Movin like a Maniac

The past two days the nurses have started monitoring Milo once a day during a nonstress test. Basically they attach a fetal heart monitor and contraction monitor around my belly and wait for him to move. They are making sure his heart rate goes up when he is active and then comes back down. It only takes 20-30 minutes but Milo hates this. As soon as they strap on the monitor he is constantly trying to run away from it. Sometimes he succeeds and they have to chase him down. Yesterday he was not having it; if he wasn't running from the monitor he was kicking it. Then afterwards he didn't stop moving around for hours. I had never felt him so active, it was really amazing. Then later that evening they came back to just check his heart rate with the doppler (same as every night) and the baby was no where to be found. Now even though he tries to move away when monitored he can't get very far. So his heart beat has been found in the same general area for the past 8 weeks. The nurses start asking scary questions like "how long has it been since he moved?" and "he isn't usually this difficult right?" They then decide that they are sure he is fine since they hear movement but wanted to get an ultra sound just to see what was going on.

The tech comes in with a portable ultra sound machine (i.e. I can't see anything going on) and just sits there going "hmmm" "huuuh" "innnteresting..." and I am just laying there like 0_0. He finally says "oh! The baby is fine by the way, just in a weird position." Milo was sitting with his head up, back to my back, and hugging his knees to his chest. He basically positioned is heart as far from my belly as possible making it impossible to detect with any of the hand held devices the nurses use. All of the movement I was feeling earlier was clearly the result of a man on a mission. Unfortunately all his efforts were thworted because he is no match for gravity, and with me rolling around all night he plopped right back into his usual spot and was monitored again this morning. He has still been pretty active and I fear he is attempting to make his way back to his hiding spot and we will repeat this all over again later tonight.