Hey Jacob,
A little more about that heart rate stuff:
This is what the nurse pays the most attention to for you right now. Your mom has a strap around her belly that listens for your heartbeat and passes it to a computer. The nurse monitors this as well as the reading from a similar strap that monitors contractions.
What she looks for is good variability from a baseline rate. Throughout the day, your baseline varies slowly, but within those changes the rate should occassionally accelerate past baseline. This indicates that you're in there kicking around and are preparing for the big event.
Your mom just said: "what is this thing I'm feeling? Oh that's my leg. "
See you soon,
Dad
Hmm, will she not be able to remember this because of the hormones or because of the drugs??
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