Posted on 01.07.10 by Sharon Lin, DO

One last inpatient service as a second year before I spend two more months in outpatient in my third trimester of pregnancy.  I can't believe R-2 year is halfway over. Having stacked several inpatient rotations today, I am just flying through like a mad woman - with my huge belly swaying up and down the halls. Somehow I've been blessed with little fatigue and a huge appetite for anything edible. Amazingly, I am still grateful for our comp'ed cafeteria food! 

My partner says I look like Santa Claus the way my scrubs ride high on my belly.  I suppose I need suspenders to keep them from falling completely off since most days my gigantic belly sticks out like Pebbles Flintstone's.

Other than when I catch my own reflection, I am still in huge denial of being pregnant.  Residency seems to dominate most of everyone's lives and thoughts, and it will be interesting to have a competing interest when I become a mom. The only thing momma-like I've done was when I went to a holiday craft fair recently and found an egg necklace booth.  There were these adorable quail egg necklaces that can be carefully crafted with small scenes inside them.  You can't even imagine the joy I had when I found this booth and brought home one with a scene of two quails over their nest of eggs.  Ahhh... nesting. I am SO loving the nesting. It's so silly - yet so, so satifsying.

I am ready for a whole lot of nesting. Even with a Q 4 in patient schedule, I'm making precious time to nest, decorate, cook, celebrate, and simply enjoy sleeping in a cozy bed.