So just a little update on our little BabyBot ... I just had a doctors
appt this morning and things look exactly the same as last week. I am still 1
cm dilated, my cervix is nice and soft, and she is super far down. Both the
doctor last week and the one this week said this implies that the labor
shouldn't be too difficult, which is just about the best news they could give
me! Since the baby is way down and the cervix is soft, i shouldn't have any
trouble dilating or getting the baby into position.
She did say my blood pressure was a little toward the upper end of normal (120/90) but it shouldn't be anything to worry about. Jemmas heart rate is normal (upper 150s) and I am still measuring right on track. So everything still looks good. I have been gaining a little more weight lately, i have gained 31 lbs. But I am sort of at a point at the end of pregnancy where if I want to eat something, I do, so that really isn't surprising. :) Plus I have been craving carbs non stop! cereal, waffles, pasta, it's all good right now! I did bring a salad for lunch yesterday and today though, so hopefully that will help. But I also ate an entire bag of peach gummies yesterday which probably counteracted the salad. :) And today I ate my entire lunch by 2pm and by 5pm I was really hungry, so I went and got a Snickers bar out of the machine. I am not being very good lately …
They had me schedule an ultrasound for Tuesday in case she hasn't come by then to check on the progress. To make sure the fluid isn't too low or the baby is too big or anything.
Honestly, since it's so close to the weekend at this point, I wouldn't mind having another weekend to relax and do stuff around the house before she arrives. So I'm kinda hoping she holds off until next week. :)
She did say my blood pressure was a little toward the upper end of normal (120/90) but it shouldn't be anything to worry about. Jemmas heart rate is normal (upper 150s) and I am still measuring right on track. So everything still looks good. I have been gaining a little more weight lately, i have gained 31 lbs. But I am sort of at a point at the end of pregnancy where if I want to eat something, I do, so that really isn't surprising. :) Plus I have been craving carbs non stop! cereal, waffles, pasta, it's all good right now! I did bring a salad for lunch yesterday and today though, so hopefully that will help. But I also ate an entire bag of peach gummies yesterday which probably counteracted the salad. :) And today I ate my entire lunch by 2pm and by 5pm I was really hungry, so I went and got a Snickers bar out of the machine. I am not being very good lately …
They had me schedule an ultrasound for Tuesday in case she hasn't come by then to check on the progress. To make sure the fluid isn't too low or the baby is too big or anything.
Honestly, since it's so close to the weekend at this point, I wouldn't mind having another weekend to relax and do stuff around the house before she arrives. So I'm kinda hoping she holds off until next week. :)
I also brought up the concern of having a 9 lb baby like Denise and the
doctor seemed to think this was a valid concern and asked a bunch of questions
about if Denise measured big (she didn’t) or if she had very bad tearing. She
also implied that if I am not doing any more walking than what I’m used to,
that it won’t help progress labor, which was a huge disappointment! I thought
the fact that I have been very active this whole time that I would go into
labor early, but apparently it doesn’t work that way. Only if I’m doing more
this week than what I’m used to will cause the labor to progress further. Oh
well … that means I’m going to sit on my butt this weekend.
I also bought a Groupon today for Sears portrait studio to get newborn
photos! I’m really excited! I will have to schedule that right after giving
birth because they suggest you should do them within 5-10 days of birth.
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