Fun and Games

The girls decided to have a little fun at the expense of my nurse this morning, much to their mother’s consternation. They somehow managed to position themselves just perfectly so when the nurse tried to monitor their heart rates, she was registering the exact same rate for both babies, which is statistically impossible. She moved the dopplers all over my belly, vainly trying to separate the two rates. No matter where she placed the dopplers, the rates registered as identical. The poor nurse, who also happened to be one of the head nurses and thus very experienced in the art of baby monitoring, was bewildered! After ten minutes of frustration, she decided to call in the reinforcements. She left the room and returned with one of my favorite nurses in tow, who was laughing at the girls’ shenanigans. This nurse calmly and slowly started sliding the dopplers into the position where we find the girls’ heartbeats 99% of the time (and where the previous nurse had been focusing her efforts), and lo and behold – in thirty seconds, we were registering two separate, beautiful rates! The head nurse shook her head in disbelief, and the other nurse just winked at me and thanked my girls for making her look good. I still don’t quite understand how my girls pulled off this stunt, but it made for an exciting morning monitoring session! And it also reinforced my theory that they know which nurses make me the most relaxed and comfortable. My suspicion is that the girls decided the first nurse would make an excellent target of their hide-and-go-seek campaign, but knew they better behave for the second, because they wanted her to be sure to come back and play again! These girls are going to be a handful – well, two handfuls!