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Things just aren't the same after a drill weekend. All the things I plan to do keep getting postponed over and over again. When you have had no weekend, it tends to sap your energy. (At least I finally updated the web page.)
But I wanted to tell you some of the things I learned last Friday, during my visit to the doctor. First of all, I know some of you are curious about the new baby and how he or she is doing. That's difficult for me to know when I can't feel the baby move, yet. Heck, even when I started to feel Amelia move every day she didn't move (or I didn't notice her moving) I was certain something was wrong. I feel fine, so I usually assume the little one is doing just fine. I'm sure I'll be feeling movement very soon (I first felt Amelia move, for certain, around week 17). Until then my favorite part of every appointment is when they place the dopplar on my belly and I get to listen to the baby's heartbeat. On Friday it was steady and strong. I'm sure everything is going just fine.
Friday I also got to drink that nasty glucose drink they give pregnant women so that they can determine whether or not we have gestational diabetes (tastes almost like that cheep orange drink you get at Safeway in the gallon jugs). They administered this test early, since I have had it in the past. The results were due back on Monday. I have spoken to the office since then and it seems that no news is good news. Of course, I will be taking the test AGAIN at some point because, again, I had gestational diabetes with Amelia.
While waiting to see the doctor last week I used my time constructively and read some class material on first language acquisition. Now, some of you may remember taking an on-line quiz a few weeks ago on childhood development. Remember when the quiz told us that the average two-year-old knows 50 words? Didn't that seem a little low? When Amelia is already using words like cantaloupe, giraffe and elbow, I know she MUST already have a vocabulary of more than fifty words. Anyway, according to my class materials for my language acquisition course the average two-year-old knows 400 words. That makes a lot more sense.
I also read something that, once again, reinforces to me that Amelia is a very bright little girl. According to the text, "During Stage II [approximately 2.5 to 3 years old]...children usually cannot count, although they are sometimes taught to hold up two or three fingers, to indicate their age."
Yeah. I guess all of you know that Amelia can count to 13. She's just a sharp cookie, I guess.
Lisa
But I wanted to tell you some of the things I learned last Friday, during my visit to the doctor. First of all, I know some of you are curious about the new baby and how he or she is doing. That's difficult for me to know when I can't feel the baby move, yet. Heck, even when I started to feel Amelia move every day she didn't move (or I didn't notice her moving) I was certain something was wrong. I feel fine, so I usually assume the little one is doing just fine. I'm sure I'll be feeling movement very soon (I first felt Amelia move, for certain, around week 17). Until then my favorite part of every appointment is when they place the dopplar on my belly and I get to listen to the baby's heartbeat. On Friday it was steady and strong. I'm sure everything is going just fine.
Friday I also got to drink that nasty glucose drink they give pregnant women so that they can determine whether or not we have gestational diabetes (tastes almost like that cheep orange drink you get at Safeway in the gallon jugs). They administered this test early, since I have had it in the past. The results were due back on Monday. I have spoken to the office since then and it seems that no news is good news. Of course, I will be taking the test AGAIN at some point because, again, I had gestational diabetes with Amelia.
While waiting to see the doctor last week I used my time constructively and read some class material on first language acquisition. Now, some of you may remember taking an on-line quiz a few weeks ago on childhood development. Remember when the quiz told us that the average two-year-old knows 50 words? Didn't that seem a little low? When Amelia is already using words like cantaloupe, giraffe and elbow, I know she MUST already have a vocabulary of more than fifty words. Anyway, according to my class materials for my language acquisition course the average two-year-old knows 400 words. That makes a lot more sense.
I also read something that, once again, reinforces to me that Amelia is a very bright little girl. According to the text, "During Stage II [approximately 2.5 to 3 years old]...children usually cannot count, although they are sometimes taught to hold up two or three fingers, to indicate their age."
Yeah. I guess all of you know that Amelia can count to 13. She's just a sharp cookie, I guess.
Lisa
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