My very kind sister in law has loaned me a fetal doppler monitor that I can use at home for the last half of my pregnancy to listen in on G’s little heartbeat whenever I get anxious. And between my previous pregnancy losses and the fact that I feel a lot less movement in this pregnancy due to the position of my placenta, I get anxious a lot.
It’s a nifty little machine, and this morning I tried it out for the first time. After a little trial and error, I was able to pick up the swoosh, swoosh, swoosh of G’s heartbeat. Very reassuring.
Of course C wanted to “help” by holding the boxy part of the machine while I moved the doppler wand around my belly. As she held it, she offered this rather bizarre observation, apropos of nothing: “If you push the emergency button, a cowboy will come.”
She repeated this several times.
I didn’t know she even knew what a cowboy is. Or an emergency button. But maybe I’ll try it sometime. You know, if I ever find myself in emergency need of a cowboy.
I'll be your cowboy.
My kids have always described the rapid clop-clop of baby's heartbeat to a horse galloping… maybe that's where she gets the cowboy thing?
The swooshing would be either your or the placenta's sounds, though.
Jon, you're so sweet! Miss you guys!
Damn. So THAT's where the Emergency Cowboy Button is. I knew there had to be one somewhere, and Lord knows I could've used it a couple-three times in recent years.
Catherine – *we* aren't the ones who are moving.
Well we're not moving as soon as we thought either, so there!
(Details later; it's not a bad thing!)
I heard the comment about the emergency button and the cowboy several times today. Not knowing she said it during the monitor use, I associated it to our trip to the hospital last week when Pop was having the transfusion. As we came down the elevator, C pushed the emergency button (the biggest, brightest one on the panel, of course). After hearing telephone dialing, a mechanical voice said, "Elevator 2 at LeConte Medical Center is experiencing difficulties. Please send assistance at once." We rushed to the information desk to head off the cowboy and didn't see him at all!
That's so cute. I love the world children live in.