The Story

So the last couple of days have been stressful for me. I haven't slept much. On Sunday I found out that I had been exposed to fifths disease over thanksgiving. Well, the only thing that I knew about it is that it was no big deal for anybody else.......unless you were pregnant. Great. We did some research and found out that it's only a problem in 5% of cases. Basically the baby dies of severe anemia. We all know that me and food have not had a very good relationship over the last 2 1/2 months, so I'm pretty sure I don't have any extra Iron to pass on. And we all know that the odds don't usually work well for us. (Who knows of another 14 mo, perfectly healthy, go to sleep and not wake up, in 25 minutes???) So of course I was freaking out. Most people told me not to worry, but how could I not? So I did. I worried. I had a blood test done on Monday to see if I had a previous immunity to it. (If there was a previous exposure there was nothing to worry about.) And then the next two nights I hardly slept, and when I did, I woke up with nightmares, some really crazy nightmares. Well I am happy to report that we got the results this morning and I had a previous immunity. YEAH!!! What a relief. I started to cry when the nurse told me. She seemed to understand. She put her arm around me and said "it's good news". And I just said thank you. Then they tried to find the heartbeat to reassure me that all was well. She couldn't find it. But that was okay too, because then Dr. Jones came in and did an ultrasound to find the heartbeat, so we got an extra picture of JJ. She was pretty quite in there. Such a change from Gavin (another reason it's a girl). JJ just sat there and let them ultrasound. After the Doctor poked around for awhile she moved a little bit. Rolled over. But not the somersaults that Gavin enjoyed doing in the womb. Looks like we MIGHT have a calmer child. Dang it. The only thing that I hope for is that she is a cuddle bug like Gavin was. I love cuddly babies. So here is the ultrasound. You can see the head (the large thing) and an arm and a leg. (the leg is the white spot opposite the head. And the arm is the white spot perpendicular to the head.) So every thing is good. YEAH!!!! Now maybe I'll sleep tonight. Hopefully all the crazy nightmares will stop.