Practical Joker

I am 29 weeks today! About 11 weeks to go and we still have so much to do. I think limiting my blog time and facebook time helped me be a lot more productive this week! Not reading all of the updates on your blogs was very hard, though! I think about you ladies everyday!

I had an appointment on Wednesday morning and Ponyo is doing well. Her heart rate was 163.

TMI warning...

On Thursday night Ponyo was a kicking fool. Starting at about 10:30pm it seemed that I started leaking... something. I convinced myself that Ponyo's enthusiastic movements were just wreaking havoc on my bladder and I was very slowly and unpleasantly leaking urine. The next morning it was still going on. I went to work Friday and taught my morning classes and then did recess duty. On my lunch break I called the clinic hoping they would say, "No worries! Sounds like you are just peeing on yourself!" Well, the nurse sort of freaked out (and freaked me out) when she said, "You need to come in right away. If you have a ruptured membrane you need to be hospitalized today." She transferred me to the appointment line and they got me an appointment at a clinic in another city (my clinic was booked for the day and my doctor was out of town).

I called my husband and let him know what was happening. I told him it was probably nothing so he didn't need to try to come to the appointment and that I would call him as soon as I knew more. I stopped in at the school office to let them know I needed to use half of a sick day and would cancel my only afternoon class. The office staff (who are truly wonderful) looked very concerned and asked what was going on. I started to cry as I told them and they started saying things like, "You are so far along, things will be fine! Even if she is born today!" Then I REALLY lost it! I can't have this baby today, I thought, She is much too small and our home isn't ready. My classroom isn't ready. We didn't even get to take the classes we are registered for.

I drove to the clinic and called my Mom on the way as she lives about 10 minutes from the clinic I was going to. She invited me to come over after the appointment and assured me everything would be okay! At the appointment the doctor watched my cervix for a little while (very uncomfortable!) to see if there was any pooling of fluid. Thankfully, she couldn't see any and my cervix was closed. They also did a ferning test (if the fluid swabbed from the cervix ferns, then they can tell there is amniotic fluid present) and it came back negative. When the doctor came to tell me the good news she was laughing and said, "Your baby is just kicking your bladder!" Thankfully she has stopped (for now, anyway) so I haven't experienced that unpleasant feeling since yesterday. Mostly, we are just glad that our little stinker is safe and healthy! Seems like we have a practical joker on our hands already!

(29 week photo posted under the pregnancy tab)