Trauma.

The last like day and a half has been kind of scary.
I've been sick lately, and Monday and Tuesday were pretty bad. I was coughing all kinds of stuff up and my throat was just killing me. However, I never had a temperature. So I wasn't too worried, until yesterday. I realized I hadn't felt BB move all day. I tried to get her to move by eating, drinking, laying on my side (her side), all kinds of stuff. Very little movement. I could feel Ace move ALL OVER the place, but not BB. So, since I could feel her just a bit I wasn't that worried, although I was still concerned. So today, the same thing. She wasn't responding to anything I did. Just so happened that the doctor called to see how I was feeling (I called them on Monday to see what they wanted me to do about being sick). I told them I wasn't feeling BB too much, like a lot less, and they told me to go to the Emergency room for monitoring.
It really freaked me out. I've never had to go to the hospital (as far back as i can remember anyways). Plus, I thought they'd want me to have ultra sound at the office, I never expected them to send me to the hospital. I had to leave work, and I didn't want to go alone so I picked Chris up from work and headed down. My blood pressure was up from normal, but it wasn't considered 'high' and my pulse was elevated also. They sent me up to OB, strapped on the monitor--low and behold--two heartbeats. THANK GOD! After about 15 or 20 minutes they said that everything was OK but that my doc wanted to do an ultra sound just to be sure. So I got an ultra sound--lots of movement, 2 heart beats, healthy healthy healthy. WHEW!
The nurse told me that I probably have something called 'Maternal Anesthesia' Basically she said sometimes when your uterus starts to get bigger (like late in pregnancy bigger) the nerve endings start to feel less and less. Plus, it turns out that BB completely turned around. Her head was down, and now it's like up near my ribs. Which would explain why I wasn't feeling her kick, because her legs/feet were in the opposite direction. However, they were both moving all over on the ultrasound and I couldn't feel any of it so they chalked it up to the nerve endings. I am going to ask my midwife about it when I see her next.
They told me that anytime I go like a day w/o feeling them I need to come in. I got this long list of things to look out for and reasons to come into the hospital ASAP. I am glad to say both babies are completely healthy, and right now I don't have anything to worry about. WHEW!

On the bright side, I got to go to the hospital where I will have the babies. I got to see where I would be, and EVERYONE was really really nice/friendly/awesome. I feel very comfortable about having my baby girls there.

What-a-day!