Midwife and Pizza

By steve on December 16th, 2005

[this entry by Steve]
 
We had a visit with our midwife on Wednesday. Overall it went fine — nothing exciting to report. We met with Michelle this time (our previous two meetings were with her partner, Tracy). I like both of the midwives so far, and I’d be comfortable with either one at the birth.
 
The appointment itself was shorter than usual. We’re booked for an hour but this one only lasted about 40 minutes, and it felt like it was stretched at that. Kate did a glucose test to check for gestational diabetes — we’ll get the results in a week or so, I think. Zippy was apparently very active on the drive to the appointment but then “floated to the bottom of the pool” (Michelle’s words) when the exam came so Michelle couldn’t really figure out her orientation or anything. Kate’s been curious as to what part of Zippy is doing the kicking when Kate feels her. But apparently at this stage of the pregancy Zippy still has plenty of room to do somersaults so her orientation could change from day to day.
 
We listened to the heartrate as we do every appointment. It started around 120 and then suddenly jumped up to 160 as Zippy moved around. I guess navigating the womb is good exercise.
 
After the appointment we went across the street to the much-anticipated pizza place. Overall we rated it so-so — the crust was good (very thin) but Kate didn’t like the toppings and I found the overall construction lacked punch. If we do get pizza on Zippy’s birth day, it’ll probably just be Pagliacci. (Hey Kate… “Pagliacci” is a good name. Kind of hard to spell and pronounce though…).


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