With the exception of the two showers, 3rd tri was pretty uneventful for the most part. Around 32 weeks I thought you started dropping, but in actuality it was probably just a combination of normal pregnancy pressure and trying to walk 5 miles while carrying you. I quit working nights in August so they could have time to find someone else to fill my spot at campus security.
Things started to get kind of scary near the end, though. On October 5th, the night your cousin Ryker was born, I realized that I hadn't felt you move since that morning. I drank lots of sugary juices and waited. Two hours passed and you kicked maybe once in that whole time. That's very bad. At midnight that night, Daddy and I went to the hospital so I could be hooked up to their monitors. Your heartbeat was fantastic, but you still weren't moving.
The last four weeks of pregnancy went like this for me. I went in to the clinic for non-stress tests all the time because you just wouldn't kick. Your heartbeat was progressively slower at each prenatal appointment. I spent so much time afraid that I was going to carry you for nine months and not get to take you home. Finally, during my appointment at 38 weeks, Dr. Franken had the sonographer squeeze me in for a quick scan. Your heartbeat was strong, as usual, if a little on the slow side. The sonographer wanted to get you to move a little, so she took this buzzer and applied it to my stomach. The buzzer was supposed to startle you into kicking. All it did was make you open your eyes blearily, and then close them again. Afterward I had to do another stress test, and they gave me lots of cold water to try to get you moving again (but of course, you didn't.)
This prompted Dr. Franken to schedule an induction for Sunday, October 14th at 6pm. I was really nervous, but at the same time so excited that I was going to finally hold you, and so relieved that I didn't have to worry about your lack of movement anymore.
PS
The song "Ho Hey" by the Lumineers was really popular during the last few weeks of pregnancy, and I sang the chorus to you a lot. "I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart...."
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