And, We're Walking...

Baby C and I had our monthly prenatal appointment today.

Ultrasound Take 1:  No dice.  Just as he/she did two times in the States at Beaumont Fetal Imaging, Baby C wore his/her "stubborn hat" and would not give us a good look at their heart.  Last time they were breech, this time they were "spine up" and the spine was casting a shadow on the heart.

So, we walked. And drank juice. And walked some more. And waited.

Walking...

Waiting...

                              

                                              Lobby

Ultrasound Take #2: No dice. Shadows. But, we did get a thumbs up.

Thumbs up!

So, we walked. And drank water. And did the stairs. And walked some more. And waited.

Round two, been here before

Scenes from the walk

Checking in with work (and waiting)

Playing with the timer on our new camera (blur is a mystery)

Kyle was embarrassed of his hyper wife (too much juice)

Ultrasound Take #3: Dr. Kwon came up (the ultrasound suite is separate from the suite where we see our doc) to "see the baby's heart for herself."   At first the fact that the doc was conducting the ultrasound made me nervous, but then I realized we had been there for three hours and were approaching the lunch break. Everything in Korea stops around lunch. Serious business, lunchtime.  No joke, she was completing our ultrasound so she/everyone could go to lunch.

In the first minutes, she sighed, "The baby is not cooperating." Then she said, "Are you learning the gender? I know what it is!"

Pause.

Kyle and I said, "No, we're going to wait."

Pause. Dr. Kwon just smiled and told us to let her know if we changed our mind.

A few minutes later, Dr. Kwon exclaimed, "There we go!" She got what she needed and the heart looked good and she thanked us for being so patient while they worked to get the very important (ten) angles of the heart. Whew!

Stubborn but cute Baby C

Kyle was off to work, while Baby C and I caught a cab to EMart (think Meijer). They have a pharmacy and I needed my prenatal vitamins (read: fresh out, took my last one last night).

I asked the driver to go to Dongdaemun. I got dropped of in Namdaemun. That's what we call a language barrier.

I knew I was in the wrong place, and kind of assumed that the cab driver wanted the smelly American (we smell like red meat, they say) out of the cab. I got out, figuring I would find my way to the subway. I knew where I was, it just wasn't my destination of choice.

I crossed the street and saw Tiffany & Company. This cab driver was smarter than I thought! I went into the T &Co inside the lovely eight story mall. I discovered the basement housed Korea's version of Whole Foods! I was in Heaven. I found honey. I found skim milk. I found wheat bread.

Ooooh! 

Aaaah!

Yum

Actually, I stole the bread--on accident. I put it in my cart and when I checked out, the lady spoke in Korean and gestured and pointed like, "Oh, you pay for that over there at the posh, well-lit bakery area." She then put them in my plastic bag and taped it shut (these peeps and their tape). Maybe she thought I already paid?

So pretty

I walked to the posh, well-lit bakery counter and pulled out my bread and tried to hand the fella some money. He ignored my money, put my bread in a beautiful paper bag, rebagged my other groceries in another paper bag and thanked me in English. I walked out with my stolen bread. That's what we call a language barrier.

Back outside, I used my iphone to locate a pharmacy. When the blue dot (me) was on top of the red dot (pharmacy), I looked around and saw the pharmacy! No english spoken at this one, so I opened my coat and rubbed my belly and said, "Vitamin." We located my brand and home I went!

:)sbc