Was That An April Fool’s Joke? (Week 18)

As of lately, Brad and I feel like our life has turned into a sitcom. We check around often to see if there are camera’s catching our reactions to things...but turns out, no. Okay, so maybe I’m exaggerating a little :) Ever since Friday, it seems that just laughing at some of our situations is the best way to not get overwhelmed with it all! I won’t go into every detail that keeps us laughing, rather than crying or getting frustrated, but the icing on the cake came during our third doctor appointment on Monday.

Brad and I are getting the routine down for each appointment. We had more questions this time for our doctor and I’m sure as the time progresses we’ll have even more. Towards the end of our appointment, our doctor checks our chart and looks closely at our due date. We hear her mutter to herself, “Oh, you guys are due September 5th”. Okay, we don’t expect our doctor who has many patients to remember every detail of our situation. We confirm that yes indeed, we are due on September 5th. She then replies with “Oh, did I tell you guys I’ll be on my vacation travelling in Russia during that time!?” Brad’s response was “Yeah!” and my response was “No!” Did my pregnancy brain forget that our doctor would be on vacation during our due date?!!? I look at Brad puzzled, he looks at me and then goes “Uh...no wait, we didn’t know that!”

She confirms that she’ll be leaving the day we are due to head off to Russia! But not to worry, because I could be early and she’ll be here to deliver or one of the other three doctors will be available when she is gone. As Brad and I walk away, we replay the conversation again and can’t stop laughing. Of course, OUR doctor, the one we researched for months for, the one we really like, decides to take her Russian adventure when we are due! Dr. Murray recommended that we alternate our appointments with the other doctors to get to know them. So we take the advice and plan out the remainder of our appointments for our entire pregnancy. Our last appointment to schedule, falls on our due date, September 5th, which naturally, as the receptionist so kindly told us, they are closed since it’s Labor Day. I don’t think she liked us much after that, because we just burst into laughter and muttered under our breath, “Of course...”

But in all seriousness, we feel pretty confident with the other three doctors we’ll get to know. We did go home and read all their bio’s that night :)

Baby Update:
We are at 18 weeks! Little Nugget is the size of a Sweet Potato (aw!). Baby has become amazingly mobile, passing the hours yawning, hiccupping, rolling, twisting, kicking, punching, sucking and swallowing…of course, I haven’t felt any of that quite yet! We can’t wait for that to happen!

Week 18

Just because this pretty much sums up our week- I can't stop laughing to take a picture!