Sophie's trip to Starship Hospital

I was a bit apprehensive sitting in the waiting room at the hospital today

What the hell is that nurse doing with all these wires and stuff!

Actually, it's not that bad at all...I can see my heart beating strongly on the machine and the nurse smiled at me so I had to smile back.

This is my reaction after finding out that I'm all healthy!

What a day we have had! Sophie had her appointment at Starship Hopsital to get her heart murmur checked out. The appointment was at 9.50am, but after getting stuck in traffic and then spending 20minutes trying to find a park at the hospital we finally rushed in late only to find half of Auckland in the waiting room too! The receptionist told us it would be about a three hour wait - crikey. It was so quiet in the waiting room that you could have heard a pin drop, so Sophie decided to let out a few very loud squeals just to show everyone that its great fun to be a baby, luckily no one minded and a couple of the other babies decided to make some noise too.

We saw a nurse first so she could take her weight and height and then we saw the person who did the ECG and then finally the doctor who gave us the good news that she is healthy and fine with just an irregular heartbeat but its not life threatening or anything like that - whew!

Now as Brad has mentioned during the last couple of posts he has really done his back in. Its so bad that he has to crawl out of bed in the morning until he can limber up enough to get onto his feet - but the tough fella is still going to work with the help of some strong painkillers and anti-inflammatries and generally feels a little better by the end of the day. However today as we were leaving the doctors office at the hospital he was pushing Sophie along in the pram and his back went into a spasm and he dropped to the floor taking the buggy with him! The buggy tipped over backwards with Sophie (luckily strapped in) and flipped over! She got such a fright that she screamed and screamed! Here we all were just a minute earlier with big smiles on our faces and the next minute we have a very upset little girl and Brad feeling awful...

So after all today's excitment Sophie has had very little sleep and is now overtired. She went to bed early tonight and it took me 20 minutes of rocking her to sleep only to have her wake up and hour later very upset. Another 5 minutes of rocking and (touch wood) she seems to be peacefully sleeping again. Lets hope she sleeps well tonight as usual.

Ingrid