United Hearts

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It's August! Already!

We are about a month away from seeing our boy!

Tonnes of stuff happened in the months gone by. Mostly happy stuff other than the times when she has to get up from the bed. Those are very unhappy times. Small little natural things have become exercises in themselves. Our parent friends sometimes say that it's only a beginning, and there is a lot more to come. We sigh!

However, there are many other things going on that doctors are putting us through. All for our good, of course, but it is a lot of things. The parenting classes, the several hundred types of insurance and other "I am not your responsibility" forms etc. However, of all of them, one experience is worth mentioning and sharing, and that thing is called "Stress Test"

by: Julietta Haynes

So here is the mechanics of it all. About a month before the due date, the uterus starts preparing for the moment of truth - the pushing on 0th birthday of your baby. The doctors need to test the stress in the belly because of all these things going on in there. So, they tie a belt around the belly of mom-to-be and measure stuff for a long time.

How it actually happens is pretty interesting too, almost divine and spiritual in some ways. We were taken to a room that was divided into several chambers using curtains. In each of these little chambers was an entire assembly of a computer and several things attached to it. Each chamber had at least one mom-to-be being monitored.

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They put a sensitive microphone to the bellies and listen for the heartbeats that come through a speaker. What you listen to in this room is the sound of heartbeats from over 15 different tiny hearts beating within the bellies of the mothers.

I might be getting a little bit ahead of myself but it was overwhelming to listen to several little hearts, all going at once, battling their way out to this big bad world of ours. It was insane, and it was a very spiritual moment for me.

Before I start crying, Love and World Peace!