First Hospital Visit

We had a good, but rather short and uneventful trip to the hospital yesterday. It was for a routine check-up. I will go there now for the rest of my appointments. The fetal monitoring went really well. I was able to sit up more for it, which was great, because at my regular doctors office they often had me lay down pretty flat and that was starting to make me feel sick. The heartbeat was normal. We were able to see one mild contraction on the strip. That was neat! I've been having a couple/few irregular ones during the daytime now. The exam went well- no changes noted. We won't do the next ultrasound until next week and that was disappointing:) I've grown accustomed to seeing him each week! Maybe we'll see that he's head down next week. Otherwise, everything is going along well. My BP was normal and so was my urine test. Thanks for your prayers and keep them coming!

Please also pray for a friend of mine, here, who will be having her baby by c-section tomorrow. I can't wait to meet him and to hear her stories. She's delivering at the same hospital as we will deliver.

On a fun note- we had our first snow last night. It was so much fun to see. It was too warm to stick to anything, really, except some cars and bushes, but it was pretty to see. Maybe it will do it again tonight. It's been a very cold, windy, and overcast day today. Feels pretty good to me, though, I have to admit.

I wish you all could see him now- he's moving like crazy and making some really fun shapes. I've definitely been feeling more tired recently, and a little crummy during the day time. Sleep is a little harder to come by, but still a lot better for me than what I hear from most pregnant women at the end. I've begun to have a little bit of a stuffy nose and the faintest trace of heartburn when I lay too flat. All good signs that the end is really coming and that I'll be ready for it when it does:) I'm still enjoying the pregnancy, though, and it will be a strange feeling when he is no longer tossing and turning inside.

Oh, and did we tell you we picked the name? It will be Jakub Eli. These are both family names for us. We will spell Jakub as such, because it's also a favorite Czech name of ours and we would love for it to work in both languages for him. We will pronounce it as the typical "Jacob" when we speak English, it will only be spelled a different way. In Czech it will be pronounced "ya-koob." For short (they shorten all baby-related things here) they/we will call him Kuba or "koo-ba" in Czech. I hope that's not too confusing for you. We also really love the name Eli. We'll have to work that in some as well:)