38 weeks 4 days
October 15, 2009
38 weeks 4 days
Another Baby Update
October 12, 2009
I know this is a little late, as I’m reporting on information I received from this last Friday’s baby appointment, but it’s been a particularly stressful end of the week/weekend. A neighbor’s tree landed on our house after taking out the neighbor’s garage. It was a 300-year-old oak tree, and it caused more damage than we had thought–it ended up causing some leaking into our den (which is also my office) that we didn’t discover until during a rainstorm on Friday. Everyone is fine, and the house is finally on the mend, thanks to some speedy work by our landlord, his insurance company, and a great general contractor. I’ll try to post more about that later.
Now for happy baby news!!
As of Friday, October 9th, she was measuring in at around 7 lb. 1 oz., which is around 38 weeks, and considering I was 37 weeks, 5 days, we’re right on track! She’s very healthy with a heart rate in the upper 130s/140s (it always jumps up a little when they’re getting the reading)–she’s consistently in the 140s when they measure, so that’s great! She’s still head-down, of course, and she’s still facing my right side. She’s pretty tightly snuggled in there, but she still can get my belly moving quite a bit when she starts moving her arms and legs around. I think that’s about all she can get going these days!
As for me, I continue to have feet and ankle swelling on and off, but my blood pressure is great, and I’m “a good” 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced. Of course, I could be like this for the next two weeks, but considering I wasn’t dilated at all and only starting to thin out the week before, this is definitely steady progress, according to my midwife. She said she wouldn’t be surprised if Baby Girl makes her big appearance sometime this week. We’re not holding our breath, but we’re keenly aware of the fact that she could honestly and truly come any day now.
We’ll keep you all posted!
