Since we've decided we're going to decorate The Pickle's room with Curious George, I thought I should make a new baby ticker to reflect this:

Once again, the code can be found at http://grendel.morydd.net/babygeorge.phps

I just spoke to my midwife. The consensus is that the heart murmur and tricuspid regurgitation that I have are minor enough to not warrent antiboitics or further concern. She will continue to monitor it and further testing will be done if anything changes.

Finally got my test results back (sort of). My blood glucose is fine. My iron levels are fine. All the blood work was great.

The echocardiogram did not find mitral valve prolapse, which is what they expected to find if they found anything. Instead, they found Tricuspid regurgitation.
The mirtal valve is on the left side of the heart between the upper and lower chambers. The tricupid valve is between the upper and lower chanbers of the heart on the right side.

My midwife was not certain about antibiotics during labor and delivery. She spoke to the doctors in her practice and none of them were certain either. Most of them said that if it was pregnancy induced, medication was probably not necessary, but some said they thought it might be. She has now kicked my test results back to the cardiologists for futher recommendations.
I need to know about the antibiotics thought because i have a dentist appointment in a few weeks and I will need to take them then also if that is what is recommended.

I guess I just have to wait and see. Either way it does not seem to be anything major to worry about.

A box of books came in the mail today. They were What To Expect When You're Expecting, What to Expect the First Year and What to Expect the Toddler Years. This is very exciting as these are books we most likely would have purchased eventually. (Except the first one, which we have, but this verison is newer than ours.)
The thing is, neither TBWITWW or I recognizes the name or location on the return address, so we're not sure who sent them... very odd.
There was no note or indication of why they were sent to us. Were they an e-bay purchase that someone we know had shipped directly to us? Was it a secret reader of this page? Was it a friend who we've lost track of to the point that we can't place the name? The mystery abounds.

In any case we're very thankful for them, and if you are the sender, Thank you for your generosity.

Celebrity Memorial
A vignette to be performed during the pause between Act IV and V of The Naming Process Thus Far

Sean: I put in the baby blog that we weren't going to name The Pickle Rick James.
Nicole: Good.
Sean: Maybe we should just name him after what celebrity died most recently before he's born.
Nicole: Great, it would probably be some woman and the kid would get stuck with Bea Arthur or something.
Sean: Okay then the most recent male celebrity.
Nicole: Yeah, but with our luck Dweezil Zappa would get in a car accident the morning that The Pickle is born.
Sean: That'd be funny.
Nicole: You're a dork.

(and... scene)

So... Welcome to the World Rick James um... Red Adair um... Faye Wray oh wait... guys only... guess it's Red Adair