The Final Countdown!

Phew!  Two full clinic days down, one to go.  Next week I just have two half days of clinic.  I half-wish that following my last clinic session (or even during it), I go into labor to maximize my time off.  I would entirely wish that if Josh wasn't scheduled to be on call the weekend before my August 3rd due date.  Dumb scheduling person.

I've been having a ton of Braxton-Hicks contractions lately.  At night it seems like any time I change positions, things get all tight in my belly.  Nina was a little quiet the other night, and I started to freak out a bit, thinking that I hadn't even felt her have hiccups lately--after an hour of worrying and wondering what I was going to do with Elena since Josh was out of town, she gave a stretch and proceeded to hiccup.  And today I've been feeling her little knees in my ribs all day.  Squirmer.

Poor Nina.  I think I may have mentioned already that I'm having guilt over not being more attentive to this pregnancy than I was to my last.  I know that having a kiddo to run after gives you a great excuse for not practicing yoga regularly like you did last time, but even taking prenatals has been a struggle for me. I also stymied myself a bit by being taken in with the concentrated nature of Nordic Natural's liquid fish oil.  There is SO much EPA and DHA in just a small amount... But I haven't taken it more than a handful of times, unlike the handfuls of capsules I was downing with Elena.  Ellen is right--that stuff is nasty to take on a regular basis.  All of this led to Josh's conclusion that "we should just stick a propeller beanie on Nina right when she comes out".  I just can't get the damned propeller beanie out of my head these days.  Hopefully lots of love and post-natal DHA, extended nursing, and wanting to be like her sister lead to development similar to Elena.

Anyway.  I can't wait to have some time away from work.  Between squeezing in end-of-the-year make up clinics in June and hurry-up-maternity-leave-is-coming squeezing in of clinics in July, I am totally spent.  No more clinics!!!  I felt really rusty last week seeing patients--I fell WAY far behind early on, in part due to blanking out mid-sentence and also in large part due to the complexity of my patients' social issues.  I get so jealous of some resident clinics that have visits for otitis media or well child checks.  I think I need to diurese my patient panel a bit to make room for more straight-forward visits.  Oh well.

Enough rambling.  I'm being kicked in the bladder and my mush-brain needs sleep.