Pediatric Rotation/Baby Update

Another rotation bites the dust as Nick successfully completed Family Medicine last week! Family Medicine is the one rotation that does not require a shelf exam so his grade is based solely on his oral exam with his attending physician- which he rocked (surprise, surprise!) They actually loved him so much in the clinic that they kept teasing that they were going to fail him on purpose just to get more time with him! :)  I can't blame them either- he's a rockstar. 

Now he's onto Pediatrics. Unfortunately, Pediatrics is not one of the more popular rotations here. He kicks off this week doing inpatient. So far he's worked with LOTS of new little babies- which is fun but has also been hard for him! Seeing sick and sad little ones is not his favorite. It has already been beneficial for the SOON to-be-dad though as on his first day he has already been taught how to swaddle!

So far pediatrics hasn't been as hands-on as Nick would like. There's been a lot of standing around and shadowing. Also, a lot of "book learning" and homework. At this point, students are much more into the hands-on and less about the putting together presentations and memorizing 500 page textbooks type things.

In other news- Baby Leo is still hanging out in my belly. I swear he/she cannot be very comfortable in there! Every moment I make definitely impacts his/her position so there is constantly a lot of readjusting going on. I keep trying to tell this little one that it is much more fun out here... it's even been sunny and a bit warmer recently! We've made it to April though so it's officially BABY MONTH and we expect baby to be here anytime within the next week and a half :)

Oh, and speaking of Baby Leo, we had attempted to get Maternity pictures done for a couple weeks as Nick really wanted some. Things continuously kept falling through however and the more bloated and swollen I get the less fun doing them seemed so I finally just said screw it and told our photographer we'd go somewhere else if we wanted to get them done. Wellllllll, enter the beautiful weather we've had this week and a nagging husband who seriously really wanted pictures and on Monday we grabbed my father-in-laws camera and my sister and hit the park to take a few shots. They aren't anything super fancy, but for being done with only 20 minutes left of sunlight, following a long 8 hour work day, no time to re-do hair or make up outside of playing with it during a car ride, and being 38 1/2 weeks pregnant... I'd say we couldn't have asked for anything more! They turned out great and are perfect for us. AND FREE. Can you really beat that?!