid is sleeping and not moving at all. Well, this was the case this morning and the lady giving the test said we could use this buzzer/vibrator thing to wake her up. Seemed innocent enough. She put it on my hand first, so I could feel it. Not a big deal. When she put it on my stomach….BAM! The baby jumped more that I have ever felt her jump. She must have really been startled! It was kind of funny. I told Steve I need to get one for him so I can make sure he gets up some mornings.

So next week I have another appt. and with a different doc. It is good to meet them all, but it is kind of weird to meet new docs this late in the game.

That’s it for now. Hopefully I will be able to post more soon.