Stress Test, Friends and Good Food :o)

Today we went to the hospital for a stress test. They don't actually try to stress the baby, they just monitor to make sure it is doing well. First, they did a routine ultrasound. The baby looked good. We got to see his little heart beating and see him taking practice breaths. The lab technician said that babies breathe the amniotic fluid until they are born and then the first breath flushes out the fluid and transitions the baby to be able to breathe air. This was interesting. After the ultrasound, they hooked me up to a heart monitor and a contraction monitor. The baby was kind of sleepy so she said she needed to wake him up. I thought she was going to shock me, but she used a vibrating thing on my stomach to wake up the baby. Sure enough it worked. His heart rate went up and he started kicking around a bit. Since he was being so active they only had to monitor for 20 minutes. She said that I had two contractions while on the monitor but I didn't feel them. After that we got the all clear and headed to Costco.

At Costco we were lucky enough to get the LAST chicken pot pie! We also got a pumpkin pie! YUM!! Once we got home we took the pups for a walk in the super nice cool overcast weather! Now we are just relaxing while the chicken pot pie cooks waiting for our friends Mark and Anali  who are coming over to visit with their little baby Luci. We met Mark and Anali in our pregnancy class. It's hard to believe that their baby is already 2 months old. Soon we will be saying, "wow I can't believe our baby is 2 months old". :) Time goes by so fast!