A Busy Life...

Tomorrow I will have been here a week already. For the most part it seems to have gone fast, but for the first few days I think the drugs had me a little out of it, so those days just passed in a haze!

Yesterday was my first day alone during the day. I was a big girl and made it all by myself until the evening. I don't know how the day seemed busy, but it did. They wake me up at 7 for medication, then breakfast comes, then I am hooked up to the monitors for an hour, then its time to shower. I guess my pace is pretty slow because by the time I get done showering, it is lunchtime already and the day is half over! I had some visitors as well...some more fascinating than others! The doctors and nurses and dieticians came as always. I did also get a visit from the chaplain inviting me to a mothers support group on Tuesdays...we will see about that.

The most interesting/strange visit was from the music therapy lady...yes, you heard me right. She was a very sweet, very chipper lady who reminds me of a preschool music teacher (I think she said she actually was). She comes twice a week for music relaxation therapy...she plays music that the baby (not me) likes for 20 minutes 2 times a week. She is writing Lee a song...it will be 10-12 seconds long? I was trying to figure out a way to tell this sweet lady I wasn't much of a music therapy kind of girl when she told me that people respond to her in different ways. One of which is by falling asleep (which she finds a compliment)...it's my new plan.  Let her come back and as soon as she gets here I will "fall asleep" and we will all leave happy!  Hmm....

I have ultrasounds every Tuesday and Friday, so this morning was like a big outing to the ultrasound room down the hall. I got up early and put on my nicest nightgown because I have no pants (maybe I should work on that). I even put my contacts in.  The perinatalogist was a little disappointed because my amniotic fluid levels were much lower than in my last ultrasound last Friday, but he said it could be worse. Either way, it doesn't change the plan. He said even with no fluid, they will not induce labor yet unless LJ is showing signs of distress. He isn't right now; he is doing great. He had his foot in his mouth this morning.

Matt and I made a chain to tear a link off every day I am here to count down to our hopeful delivery day. I have 31 links left today. We will see if our math was right when the day comes! Matt also tracked down a wheelchair on Sunday, and they let us go sit outside for 30 minutes...I am missing the start of fall! We will do that more often! The food isn't too horrible most of the time...they give me a choice of meals each day...could be worse! They even let me have a Diet Coke each day! I haven't had a Diet Coke since I found out I was pregnant! The first time I saw it, I was beside myself! The nurses are all very nice, many about my age. And the cleaning ladies, lunch ladies, techs and other random women walking in and out of the room are great too. That's about all I have for today!