Here's what else is cool: Peaches and my brother had themselves a healthy baby boy this weekend! He is adorable and everyone is doing well. If we weren't already envious of a lady who got PG after 2 months off the pill.. get this - she went from the first real contractions to holding her little baby in about 8 hours. After a few hours of labor at home, they raced to the hospital (as instructed) once her contractions were 5 minutes apart. They had the baby within 45 minutes! No time for an epidural or anything. They're lucky they made it!As for me, I'm at 37.5 weeks and hangin' on. One of my OBs realized that I'm 40 years old and so I need to come in twice a week for these non-stress tests (NST). You ladies under 35 don't need to get these, right? It's pretty nifty. You lounge in a recliner for ~20 minutes with two sensors strapped to your abdomen. One sensor tracks the baby's heart rate (see my printout below) and the second records any uterine contractions. Also, I push a button whenever I feel the baby move (vertical arrow on chart). What they want to see is your baby moving and then her heart rate going up temporarily after that. If the baby's not moving, or if her heart rate doesn't react to movement, then this is a sign of fetal distress. (Mine looks good.) The doc said that I was having a lot of small uterine contractions, but nothing major.. nothing I could feel. She did an internal exam and said that I'm not effaced or dilated at all, so we're holding steady.
So.. this week I'll be working at home and I have OB appointments on Tuesday and Friday. The following week I'll have a Monday appointment and then c-section on Wednesday. If we make it that far. Not that I'm having any signs of labor or anything -I'm just super huge. This week I measured 1-2 weeks ahead. I'm still skinny(ish), so I look like a thin woman with a basketball under her shirt. It's comical and really quite uncomfortable. We've located all the essential baby gear in the basement and today I washed Waffle Girl's newborn-sized clothes. We're ready anytime! Right?!
That's a cool report! I hope I get to have one of those in a while!!
ReplyDeleteGook luck with the NSTs! I had them 2x/week while on bedrest for hypertension/preeclampsia (age=37). Try to schedule them for a time of day when baby's awake - I had mine usually at 10:30 or 11:00 while my 2-year-old was at grandma's, so it was easiest from the childcare perspective, but it also happened to be when the baby liked to nap. I got my belly "buzzed" a lot by the nurse - a loud noise to wake him up - and I'd also drink juice and eat chocolate right before my appointments, but regardless one time I was there over an hour trying to get enough movement. He was fine, just sleepy and quiet.
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Woooo hooooo. Sounds like everything is going well. Can't remember if this is your first c-section or if you had one with the waffle girl. I can only recommend getting up and walking as soon as possible and much as you can. I think that helped me a lot. I wish you all the best and good health for Wednesday.
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