in truth, not a whole lot. it was a good appointment - the baby is head down, back towards my belly (mostly, though it rolls a bit from side to side). heartbeat still in the 140s. the doc said she estimates that nibs weighs about 7.5-7.75 pounds. yowza! so i think if i get to 40 or 41 weeks, we will probably be looking at an 8.5 pounder. maybe a little bigger? i think 8-8.5 sounds good....
anyway...she also said i should start re-training my brain to think of november 12 (41 weeks) as my due date because that way i won't be so discouraged if the 5th comes and goes with no event. haha. i wish they had told me that 2 months ago, because now that i'm in to days left, i don't think there's any way to NOT be at least a teensy bit disappointed if s/he is still in there as the due date comes and goes.
i didn't get checked for progress at the appointment yesterday. my practice will check at 38 and a half weeks if i request it or am showing signs of eminent labor, but in general they will wait until my due date to do any internal exams. the rationale for them is that it doesn't really help anything. if they check and i'm making progress, i could still be 2 weeks away from going into labor, so it doesn't really help to know that and then have to keep waiting. alternatively, they could check and i could be nowhere and i could still have a baby within 24 hours, so better to not disappoint me for no reason. anyway...i am a little curious, but not so curious that i needed to be examined yesterday. we have our 40 week appointment next wednesday, the third, and i will definitely want to know then. if i haven't had a baby yet. fingers crossed.
so that's it for today, i think. i slept some last night and am trying to make myself take it easy more and more. today is my last strenuous day of work and i'm hoping to do some working from home for parts of the rest of this week.
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