I went to my first appointment today. Unfortunately, the person with whom I had set up the appointment was not a regular employee there and failed to note that this was my second pregnancy, so she just scheduled me fora consultation with the nurse. I had to take a second test–which was positive (yay!) and then listen to a lecture about what I could and could not eat, do, etc. Once I realized that it was the same old spiel I had heard the first time around, I told the nurse that it was old hat to me. The nurse then asked me 1,000 questions about my medical history, much of which she should have already known had she had my chart before her, but she forgot it. Very frustrating.

Afterwards, she sent me over to the lab to have some tests done. I had to give a second urine sample. It’s very difficult to pee on command, especially when you had already gone 20 minutes earlier. Bad planning. I also had some blood drawn. And that was it.

I’ll actually see the doctor on Monday.

Oh, yes, my due date is March 30 (which means I could have an April Fools baby–LOL!)

From “Gift from the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in
exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an
impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is
exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the
ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow
of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never
return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity;
when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth,
in fluidity–in freedom in the sense that the dancers are free,
barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.

“A Marriage” by Mark Twain

A marriage…
makes of two fractional lives a whole;
it gives to two purposeless lives a work,
and doubles the strength of each to perform it;
it gives to two questioning natures
a reason for living,
and something to live for;
it will give a new gladness to the sunshine,
a new fragrance to the flowers,
a new beauty to the earth,
and a new mystery to life.

It looks like starting a TTC journal would be pointless, since I’m already pregnant!!! I tested last night and the results were very clear I tried calculating my due date and thought it would be late April or early May, but then the calculator at Baby Center says the due date is March 29th. I’ll have to make an appointment with my doctor soon

Life is never really straightforward and easy, is it? I just got called about a potential job interview which I’m pretty excited about since it would me working in a bigger firm with greater responsibilities and even greater compensation…and while I’m excited beyond all reason about the baby, I’m not sure how I should put a good spin on the situation so I’m not rejected outright by any future employers. But I don’t really think it’s a good idea to remain completely silent during the interview and then pipe up with the big news a few days after I’ve been at the new job. Wouldn’t that just P.O. my new boss?