I've been having some freaky weird symptoms over these last two weeks. In spite of the fact that I whine (a lot) about being pregnant, I had actually been feeling quite a bit better. But last Tuesday, I was sitting in my first day of my two-week intensive when my hands went numb. This was accompanied by severe lightheadedness and shortness of breath. I did my best to keep my cool and not draw attention to myself, but I thought I might faint. So during the break, I called the doctor. They had me come in for a blood pressure check, which was fine, so they sent me back to work and I seemed okay. On Wednesday, I sat through class with no ill effects. I figured that whatever had happened had been resolved.

Then this Monday, it happened all over again. This time, I couldn't make it through class. I went to the student lounge to lie down and get my bearings and virtually immediately started throwing up. Andiclaus had to take the bus to campus so he could drive me home. When I called the nurse this time, she told me that she wasn't concerned about any of these symptoms and that they were all a normal part of pregnancy. WTF? If this is just how I'm going to feel for the next nine weeks, I might as well drop my classes now. There's no way I can function like this at a high enough level to maintain class participation.

In other babiclaus news, we had an ultrasound at 30 weeks. She was measuring 32 weeks 4 days, weighed 4 1/2 pounds and is head down. While the doctor had previously seemed completely unconcerned about her size, at this appointment, she came in and said, "Well, she is big." I was having some leg pain in my left leg with associated edema, so I had to have my leg dopplered to rule out a DVT (bloodclot). It was surprisingly uncomfortable. Anyway, a DVT was ruled out, so that's good. The doctor may have also mentioned something about dilation that I didn't freak about until I was in the car on the way home.

We have another appointment today because the doctor asked to see me in one week (which wouldn't normally happen until 36 weeks). I hope this isn't the new schedule, because I just don't have the time to see my doctor every week (no matter how pretty and nice she is).

We've ordered the babiclaus' crib, changing table, stroller, car seat and crib bedding and it should all be arriving relatively soon. Once it's all here and we've set up her nursery (after cleaning our apartment to to tail), I'll take some pictures of all of it. (Empty promises, I know.)

I'm having a minor (or perhaps major) identity crisis regarding my lack of direction in life. I'm trying not to talk about it here (because it isn't really very funny) and now (since I'm fairly certain that at lease some of this is hormonal). But watch out for upcoming posts! Please remind me that you don't come here for a huge downer.

With that in mind, I'll try to post the ultrasound picture we got last week when I get home today, but I don't have a scanner so no quality promises.

Updated to Add: Okay. Here she is. The quality of the photo is pretty crappy. It's a photo of an ultrasound printout. But she does look remarkably like my baby pictures.