40 wks and 2 days give or take how you want to count it. Here's the update from today's doctor visit:
Despite our best efforts with walking a lot, tabasco and a few other natural birth inducers we have showed no additional progress with getting this baby to be born. She seems a bit stubborn, must be taking after Dada in the personality department. :-)
Despite no progress the appointment was pretty eventful since low and behold, my blood pressure was sky high. So we had more blood work to check preeclampsia levels (awaiting results as of now), a ultrasound to check fluid levels for baby and our first non-stress test. Fluids were good on ultrasound and baby actually showed us a bit of her adorable little face this time. She has pretty long eyelashes, some very cute lips and what looks like a nice button nose. She has some hair but it was hard to tell how much or how dark. :-) Of course we did not get a very clear print-out as usual because she moved just in time to keep her elusive reputation intact. Then she promptly went to sleep...which was not a good thing for the non-stress test. What was supposed to be 20 minutes on the monitor ended up taking well over an hour. They had to feed us some juice and crackers to get her to wake up and start moving again for the test. In the end, all looked well and we were able to head back home without being induced.
So we are still waiting for her to make her appearance on her own. If we make it to Monday we have another ultrasound appointment to check her growth, measure how big she actually is, if she'll fit, etc. We'll also have another non-stress test then. If all is well on Monday, we see our regular dr. on Tuesday. We are tentatively scheduled for induction on Friday the 24th if baby does not make her appearance before. This is our Dr's on-call day but if things are normal at Tuesday's appt. the doctor is agreeable with moving the date back further (the Braun family history of 2 wks late may play out again). If we move it back we'd likely deliver with a different doc, which is fine. If things aren't normal we'll be induced sooner. And...depending on how mama actually feels next week we may keep the 24th. It's all still up in the air but we know this pregnancy journey will come to end soon! We are anxious to meet her and to see her face in person since we've seen so little of her on the scans! We'll keep you posted!
Despite our best efforts with walking a lot, tabasco and a few other natural birth inducers we have showed no additional progress with getting this baby to be born. She seems a bit stubborn, must be taking after Dada in the personality department. :-)
Despite no progress the appointment was pretty eventful since low and behold, my blood pressure was sky high. So we had more blood work to check preeclampsia levels (awaiting results as of now), a ultrasound to check fluid levels for baby and our first non-stress test. Fluids were good on ultrasound and baby actually showed us a bit of her adorable little face this time. She has pretty long eyelashes, some very cute lips and what looks like a nice button nose. She has some hair but it was hard to tell how much or how dark. :-) Of course we did not get a very clear print-out as usual because she moved just in time to keep her elusive reputation intact. Then she promptly went to sleep...which was not a good thing for the non-stress test. What was supposed to be 20 minutes on the monitor ended up taking well over an hour. They had to feed us some juice and crackers to get her to wake up and start moving again for the test. In the end, all looked well and we were able to head back home without being induced.
So we are still waiting for her to make her appearance on her own. If we make it to Monday we have another ultrasound appointment to check her growth, measure how big she actually is, if she'll fit, etc. We'll also have another non-stress test then. If all is well on Monday, we see our regular dr. on Tuesday. We are tentatively scheduled for induction on Friday the 24th if baby does not make her appearance before. This is our Dr's on-call day but if things are normal at Tuesday's appt. the doctor is agreeable with moving the date back further (the Braun family history of 2 wks late may play out again). If we move it back we'd likely deliver with a different doc, which is fine. If things aren't normal we'll be induced sooner. And...depending on how mama actually feels next week we may keep the 24th. It's all still up in the air but we know this pregnancy journey will come to end soon! We are anxious to meet her and to see her face in person since we've seen so little of her on the scans! We'll keep you posted!
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