No photo shoot - 7/23/2007

Sorry about the delay in posting this but here is an update from our last appointment on the 23rd of July.

First Sarah and I decided to get my blood drawn before her appointment at 11:15. The blood work on me was set to be done at a St. Johns Urgent Care center off of Highway K. Not paying any attention we pulled into the Barnes Urgent Care center, and when I told the receptionist I was there for blood work she looked at me and said "we don't do that here" she then looked at the paperwork I had with me and said I needed to go about 2 miles further down highway K. Eventually we ended up in the correct location and after waiting about 30 minutes I got my blood work done. The nurse asked me if I had ever had my blood drawn before and all I could do was laugh, and showed her my battle scares.. :) Any who we should have the results back in 2-3 weeks.

After that we had about 25 minutes to spare until Sarah's appointment at St. Joes West, so we went straight there, hit the cafeteria which must have just closed because all they had were drinks and snack foods but she was getting hungry and trust me you don't want to leave a pregnant lady hungry very long.

Finally we got in to see the doctor. She is the same one that delivered my sisters last child. the other 2 appointments we had were with other doctors. This is by design so you can pick the one you feel most comfortable with and in the event your doctor is not available once the baby decides to show up then at least your familiar with the others.

Sarah has been having some pretty severe morning sickness which seems to be caused by her prenatal vitamins so Dr. Sullivan decided to take Sarah off of them and put her on Flintstone vitamins, Sarah's been looking for a reason to take Flintstone vitamins for like 15 years so she was very happy about this. She will go back on her regular prenatal vitamins when she gets into the second tri-mester on 8/11/2007. Aside from that they tried to listen for the heartbeat but Sarah's was too overpowering and at only 10.5 weeks it can be difficult to hear but the doctor did not seem concerned. Also Sarah lost 25 pounds since her last visit but once again Dr. Sullivan was not concerned, this was probably due to Sarah no longer drinking soda or being able to keep anything down due to the morning sickness. We will just keep an eye on that going forward.

Dr. Sullivan asked me about my family history and was very interested in my OI. She also asked after the appointment was over if she could work with us going forward since she knows the entire situation, she was very interested in seeing us through the end of the pregnancy. Which to me is great that someone is willing to take on our situation as eagerly as she was. But ultimately Sarah will make that decision since she has to feel the most comfortable with the Doctor. Our next appointment is August 20th 2007, She will be a little over 14 weeks which is when they will probably do the Amniocentesis on her/baby at that time also. Then a few weeks later we will know allot about our baby, including the sex, and since they are looking at the baby's DNA/Genes it's never wrong.

After the appointment we went with Sarah's parents to the Science Center, the IHOP for dinner. After that we went to Burlington Coat Factory at the Mills. Sarah fell in love with a little girls crib set. It combined Sarah's two favorite things, Butterflies and purple.. So as you can image she's now hoping for a girl. :) BTW the pictures should be visible on the left side of the screen in the box titled "Flickr".