You have to indulge yourself some times right???

Here's my dinner from In-N-Out Burger. A Double Double (Animal Style), french fries (well-done) and a vanilla shake. I'm sure I will regret this in the morning but it will be oh so delicious. Definitely one of the best things about California.

NT Scan

OMG...The day we I have been waiting for resulted in a quickie appointment and a run to Taco Bell.

So let's just start this off by saying that 2:30 in afternoon does not make an ideal time for any prenatal appointments for Torin and myself, since A.) we both work at least 30 minutes from the doctors office and B.) I'm pretty much worthless at work because I'm thinking about my appointment.

After 5 hours of waiting patiently (yea right...who am I kidding) for the clock to get to 1:30 to leave, I drive to pick Torin up from the BART station and proceed on to the appointment. Of course today would be the day we have horrible weather and in turn horrible traffic in the middle of the damn day.

Why is it still raining in May in California??? Rain in California means that no one (except a very select few people) knows how to drive. Therefore you have 2 groups of idiots on the road. The idiots in Group A that are speeding, changing lanes, and tailgating like it's not raining and the idiots in Group B that are at the other extreme and driving like their driving Miss Daisy and will not stay in the slow lane to accommodate the idiots in Group A and the rest of the sane people just trying to get where they are going.

I'm way off subject...so we get to the appointment, check in, and are brought to the procedure room. The nurse doesn't leave us so I assume they aren't using the dildocam and ask her what I need to do. She asks me to please not take off my pants but to just roll them down some. Apparently, they get quite a few people trying to get nekkid at this appointment. After prepping and putting the towels in place not to mess up my pants she leaves.

I have to say, they had a very nice set up so that everyone could see the ultrasound. The visitor was positioned so that they could see on the larger monitor on the actual ultrasound machine and the patient could see on a monitor on the wall which was at the perfect angle.

The doctor comes in shortly after. He was nice but very quiet. I mean not a peep out of him during most of the ultrasound which consisted of him rubbing the transducer all around my stomach and clicking on keys on the ultrasound machine. At one point, he was actually prodding my stomach, not sure if he was trying to get the baby to move or to get a better angle but I ended up laughing which causes everything to get distorted. We got to see the babe as the doctor was doing what he needed to do. The babe had its back toward us. I guess that would be the perfect position for the test. You could see it's little legs kicking. At one point it looked like s/he was rolling over...as in "leave me alone, I'm trying to sleep in here." The doctor then finished up and stated "I'm now going to go calculate the risk of your baby having downs syndrome." Talk about mood killer. He rolled off to a computer and started typing away. He then turned around and stated that we have a negative screen for downs syndrome, congratulations. After a sigh of relief, we said thanked him, and discussed a few other things. We found out the baby is measuring at 13 weeks 2 days (yay!!) instead of 12 weeks 4 days and we would get a copy of the report next week at our next prenatal appointment. Despite eating at 1:00pm, I was starving when we left the appointment at 3:07pm and begged Torin to have some food with me before I had to drop him off at the BART station to go back to work. And that is how we ended up at Taco Bell.