The Date is Circled in Red...

The room is painted, the bassinet is ready, the clothes are washed....are YOU ready, Hadley?

We have a lot to catch up on! I know I've been kind of slacking on the blog, but things have been hectic recently. I'll go by what happened in order:

1) Mom's OB dropped her. She was kind of an irritating woman, always dithering about having a "10 lb. baby" when it was clear Hadley was having trouble gaining weight.

Apparently her and the partners got together and decided Mom was a liability. So, goodbye Dr. Zhang--we won't be recommending you to anyone we know.

2) I will probably be slapped for mentioning this, but on the day of meeting the specialist Zhang put us in touch with... Mom edited this out!

3)*** We met the specialist, Dr. Perlow, in ritzy Scottsdale. He is a very nice man who seemed a little puzzled when we told him all of Zhang's worries.

Since Mom's age qualifies her for high-risk, but she has no hypertension, no preterm labor warning signs, no bleeding, basically no complications (aside from gestational diabetes), he told us he wasn't worried!

4) I am mad. We went through 7 months of visiting Zhang, having her tell Mom things that turn out to have worried us, unnecessarily! I wish I could have been there when she let Mom know. She actually said, "I'll have to swallow my pride and agree with my partners..."

Swallow your pride? How about you could have been a better doctor, to begin with? Or a better person, to be more accurate? I am well aware that I don't have an OB/GYN degree, but you let this go on for SEVEN MONTHS, knowing Mom was high-risk, without thinking maybe she's better off with a specialist?

5) We go to the OB Triage at Thunderbird Hospital. Mom hadn't felt Hadley move in a while, she gets hooked up, Hadley moves of course--a regular Squirmy Worm--and Perlow said we were fine to go later.

6) The house is being painted up, and Had's room is almost finished. Now we have to just put her furniture together, and hook up the car seat, and...we're kind of ready for you, Haddy.

7) Mom meets her new doctor today. He looks exactly like Edward Norton, and is just as nice as Dr. Perlow.



***Mom is scheduled for an amniocentesis on the 26th. If Hadley's lungs are developed enough, she'll be delivered by C-section on June 27th, 2008!

The 27th just happens to be my favorite day of the month, and my all-time favorite number.

So, the next time I check in...I could have some pictures of a very cute newborn with me!