October monthly doctor visit...

This past Monday was my monthly doctor visit. As the doctor was listening to the baby's heartbeat with the doppler, he said, "the baby's heartbeat sounds good" and I replied with..."Yeah and the baby is kicking too"! Had a waited just a few more moments I probably would have figured out that the baby wasn't kicking but actually had the hiccups. :-) So cute.

I mentioned to the doctor how my muscles under my shoulder blades were painful lately and he indicated it might be because of any breast size increase...yeah...that's happened!!! Hubbie loves it by the way! But I really think it is work related and was a preexisting condition before I was preggers...but whatever! So when we left the doctor we were driving home and I turned to hubbie and the following conversation ensued:

me: So, you heard Dr. McG, right? He said the only way to alleviate the pain in my back was for you to massage my back EVERY day!
hubbie: No, I must have missed that conversation!!
me: Really, you were sitting right there when he said it.
hubbie: Nope, didn't hear anything like that...you and Dr. NcG must have had a little sidebar conversation cause I didn't catch that part.
me: hmmmmm... (shocked I couldn't convince him that part of the conversation actually took place when it really didn't and I was trying to make him believe it did!!! dang it!!!)

So in my world I'm kinda hoping for natural child birth BUT...I'm also realistic in thinking anything is possible (worst case scenario) and know that if an epidural is necessary so be it...or if a c-section is necessary so be it...whatever! I just know that there was no such thing as pain killers back in the day and if I can withstand kidney stone pain and my ruptured ectopic pregnancy last year...why not try natural? What's the worst that can happen...we wind up calling the anesthesiologist? So be it...whatever! Which brings me to my next point which was the conversation with the doctor about child birth classes. We've decided we'd take a Lamaze class, now I just have to enroll in one. We did find however some cool free baby classes. One is a breastfeeding class, another is a baby bootcamp 101 class (aimed at gear ing the parents for what to expect the first couple weeks after the baby comes home) and they also even offer a grandparents class but mom doesn't need that...she already has 6 grandchildren...she's practiced up enough and the other grandchildren have already dusted off her cobwebs so Li'l Foot should be good to go with grandma! But the classes are free, so why pass them up?

And that was basically the doctor's appointment in a nutshell. HEY...12 DAYS UNTIL HAWAII!!!! WOOHOO!!!