June 28th, 2008

We went into the hospital today for another BPP at 9am. It was quiet probably because it was a Saturday morning but they got us right in and set up on monitors. The attending doctor was the chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine who did the test himself (Dr. Barth). He is a very tall, yet quiet man who told us all about our other doctors. Our main doctor is a women who is about 36 years old, Dr. Wylie. We found out last night through Google that she went to Princeton as an undergrad, went on to Columbia then got her medical degree at Harvard. Needless to say, we feel she is well qualified to be taking care of us. The other doctor that we see regularly is Dr. Katz. He is a fellow over at MGH but moonlights as a regular OBGYN at Newton-Wellesley. He has been the one to relay most of the info to us throughout all of this and tries to meet with us as much as possible so we feel we get consistent information. He has been very up front with his philosophy of being overly cautious but we appreciate that as it tends to reassure us rather than leaving us constantly wondering. Josh and I can detect Dr. Katz has a slight accent and had been debating where he was from. We worked up the nerve today to ask Dr. Barth and he confirmed we were both actually correct. He is Israeli (my guess) but his family is from Russia (Josh's guess). We also learned Dr. Katz attained a degree in Nuclear Physics from MIT prior to deciding to become a doctor. Again, not a bad person to have on our side.


Our little monkey cooperated today and got himself an 8 out of 8 within five minutes of testing so we were cleared to not come back again until Monday. Same orders as every day though, if we don't feel him kick as often as usual, we are to call/come in immediately.


The rest of the day today was filled with little errands getting boxes for packing and then packing up the kitchen with dads help. Josh also got another coat of paint on the dresser that is intended to be the baby's so at least we have one more thing taken care of before he comes.


We also picked up books on Premature babies per the NICU doctors suggestion (Dr. Cronin) and have started reading that to prepare ourselves. Of course, we have to ask Dr. Barth our favorite question...when is the baby going to come? He said we are hoping for 30-32 weeks if we can make it that long. Decipher as you will but seems we are still in the range of less than a month until arrival.

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