Yesterday we went in for our monthly prenatal visit. Everything’s going well still. Rona has a cold, and is totally miserable, wishing she could just take some cold medicine. After we talked with Dr. Bonnie about safe options (vitamins, minerals, fluids, rest, 5 colors of vegetables per day, and sock therapy*) we went into the exam room to listen to Zoey’s heartbeat.
The traditional confusion over the due date ensued, and then one of the midwifery students (I know I’ll remember their names by the time Zoey arrives) fired up her Doppler fetal heartrate monitor. We had brought along Rona’s cool little Sony MiniDisc Walkman and a microphone, so now we can share Zoey’s heartbeat with you! This is a little (30kb) 4-second MP3 file, so it should easily play via Windows Media Player or Real Audio, even for you modem-users. Let me know if you have troubles.
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* Sock therapy, you ask? Dr. Bonnie said to put a pair of short cotton socks in icewater, wring them out, and then put ‘em on your feet. You then pull some thick wool socks over the cotton socks, and the heat from your head (assuming you have a fever or I suppose an unnaturally warm head) will be drawn down into your feet, for sweet relief. Rona mentioned that this was pretty cool, but I forgot to bug her about how exactly it worked for her.
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