I worried a lot the next week about the jump I did and if jumping was what made me sick. Is that what made me sick? Had it damaged my child and if I did it again could it cause damage to the child so it couldn’t be undone. I swore to myself no matter what it took I wouldn’t jump. I also worried if my child was going to be a jumper. What if he was say 16 months old and jumped. Would I know where he went and find him? All these scenarios would go through my head. It was driving me crazy. I finally had to say to myself that I would have to cross that bridge when I got there. Matthew had his 10am meetings at our house. He said the office was too small. He still spent a lot of time in the office working and sometimes at night I would hear him talking to someone. Mom got a baby book and put the ultrasound picture in it. She insisted on taking a picture of my stomach to go with it. She wrote dates and how big my stomach measured. I let her do what ever she wanted because she was so happy. She loved buying me clothes and having me wear them. I was happy and Matthew was very happy. He had a wife who loved him with a baby on the way. He had his work and a team he could depend on. Matthew went off to do a job a couple of times and would come back like it was just a business trip. I didn’t ask what he was doing and I didn’t want to know. We had a great time together when he was home and I couldn’t ask for a better mother in-law. I really worked at the gym because I wanted to be really healthy and strong when the baby came. I thought that if I am healthy the baby will be healthy. The days went fast.
At the end of the three months and I was somewhere near or in my sixth month we were sitting in the living room when Steve one of Matthew’s team came in and whispered in Matthew’s ear. Matthew told me something important had come up and he had to go. He gave me a kiss and the two men went off. As Matthew was leaving he was on his phone calling Amy and telling her to come down and sit with me. In a few minutes Amy showed up.
The next day that doctor came again to do another ultrasound. Matthew wasn’t there so his mother went with me to the medical center. Everything went the same as before. The doctor did measurements on the baby and did other testing. He showed Matthew’s Mom and I that the baby was growing just as the baby should. He gave Mom another picture for the book. He told everyone that everything was great with the baby and he would come back again soon.