40 weeks

My due date was yesterday, January 27, 2013. Today, on a foggy, icy Monday morning, I had to get my butt out of bed and go to work. Ugh. Not what I was expecting! I was so sure last Friday that it was my last day, and struggled to make it to 5:00 because I had worked like a mad women to get ahead, so now I have nothing of importance to do. Ugh.

The last few weeks have gone by pretty slow. At 36 weeks, I started seeing the midwives that are at the clinic I go to, since my doctor moved to Texas. There are 3 at the clinic, and they all rotate patients. That week, she checked me for Group B Strep (I came out negative) and then checked my cervix. 1 cm dilated. Stomach measured fine and heart beat was good.

Owen's New Year's kiss to his sister : )

Week 37, I went back and met with another midwife. Baby must have been laying funny, because she said I was measuring about 34 weeks. She ordered an ultrasound just to double check everything. Better to be safe than sorry. So a few days later I went to the hospital for the ultrasound. Everything measured on schedule and was told the baby was probably about 7 lbs 7 oz (+ or - a whole pound!). No good pictures out of it, because she was laying face down, but we did get confirmation that she is a girl! : )


Week 38 - Nothing new to report, just went over the ultrasound with the midwife, she measured baby and listened to her heart. Everything normal.

38 weeks

           

 Owen found these helmets in his room. His is my old motorcycle helmet, and the other is a Vikings helmet, which he said Oriana could have. So this is them wearing their helmets.

Week 39 - Same thing. My iron and blood platelets have been low again this pregnancy, but not quite as bad as last time. I've been to the lab I don't even know how many times for a complete blood count, and everything stays about the same. So the midwife told me when I come in for labor, they will do another one then, because the anesthesiologist won't do an epidural if my platelets are below 100. They have been hovering around 140, so I'll probably be in the clear. She measured baby, listened to her heart (both looked good), and then checked my cervix again. Still 1 cm and baby is high. I could've told her that! I think she's kicking my heart sometimes!!

: ) I may miss my built-in table soon!

So she had me schedule an appointment for this week. It's on Wednesday. If I'm still pregnant on Wednesday, they will hook me up to monitors for a non stress test, just to get a good reading on how she's doing in there. If she seems stressed in any way, they will send me to the hospital to be induced right away. If she's doing ok in there, they will still schedule an induction, but I'm guessing it will be for Thursday or Friday or whenever they can get me in! So it's possible I'll be having a February baby. As long as she's healthy, I don't care when she comes out! And when I found out I was pregnant and before I had gone to the doctor, I thought my due date would be early February, anyway. I think I'm just anxious because I'm caught up at work and it's a little slow right now anyway, so it would be the perfect time to be done! : ) Plus, I don't want to be induced. I'd rather go naturally. They say induced labors are harder and I'd like to have the experience of going naturally, since Owen was induced. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Dr. Owen

 A few weeks ago, Owen and I were talking about Oriana coming out. He said, "But she doesn't have no door to come out!" So I assured him that the doctor would help get her out. He said, "Do you want me to get my screwdriver?" Not sure what he thought he was going to do with that to get her out, but I told him we better let the doctor take care of it. So on Saturday, I asked him again if he was ready for Oriana to come out and he went and got his doctor kit and and told me he would get her out for me! He's so cute!