Relax! Non Stress Test

Today I had my first non stress test of many more to come. There was a fetal heart monitor for each baby and a monitor for contractions. So I looked like the following picture, only with one more monitor strapped to me and a much bigger belly.

Everything looked wonderful. The heartbeats were great, there was lots of baby movement, and there were no significant contractions detected. Sometimes the top monitor slipped and when I would readjust it, it would look like a contraction, but it was just me messing with the monitor. I let the nurse know, so it wasn't a problem. After two hours of monitoring, I really wished for a non stress test like this picture:

But I could only imagine this in my head. I had some blood drawn as well, but they wouldn't release me until the blood results came back. The lab was backed up so it took another 2 hours to get the results. I was there for 4 hours, chilling in a shared hospital room with a knocked up teen and her dysfunctional family members. It was fun to listen to them for the first 10 minutes. After 2 hours of listening to them I wanted to throw something. I tried my best to escape back to my imaginary oasis in my head. Difficult, but I managed to block them out.

So I get to do this test again on Friday, but no blood will be drawn. Hopefully it will go much quicker on Friday. I will bring a snack though, just in case. I am really wanting to make it to my next goal, which is 37 weeks. If I make it to Sunday I will have success reaching goal #3.