Mentor 1 hour

January 28, 2009 12:00- 1:00

When arriving at the OB-GYN office to see Ms. Barbara I signed in to the front desk and waited in the lobby until I was called back.

Barb came about five minutes later and called me back for my ultrasound. When getting back into the room she proceeded to tell me to lay on my back and lift up my shirt so that she could use the probe on my abdomen. She put a petroleum jelly on my stomach so that the probe slide easily across my abdomen.

We sat in silence for about five or six minutes while she started doing measurements. She then started saying that the baby was definitely a girl, and that she right where she needed to be in her measurements. Barbara said that the baby was about 5 1/2 pounds and that was pretty normal for babies around the 8 month. She also said that my stomach was rather tight and asked Dr. Van Herran to check to see if I was going into labor.

Dr. Van Herran came into the room with another nurse assistant and then checked to see if I was in active labor. He said that I wasn't and that what he thought it was was just barackton hicks contractions. I asked was there any way to tell barackton hicks from real labor contractions. He told me that baracktons will normally stop once you drink something and aren't constant. With labor contractions they come a lot harder and can be timed. That real labor contractions aren't iiregular and most women can definitely tell a difference in the two.