It's been several days since my last post, and a few things have happened. Our visit to the doctor was mostly uneventful. We had our first NST - Non-Stress Test - at the UW on Monday. They strapped two monitors to Pui's belly and monitored Pat's heartbeat for about 20 minutes. Then, because the nurse wasn't sure he was showing enough "Accelerations" (temporary increases in his heart rate) she pulled out something that looked a little like an electric razor with an oval pad in place of the cutting head, pressed it against Pui's belly, and turned it on. BZZZZZZZT! It gave off a loud buzz and vibrated against Pui's belly. "Non-stress test" my left foot! His little heart-rate jumped significantly and for some time, as did Pui's. And mine. But apparently it was enough, as the nurse didn't use her hand-buzzer on Pui again and let us go see the doctor.
We waited and waited for the doctor, but she was far behind schedule: we didn't mind - it's nice to know the doctor will give people extra attention when they need it, but it was long. Pui started to get hungry, so we asked the front desk for a pager so we could go grab something quickly in the cafeteria. Here's a hint: if you want a late doctor to appear, buy some food and sit down to eat it. Two bites in we got paged. We carried our food up, and Dad waited in the waiting room with our lunch while we saw the doctor.
We learned that Pui had actually lost a pound of weight since our last visit, but Dr. Cheng wasn't worried. In fact, she said that everything appeared to be going very well. She said that Pui needs to eat many small meals, because the baby is pushing on her stomach and making it so she could eat less at any one sitting. Forced to eat 5 or 6 meals a day ... I would like to have that. But then I like to eat.
In the following days Pui gained a couple of pounds, and I got an attack of gout. For the last few days I've been hobbling about - it waxes and wanes, and has yet to go away entirely. :-( On a happier note, we went to a delicious restaurant with some friends of Pui (If you are in the Seattle area, I can highly recommend three restaurants: The Silver Spoon Thai Restaurant, near Trinity Golf Course, Nopakao Thai Restaurant in Juanita, and Tom Yum Koong Thai Restaurant in West Seattle. All three are very delicious. The owners of the Tom Yum Koong are opening a restaurant in Bellevue next week, and we are planning to eat there - the Tangerine Thai Restaurant. I salivate just thinking about it. :-)
When we went to the restaurant, we also went to a Thai market, where Pui bought some Coconuts. When we got home, we realized that we didn't have anything like a machete or big knife to open them up. We talked about what we could use with Dad, and he hit upon a solution: you can see it in the picture to the right. Opening Coconuts with hand-saws probably isn't the best way to get at it, but it sure worked! We opened a hole big enough for a straw, and Pui had some nice, cool coconut water to drink.
That about catches us up: we have another doctor's appointment tomorrow, where we hope the scheduled "Non-stress Test" doesn't include any alarming baby-buzzers.
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