Thursday February 2, 2012 - 32 Weeks

I had my follow-up appointment with Dr. Castilla today and since I am no longer bleeding, she could do the Fetal Fibronectin test today. I have to wait until tomorrow to get the results but due to the results of all my tests at the hospital, Dr. Castilla is pretty confident that I'm not going into pre-term labor and that everything is fine. Again, we're not really sure why I started bleeding in the first place but I'm not now so we will see what the results of the test are. Tonight we had our first childbirth class. It's a 4 week class every week that goes over different topics that we need to know about for the birth process. Tonight we went over different things we could do to ease labor. I truly hope that I can utilize what I learned tonight and help my labor. I plan to not leave for the hospital until I've labored for awhile. I would rather labor at home then at the hospital for hours and hours. Everyone says that labor for your first child can take a very long time. We both really enjoyed the class and look forward to next week's topic. On a side note, I received a call today from the salon manager and it seems that they have worked out leaving my station at the salon and that I can stay! It is a huge relief to not have to worry about finding another salon right now.   The salon nonsense and the bleeding was way too much stress for me this week. The stress is not good for a pregnant woman so I am looking forward to trying to relax as much as possible.