Week 9: Dangling Shoes
Contents: Road Trip! The hospital has an office that the Maternal Fetal Medicine people from UVA use to visit our small town twice a week, but they were booked out for weeks. Instead, we ended up driving a few hours to the UVA hospital. Joe had to work, and it seemed silly to have him miss an entire day when we needed to be saving our PTO for having a baby. Instead, my mom and I went. It was nice to spend time with her. I had moved out of her house to shack up with Joe a few months prior, and I missed her. Sure, we live in the same town, and she's only half an hour away, but it's different. We spent the drive talking about a little bit of everything. I wasn't nervous about this appointment; I felt confident that the second ultrasound we had would have detected anything if there was something to detect. I figured that the midwives were sending me there, more or less, to cover their bases. My hormone levels were unusually high, after all. We got t...