my oh my oh my

what a day we had yesterday! all's well that ends well tho, hey? isn't that what they say?

i woke yesterday morning fearing that i was leaking fluid and possibly experiencing contractions. i know, i have failed to mention that i am pregnant again so far on this blog. this was for a few personal reasons and that this blog really is supposed to be about percy. anyways, back to yesterday's tale of adventure...
i shared my concerns with paul and we thought about the best thing to do. tearing off to the emergency department at rpa didn't seem to be it. i even went so far to ask paul to smell the fluid i had wiped on a tissue- poor bastard!! i was trying to get a consensus that it was not urine but possibly amniotic fluid.
we decided to continue with the day as normal and i would call our doctor when they opened at 8:30am. this i did and left a message with the receptionist. all morning at work i was in a bit of a distracted state (ha ha) tho luckily i have some interesting research to do at the moment so that was able to keep my mind off my 18 week old fetus for short stretches.
finally around 12 noon the receptionist called me back and asked if i could come in rather than just talk to the doctor on the 'phone. gee, what do you think? yes! my manager at work is a lovely woman and even offered to drive me to the doctors, she certainly wasn't bothered that i wanted to leave work early.

so, doc did an internal examination, asked me about my health and how the pregnancy had been going, felt my tummy and tried to find the baby's heart beat. she only has the tiniest hand-held heart beat findy thing tho, resulting in no success. Everything really has been peachy except for a fall i took last weekend, landing on my hand and hip more than anywhere else. her conclusion was that all was fine; the liquid was determined to be some mucous-y stuff. a swab was taken just for extra checking. after a couple of telephone calls she also got me into an ultrasound place that afternoon! all those people who have previously booked ultrasounds absolutely aeons in advance just to get in at the right time know what a miracle this is.

we had 45 minutes to get from erko to bondi junction, get parked and find the office, to make my 3pm appointment. and guess what? we did it! the ultrasound showed our little baby happy and healthy- phew. we spent nearly an hour looking him over. yes, him! a little brother for percy! it was really nice to get such an intimate look at bub and see his heart beating strongly, all measurements normal and my cervix firmly closed.

there have been no more contraction/ crampy feelings and no more fluid. we celebrated with take away dinner (because we were too drained to cook, plus percy likes pizza), and our chosen poisons of beer and icecream.