Fire Drills in the OB Clinic!

So this morning Alex and I had our 26wk baby check up at Walter Reed Bethesda Naval Medical Center (hereby referred too as Walter Reed or WR).

 To catch folks up, I'm being seen there instead of at Andrews because they have a complicated OB clinic and I have a history of blood clots in my legs (I've gotten two before). Since being pregnant automatically makes you more likely to get blood clots in your legs, this makes me higher risk. I'm taking anti-coagulant shots twice a day, and my levels are monitored monthly. It sounds scary but if all I have to do is take shots twice a day until this munchkin gets here, I can't really complain that much.

After battling traffic on the beltway (surprisingly not that bad this morning) we actually ended up at our appointment really early (we're always Early ha ha). They check me in, do the usual run up (blood pressure, weight, temp) and put us in the exam room. Almost as soon as the nurse closes the door an alarm starts going off. Alex and I look at each other, and after we process what it might be, he opens the door to see if we need to evacuate the building. "it doesn't look like the people that work here know" he laughed. Well great, now what? Finally, the head nurse grabs her coat and with a smile tells us to follow her. We then proceed with everyone else in the OB clinic outside to the rally point. Side note: it was 30 degrees outside :)

About 20 minutes later we're back in our exam room, and the doc finally comes in to do the check up. Since my clotting levels have been good, and I haven't had any other major issues with baby growing so far so they are moving me from the Complicated OB clinic to Senior OB clinic, so I'll still be seen by a physician instead of a nurse or midwife like in the regular OB clinic. We got to hear baby Ben's heartbeat, even though he squirmed around a ton and she couldn't get a solid heart rate. Signs of things to come perhaps, a little squirmy child in our future!

We didn't get an ultrasound, though we were both really hoping for it. However, we do have another growth ultrasound in about a week so we'll get lots of good pics then and I'll be sure to post them here with baby updates! Until then, here's a picture of this awesome onsie Alex's mom got us! How cute is baby Capt America?!