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No Internet access at the hospital. Will have to use my phone for subsequent updates. I really should have bought that keyboard for it. Oh well. We got checked in after a crazy afternoon of finishing packing and a quick meal at the local Mexican joint. Already, it’s far more medical than I was prepared for, though I mean it’s a hospital, I should have known. But she’s had 3 vials of blood drawn, I don’t even know for what.

We’re in a bit of a collective freak-out at the moment. We went in for our usual “non-stress” test and Biophysical profile (ultrasound) today. The BPP score was a 4 out of 8. They didn’t see sufficient movement, nor fetal breathing. (I wish we’d had the other ultrasound technician.) So, even though our non-stress test was fine, the doctor feels like the baby is now in a “better out than in” place.

Today, I received my Official Coach Card indicating that Carolyn and I have completed our Bradley Method training in preparing for a “natural” birth. I (and I believe Carolyn) certainly benefited greatly from Tera Nelson’s training, and feel much more prepared now than I(we) did even a scant month ago. Still, there’s a twinge of nervousness (sometimes more like panic) about this very physical and quite unknown (to us) process that we have coming up.