Baby Love

Here is the first picture of my little passenger! Last week I said it would look like a gummy bear, but now I'm thinking more along the lines of cocktail shrimp. I was pretty close on my due date estimation...this little sprout is set to make his/her appearance on the 22nd of October. Man, I never thought a little white blob could be so adorable! And the itsy bitsy heart was beating...it was so surreal. It was like "wow! There is something in there after all!"

On another note...I wish to talk a little about this thing called "pregnancy brain." I've now become fully versed in the realities of pregnancy folklore--the queasiness is no joke, the crazy awful smells are no joke. Now I wish to attest to the truth of pregnancy brain. My appointment was on Monday, and I was supposed to meet Keaton at the clinic. I got there first, and called him and gave him directions. I said "when you get off the freeway, take a LEFT. A LEFT." So when he didn't show up within a few minutes, I called him back and said "Whoops! A RIGHT. You should have taken a RIGHT." He was already pretty far in the wrong direction.

When he did get there we went inside the building and I was so confused...my doctors name wasn't on the directory list. We even went to the room that was supposed to be hers and it was something completely different. Luckily I had the phone number in my phone, and when I called I found out we were in the completely wrong building! (The right one was across the parking lot.) We did make it to the right place on time, but when we finally got put in the room, the nurse directed me to undress from the waist down. As soon as she left I started taking off my shirt and Keaton was like "What are you doing?!? She said waist down!" I said "oh! I thought she said waist up!" He just shook his head and said "Everything this appointment is about happens below the waist!!" I'm so glad I brought my hubby with me! I would have been so embarrassed to have been sitting there in all my waist-up glory when the doctor came in and told me I got it wrong. I would have had to switch doctors!

On the way home I told Keaton that I was so glad to have seen the baby and have proof that I really was pregnant and all this wasn't just some trick of my brain. He said "You better be pregnant or how do you explain the last two months of my life? My wife has gone CRAZY!"

Pregnancy brain is real. I used to have much more cognitive function. I just don't know anymore where I put it!