February 8, 2009 - Week 17

This week I was able to go to the gym twice and Paul and I played volleyball a couple of times as well. It felt great to exercise and it is helping my stiff lower back. Jean stayed with us on Monday and Tuesday because she had some seminars in Des Moines. On Wednesday, Paul and I went for a tour of Mercy and Methodist hospitals. In the end, we chose Mercy hospital for delivery because it is a brand new facility and seemed more friendly and comfortable.

On Friday, I went for my four week checkup with my doctor, who works with Methodist hospital. She told me they do not have privileges to deliver in Mercy hospital. In this case, I need to switch doctors so I can deliver in Mercy. I have to decide quickly on a new doctor so they will be available for our due date. Our Negley baby is doing fine and has a heartbeat of 160 beats/min. My belly is slowly growing and my blood pressure is OK as well.

On Friday night, we drove to Clarinda to watch the high school basketball team play Harlan. Harlan is a top ranked team, but Clarinda stayed close until the last 4 minutes. On Saturday, it was a beautiful day with sunshine and temperatures around 60F. I decided to walk to see Grandma Elsie and we spent some nice time together. After lunch, I joined Paul at the farm. It was beautiful out there and we spent the time piling up cedar branches for a future fire. I then went into town to make homemade pizza which I took back out to the farm for us to eat. While we were eating, we had a visitor. This dog came out of the woods and was looking right at us. It was probably a neighbor's dog from across the road. We gave him some leftovers, so he stayed for a while.

Tento tyden jsem sla dvakrat do posilovny a take jsme s Paulem dvakrat hrali volejbal. Citim se dobre a posilovani pomaha mym zadum. V pondeli a utery u nas zustala Jean, byla v Des Moines na seminarich. Ve stredu jsme s Paulem sli na prohlidku nemocnic Mercy a Methodist. Nakonec jsme si na porod vybrali nemocnici Mercy, protoze je nove postavena a take se zda privetivejsi a lepe se v ni citis.

V patek jsem sla na prohlidku k doktorce po ctyrech tydnech, ktera pracuje v Methodist nemocnici. Rikala mi, ze oni nemaji opravneni rodit v nemocnici Mercy. V tomto pripade musim zmenit doktora, abych mohla rodit v Mercy. Musim najit doktora velmi rychle, aby me mohli vyhovet, protoze nase datum porodu se blizi. Nase ditko se ma dobre a ma tlukot srdce 160 tepu/min. Moje brisko pomalu roste a muj krevni tlak je take vpohode.

V patek vecer jsme jeli do Clarindy se podivat na stredoskolsky basketbal, kde Clarinda hrala s mesteckem Harlan. Harlan je povazovan za nejlepsi druzstvo, ale Clarinda bojovala a zustala s nema tesne az do posledni ctvrte minuty. V sobotu byl nadherny slunecny den s teplotami okolo 15C. Rozhodla jsme se, ze se projdu k babicce Elsie (tento rok ji bude 98 roku) a bylo to pekne stravit nejaky cas s ni. Po obede jsem sla s Paulem na farmu. Bylo nadherne, tak jsme tahali suche cedrove vetve na hromadu, kterou pozdeji budeme palit. Pote jsem jela do mesta udelat domaci pizzu, kterou jsem vzala na farmu, kde jsme meli "stolecku prostri se". Pri jidle jsme meli navstevu. Pes se vynoril z krovi a dival se primo na nas. Asi to byl souseduv pes pres cestu. Dali jsme mu nejake zbytky, tak s nami zustal dele.