This past Sunday night Cambria and I were talking when she said the baby was starting to kick. She had me put my hand on her stomach. I waited for a while but didn't feel anything. After about a minute I felt a small little bump hit my hand. I thought it was the most amazing thing! Up till now all I had seen was a black and white image on a screen that barely looked like a baby. Now I was actually able to feel her! What an amazing miracle. It's true that I am nervous to have a child but I'm excited at the same time.
About a week ago Cambria had an appointment with her doctor. It is a special ultrasound appointment where they measure all the parts of the baby to make sure she's growing well. Monty and LInda came along too. My mom was invited but she couldn't get away from work. It was a longer ulrasound which was nice. We had time to look at all the bones, her brain, and we even watched her heart beating. Everything looked great and she is a healthy little girl. They then did the 3D imaging of the baby. It looked so neat to be able to descipher facial features, and see her little arms and toes. Her arm was above her head and across her forehead. Cambria poined out that that is exactly what I do when I sleep.
Cambria is six months along now, and still doing really well. She has some pain from time to time associated with pregnancy but all in all she feels great and is as cute as ever. Since I wrote the paragraph above about feeling the baby kick, I have felt her quite often. It's still really neat. Cambria was using her laptop the other day and the baby kicked and Cambria said the baby kicked the laptop.
Life is crazy but fun. School is definitely omnipresent and chemistry classes occupy most of my time. This semester I will be done with all of my general studies classes and will have an Associates Degree. From here on out I have three more chemistry classes, a math, two physics classes, and a handfull of microbiology classes. I am trying to focus on enjoying the now and not looking too far ahead. If I do I get down on myself about how much longer I have to go until I'm out of med-school. So now I am going to go study some more
Josh,
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine how discouraging it could be looking too far down the medical academic road! Ugh!! BUT, enjoying the here and now, and just plowing through is SOOOOO smart!! A friend of mine told me one time "5 years is going to pass whether you are in school getting a degree, or not. What are you going to have to show for your time?"
I think you're doing a great job, Josh! Keep up the good work. I love watching you and Cam do so good at the things you're trying to accomplish and have a good relationship, too!!
Love you both!
Patrice