But in good news we got to have a sonogram on Monday! I was having some trouble with spotting {a great way to scare this momma to be} so the doctor ordered a sono {praise God for a amazing, supportive doctor} and we got to see and hear the heartbeat which was the.most.AMAZING.sound.ever. Our jelly bean actually looks like a little baby. Seeing our baby, just makes me believe in God and His awesomeness a bazillion times over. How can you not?!
Anyway, we got some pictures, but they are blurry and blob-like. It was so much clearer on the screen. I think I had WAY too much water in my system. I drank 60 ounces of water!!!!!! Ready for a wet your pants funny story?!
Background: I am 5'3" and 110#s my bladder is the size of a jelly bean anyway. I can drink 8oz of water and be full for the rest of the day. Anyway the sono was scheduled for 3p which didn't help because I had already been drinking throughout the day before drowning myself in 60oz of h2o! Apparently it is some "requirement" to drink all this liquid about 1-2 hours before your sono, so they can get a nice picture window into your uterus. I should have just trusted my insticts and just drank part of that, but I didn't want to be sent home or not get my sono that I guzzled every.last.drop.
Fast forward to sono time. I get in the car and I realize I am about to wet my pants, no lie. I felt like a two year old learning to be potty trained. I was squeezing as tight as I could...pressure mounting with every tick tocking second. I start screaming at Chad "I can't do this! I can't hold it!!!!!" Chad is like what do you want me to do?!?! Note: we are not even 1/2 mile from home at this point. We stop at the first gas station we see (like 1 mile from our house) and I get out and pee a little bit {do you know how hard that is to stop peeing when you are that full?! Yeah, hard.} just to alleviate the pressure. Then we get about 3 miles from that gas station and I start crying and screaming that I am going to wet my pants!!! We have to stop again! Chad asks "should we cancel it?" I said "NO! b/c I will just have to go through this again!" So I relieve myself a little more. Then we go another 7-10 miles (at this point we are 1 mile from the doctor's office) and we have to stop at a spangles for me to go again!!!! My kidneys were actually hurting...I seriously think I could have done some real bodily harm had I not stopped to pee all those times! I felt like I was poisoning myself with water! {That is a real thing you know.}
Finally, we arrive at the medical plaza and we check in; of course I am still dying. I look like I am IN LABOR as I pace around waiting to be called back and get this show on the road. I tried to find a bathroom but they were all in use or locked. As I was pacing I kept thinking how long are they going to make me wait?!??!! (It was only maybe 2 minutes, but when you have to pee that badly it feels like 2 hours!). I just wanted to pee again before we started, but then they called my name. Praise Jesus. Let's go.
When the tech saw me she said "if you are already breathing that hard you need to empty a cup!" Never had I heard such beautiful words. HA! So I did thank God! and then we started the ultrasound. :)
After about 10 minutes she said I was still "too full" and needed to empty out 2 more cups or we wouldn't get any good pictures and measurements. What an ordeal! Next time I at least know NOT to drink that much 24oz should do the trick.
Even though it was rough I couldn't have been more happy to see a healthy little baby flickering around on that screen. Totally and completely worth every painstaking minute.
Me and Tobias Sebastian
