I went in for another NST (Non-stress test) today. The amniotic fluid was back up to slightly above the minimum for normal levels. Hoping that it stays put now. I have another NST scheduled for Wednesday as well as meeting with Dr. Rassmussen afterwards. If the amniotic fluid is still up then if it's okay with Dr. Rassmussen I can go back to only having NST's once a week instead of twice. No complaints about that here! I'm excited that my doctor, Dr. Hebert will be back on Aug. 22nd too! She's been out with her new baby and is finally coming back, yeah!!! Not too much past that and we'll have Savannah.
I can't hardly wait to hold this little girl! To say that she might be a little bit spoiled might be the understatement of the century. Howard has already surmised that if people didn't think that I ever put the last three down that they'd better think again. He told me the other day that it will be a miracle if I ever set this child down. He said he'd better just learn to be content watching me hold her because he doesn't think that I'll share. It is a well known fact that I don't share my babies, but Howard has always spent plenty of time holding them. I think he might be going overboard there a little bit. I am grateful for my Moby Wrap that will allow me to hold her as much as I want even when I need to have my hands free to do little things like make dinner. I fell in love with it when I had Brayden and hope that Savannah will like to be in it too. Howard loves Sundays because of my calling he has always taken the babies with him to Sunday School and Priesthood, and unless I get released, which I don't see happening soon, he will get to enjoy that time with Savannah now. He likes that he can just sit and play with them and watch them without having to worry about anything else. I like to sneak out of primary occassionally to kiss them though, Howard likes that, becuase then he thinks he can kiss me too.
In truth I love watching Howard hold our babies. That was one of the good memories from the day that Karlie was born. After she was suctioned and breathing okay they gave her to Howard to hold. He looked terrified as he carried her over to show her to me. That first night in the hospital I couldn't get out of bed because of the spinal block and so Howard took care of getting up to get Karlie and changing her diapers. I did have to show him what he was doing the first time, but he quickly became an expert and has never complained about helping out in that department.
Howard is such a good dad! He participates in every way in caring for our children's needs. His greatest joy is to play with them, which he doesn't have a lot of time to do right now. He talks to them while we all clean up after dinner in the evenings, and then on Sundays he spends time playing with them all afternoon. Derek LOVES to build trains with his dad. I've seen him playing with Karlie and her doll house. Brayden loves to climb all over him and be flown in the air or play horsey. They all love it when daddy is home for story time and can read to them. And they know that if there is ever enough time that they can convince him to take them to the playground. I know that he is looking forward to Savannah's coming and getting to hold her too! He wants to help deliver her he says. He didn't want to even cut the umbilical cord when I had Derek because he felt bad breaking that connection, and now he wants to deliver Savannah. We'll see what happens. I'm sure if she's full term and everything is going smoothly that my doctor won't have a problem with him helping. No matter what happens though I will be looking forward to seeing him hold his baby girl.
I guess it's time to give up on Howard coming up anytime soon and retire to bed myself. It was another long day at work for him and he has to finish preparing for his presentation tomorrow. He won't have any time to work on it tomorrow seem as as soon as he gets off he'll be heading straight to class. Hopefully he gets to bed before he has to get up for work in the morning. It's a very rare occasion when we don't go to bed together. I don't sleep well when he's not there so I wait as long as I can hold out before trying to go to bed, even then it's often futile because I can't fall asleep. One more week and this semester will be over! Hopefully that means more sleep for a couple of weeks for both of us.
Sorry, not the most comprehensible of writing tonight. I guess that's what I get for writing when it's so late!
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