Stressful tests...

I know they're supposed to be called "Non-Stress Tests," but they're very much the opposite! Just getting out of the house and to the office by 8:30am is stressful enough, but then getting hooked up to monitors for almost an hour is really bad! I have to go twice a week to monitor her heartbeat and movement. If she cooperates, it's a 15 minute in-and-out appointment. If she doesn't, like this morning, it takes forever! Baby girl just didn't want to wake up this morning for her monitoring, so we had to take some extreme measures, hehe. The midwife came in, took one look at the sluggish monitor, and very loudly began ringing a cowbell at my belly! I think it woke me up a lot more than little miss! She kicked and punched me for about two seconds and went back to sleep...just like mommy would have done ;) So after 25 minutes of monitoring I had to chug some orange juice to wake her up. She finally proceeded to give me a sound whooping from the inside out and the monitoring went well. She's a healthy, sleepy little thing but we're very thankful that these NSTs are going well. Keep praying for BGS (baby girl stegman) to grow like crazy!