Anyone who has ever had an ultra sound knows about the "turquoise goo" the thick gelatin used to help the electronic connectors read the heart beats of the babies. The turquoise goo is comfortable enough during your one hour or less ultra sound (or so Jeni tells me), however it is quite another story being slathered in it the entire day. The goo is everywhere! It is all over Jeni's belly, sheets, pants, and shirt. The goo dries and looks like crusty toothpaste. While the babies behave themselves and stay on the monitors, the nurse does not have to come in and reposition the monitors, bringing forth a large dollop of the turquoise goo to be reapplied to my lovely wife's belly. However, as was the case at least a dozen times last night while we were trying to sleep, our active babies squirmed, poked and prodded their way away from the monitors, and more goo. Now, imagine trying to sleep, rest, or do just about anything else with all this going on. For this reason, Jeni has been anything but bored.We are hoping, at least for the time being, to update the blog nightly to give some sort of recap of the day's events. Jeni has not been bored today. She had a luncheon with other in-patient women as was presented with gifts of little hats, a pregnancy calendar and a Winnie the Pooh book. This evening we got our first "in patient gift"- a wonderful book called Ma! There's Nothing To do In Here told from the perspective of a baby in the womb. It made us laugh out loud and imagine what it's like swimming around in a belly.
Overall, the day was pretty uneventful - just what we're looking for. We're hoping for many more uneventful days of Jeni sitting in the room at St. Joe's.
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I hated that gel. After awhile I got rashes all over my stomach from it and when my boys were particularly naughty I remember them spearing that gel on again and again, and again. A trick we found was to use lotion as a conductor instead and it felt much better.
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