In Dreams

I was told by a couple of people that I was going to have strange dreams during the pregnancy. I thought it made sense for Tiffany to possibly have weird dreams considering the hormone activity in women during pregnancy but it didn’t make much sense for me to have them too. Sure enough, I’ve started to have some really weird dreams lately.

Probably the strangest occured a few days ago. The baby had been born and Tiffany and I were at a party being held for the baby in a house I didn’t recognize attended by hundreds of people, some of whom I haven’t seen or thought about in years. Very odd, especially considering that I’ve never heard of having a party for a baby AFTER it was  born (It was a boy by the way). Everyone seemed happy to be there though, which was nice.

A quick sidebar. As I sit here, Chase is actually having a dream. Have you ever watched a dog while they are sleeping and having a dream? Chase has some intense dreams and this one is up there. He’s whimpered three times, his tail has wagged and all of his feet have been moving at some point and, of course, his mouth has twitched. Sometimes his eyes will flicker and that is kind of freaky because you see the “whites in his eyes” since his eyeballs are rolled into the back of his head while he was sleeping. Overall, pretty entertaining though.

Anyway, the most memorable part of my dream, or at least the part I still remember clearly today, was when I asked TIffany where a couple of people were (I forget who I asked about) and she said that they were asleep, just like me. After a split second of thinking, “I’m not asleep”, I woke up only to find that my left arm had fallen asleep. Odd. With six months to go, it will be interesting to see how strange they get.

This weekend we’ll be going out to Tiffany’s parents for the long holiday weekend. Her mom is an ER doc and Tiffany was hoping to get an ultrasound performed sometime this weekend on the “down low” by her mom. 

We’re not scheduled for another ultrasound until the beginning of August. Our next visit, which is next week, the doctor will just listen for the heartbeat again, no ultrasound. Tiffany is anxious for a picture where the baby doesn’t look like a duck. I don’t blame her. Also, from everything that we’ve read, you can tell the sex of the child at this point if you get lucky on the baby’s position during the ultrasound. Just one problem.

I probably couldn’t go with her to see the ultrasound, it would just be Tiffany and her mom so not to draw too much attention to their activities. I’m against this. I’d get to see the picture, but I think we should find out together what the sex of the baby is. There’s a chance that they wouldn’t be able to tell, but it’s not the worth it to me. I want to be able to tell people what the sex is when the time comes, not be told. I don’t think it’s that big a request. 

We’ll see what happens.