Routine Maintenance

"W" has our hospital routine down pat.  He knows how to get to where we're going and where all the entertainment (fish tank) is.  Today was another doppler ultrasound and the usual NST.  The doppler went really well, the Dr. said the blood flow through the umbilical cord looked really good.  Then she said it looked a lot better than last week and didn't spend nearly the same amount of time checking it.  They said it looked good last week, too.  I don't know why they aren't 100% honest with me.  Anyway, it looked good today, that's all that matters.  She said she would "sneak" in an unofficial measurement of ET, she wasn't supposed to measure him until next week.  She didn't mention what she was measuring, it looked like the head, but I think the abdomen is what's measuring small.  She said he was measuring 4 weeks small.  She also said that he had measured 5 weeks too small last week.  (She must have "snuck" in a measurement last week too, but didn't tell me.)  She called the difference from last week to this week "consistent", but I consider it good, a week's a week, right?  The Dr. said that she loved how active he is, this is a very good sign.  The NST was pretty much a joke.  ET was not having any of it.  The minute the nurse got the monitor to pick up his heart rate, he would kick it off. She managed to catch a few "accelerations", enough for him to pass, but we were there a lot longer than 20 minutes.  My next appointment is on Wednesday, to see if I've had any more belly growth.