Doctor Visit and Sunday Shower

I just realized that I haven't done any sort of update since last Thursday's appointment. Oops. Sorry about that. Of course, the only way you'd know that there was an appointment is if you were religiously checking the "Quick Facts" box of the home page. But anyway, Leah was feeling kinda crummy at the time......She had endured several days of congestion and coughing--often waking up in the middle of the night and having a hard, dry cough for 5-10 minutes. Not fun.

All the routine checks were good.....blood pressure, weight, etc. As a matter of fact, Leah had lost 2 lbs since the last visit, making her over weight gain for the pregnancy like 2 or 3 lbs. In other words, if Nicholas was born today, Leah would most likely experience a net weight loss since becoming pregnant. This isn't really a concern, because in a perfect world, your weight gain should be inversely proportional to your starting weight (the more you weigh, the less you should gain). The funny thing has been that Leah has discovered that a few of her 'regular' clothing items fit better now because the weight is distributed a bit differently that it was when she had it on the last time.

The doc took care of the intensified congestion and funk with a couple of prescriptions. Of course, one was available in name brand only, leading me to strengthen my belief that doctors really are in a secret alliance with drug companies to get free pens, shirts, post-it pads, and maybe even luxury skybox tickets to the Super Bowl. Dr. B mentioned that she is going to do an ultrasound on the next visit, to do measurements and see how much our little boy weighs. I don't know if she could or will alter our due date at that time, or if it's just to fill in blanks on the chart. But I guess we'll know after next Thursday.

Sunday, we had our final baby shower, given by our sunday school class. The hostess, Heather, is also a labor and delivery nurse at Baptist, so there's an outside chance that she'll have a ringside seat to Nicholas's birth, and we won't have to endure some 70-year old nurse, wearing horned-rimmed glasses with a chain, and insisting that leg tourniquets are always used in childbirth, because that's the way they trained her after World Ward II. But on to the loot....Nicholas got some adorable stuff from Baby Gap, as well as plenty of tea, I mean, milk bottles, a bottle warmer, some diapers, and lots of other goodies for mommy and daddy to carry along in the diaper bag.

After a brief stop home, we were off to Target. We had a little over $200 in gift cards to spend, and wanted to get some things that we hadn't gotten but that we absolutely needed (which is why we waited until after the last shower to do so). Our main purchases were the Pack 'n Play, a humidifier, and a bouncy seat, and a few other odds and ends. There are still a few necessities left that we'll have to buy (e.g., changing table pad, carseat base), but the rest is stuff that he/we won't need until he's a few months old, and will most likely be put on a Christmas list.