Friday, May 23, 2008

Why she is called "The Steamroller"

Yesterday I had another appointment with the high-risk-pregnancy ob/gyn (this was my second). The cool thing about going and seeing him is that he has this super-high powered machine that shows us exactly what the baby looks like and what she's doing. Since he's a high-risk doctor, he does a 120 point inspection to the baby. (Is it just me, or does it sound like we're buying a used car or something???)
There's one thing we've learned about our daughter...she does NOT like to be pushed. Even if it's for her own good. At night, when she's rolling around making it impossible for me to sleep, Sean likes to mess with her by putting his head on my tummy. She then replys by kicking him in the face. Stuff like that.
Anyway, so we're at the doctor's and he's using the wand and trying to check out the different vital points that he needs to and she gets upset. She kicks, and moves her hands in front of her face, and starts turning her head. To which, the doctor starts getting upset because he can't see what he needs to! It was pretty funny to watch a 25-week-old fetus get the better of a 50-something-year-old ob/gyn. I tried to tell him that we call her "The Steamroller" because she doesn't stop moving. He just started mumbling under his breath about not being able to check her cerebellum. Sean and I were so proud of our little brat. (We don't really think she's a brat, we just love her no-nonsense personality.)
Well, turns out that her kidneys are still dialated, so we get to go back and go through all this again in 5 weeks. But, it's super cool to see the 3-D pics of her. Sean says she has my nose and my round face. I say that she has his personality, so she seems to be a pretty good mixture of both. We did get some pictures of her:

Seriously, though, she was moving around so much that all of her pictures were blurry. You really can't see a thing. It was pretty sad. One day she'll look at her baby book and think we're strange for keeping these demented pictures of her while inside me.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sheesh Amy, get control of your child! :)

I hope next appointment she cooperates a little better because I want to see pictures of her.

Have you guys agreed on a name yet?

esther said...

She's already showing you little bits of her personality. It's amazing what these little people come with.

Bowman's Beach said...

she has your eyes!