round and round and round she goes and where she stops nobody knows

Well, it looks like we're going to have another spin on that merry go round that I wish could be called pre-natal care but really looks more like a huge game of hide and go seek where Baby is currently holding all the points. My brothers-in-law have already proclaimed that they refuse to participate in any future hide and seek games with Baby on the basis that she is already too darn good at it. However, much as I perhaps should be pleased at this early show of skill and dexterity, I should very much like for Baby to perhaps get the hiccups or knock over the broom handle and bring us all running to the closet before she decides to try hiding under the bed. (Yes, Metaphore, you've said "Uncle" three times quite clearly now, and I shall let you go.) Sufficing to say that later this week we will be getting and ultrasound and subsequently talking to a gynecologist who was recommended to us by both a friend and my MIL. Hopefully that will clear things up for us. This same friend also (after listening with her own dopplar and doing a bit of feeling) suggested that I have an anterior placenta which would make it almost impossible for a midwife to detect a heart rate with her hand held unit. However it wouldn't interfere with an ultrasound. As for the blood work...any woman can tell you stories she's heard about women who simply don't test well. I don't know why it happens, but it does. Anyway, muscle testing supports the anterior placenta theory, so we'll see what happens when we go in this week. Like I said, hopefully she knocks over the broom handle or something. I'm beyond ready to hear "Woman, didn't you know you're pregnant?!"