So I'm Lazy - Sue Me.

My attempt to re-hide my blog consisted of changing the address. Clever, eh? Yes, I know I could have gone to LiveJournal or some other place, Yes, this time I know that people can find me pretty easily. If someone wants to go through all the trouble of searching me out, well, welcome! Otherwise, it's just gonna be me and my thoughts and my life.

The last weekend really took some of my joy away. Not away from my actual joy at having the baby, of course, It just served to take away from my general feelings of happiness and contentment. It sucks that something that is so irrelevant can cause so much unhappiness, but it did. Hopefully the people who have been flaming me will lose interest if it's not so easy to get to me from a link on another blog. People LOVE their drama though, so we'll see.

On to some actual baby shit! Julie had her first baby doctor appointment yesterday, and I was there. I'm not sure, but I don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable in my life. First she has to get butt naked (which I'm all for) to put on the little paper gown. Then the doc comes in and chats it up for awhile. He finishes with the niceties and calls the nurse, and that's when the fun begins. The nurse breaks out a speculum (don't ask me how I know what it is,just go with me) and these reeaaaaaaal long sticks with cotton on the end of them. Dr. Wu is our doc, by the way, and he steps on this machine that makes the stirrups come out from under the table Julie is sitting on. It's at this time I start to sweat. I'm not sure if I should be in the room or not, you know? It just felt a little inappropriate. So he starts his exam by checking her breasts. Now, talk about weird. Some random dude is touching my girls boobs! I had to look away because I didn't want to stare! It was weird and I didn't want the nurse to think I was getting off on it or anything.

Now comes the fun part. She has her legs in the stirrups - butt-ass naked, remember - and he gets this incredibly bright lamp, and he and the lamp park themselves comfortably between my girlfriends thighs. Whoa! It was during this moment I realized I was very, very tense. Again, this is weird. I'm freaking out because I don't know what I'm supposed to do or where I'm supposed to look! Do I say something? Is this the time to ask questions? If I distract him will he get startled and mess up? Just what is he doing down there? Can I look? During this whole time, he's chatting about Julie's sister and her baby, cracking lame doctor jokes and telling little stories! At this point I start to think I'm feeling a little dizzy, but there is nowhere to lie down. Then *BAM*! With a practiced snap of his glove into the biohazard bin, it's over. He tells me to stop hyperventilating (that's a joke), gives Julie a basket full of magazines and pre-natal vitamins and sends us down to get blood work. Julie has A- blood, so I have to be tested to see if I have positive blood. If I do, then Julie has to get a shot at 28 weeks (I think) and right after she has the baby. That will keep her body from identifying the baby as a virus and creating antibodies to attack it. Yeah, crazy. In four weeks we go back, and that is when we will get the first ultrasound. We're thinking about getting the 4D ultrasound, man is THAT shit cool!

When we got home last night we were lying in bed together with Monday Night Football playing as background noise. She was going through the basket of goodies she got from the doctor, and I was on the laptop looking at pregnancy fitness websites. It was a good feeling, a really good feeling. It's weird when people talk about my "family, " but that is truly what I have now; a family. Life is good, man, life is good.