The Canceled Cancellation

So, I went for my appointment and the test went well. The nurse midwife thinks the baby may be a 9lb baby and definitely not as big as the ultrasound was showing. (Thank heavens someone agrees with me!) She sent me right to see the doctor for the consult. I didn't have time to go get Nathan and the consult was at the hospital. He gave the go ahead. I'm headed for an induction, hopefully, at 6:30am. The same time I fall back asleep since being up at 3. Yet another baby who has decided that would be a great time to be awake.

Update

I went to my appointment this morning with the nurse-midwife. The first thing she told me is that they do NOT want to give me a c-section and basically we're going to do everything we can to make sure that a c-section doesn't happen. So, I'll end up doing my non-stress test with them versus going to the doctor's office which I'm thrilled about. It means I won't make Nathan come. After being at the doctors office on Friday there is almost NO way they could get me in there without him. If all goes well with that test, which I have no reason to believe it would not, I will just have my consult on Wednesday with the doctor. Nathan, of course, has to go to that one. It even sounds like I have an appointment with the doctor who is most likely to let me have an induction. If something is wrong with the test there is a 30% chance that the results are wrong (Not very comforting.) and then I'd have to have a contraction stress test that has to be done at the Doctor's office. They'd give me an IV with a little bit of pitocin just to see how the baby reacts to the contractions. I'm not planning on having to do that. So basically, lots of good news this time around. Keep your fingers crossed for me for tomorrow.

In the meantime...the nurse midwives gave me a list of different herbal stuff to try to just go into labor naturally. Wouldn't that be great.

Canceled

For reasons completely beyond me, they cancled my induction. Now, instead, I have a whole slew of tests to go through. Not to worry, the baby is doing great and is perfectly healthy. They did another ultrasound yesterday and now I'll be doing a stress test, counseling, and we'll just have to see what happens. Let's just say that the ultrasound technician goofed and the doctor that was in charge yesterday seems scissor happy. I'm praying for a miracle that I'll just go into labor now. That would just solve all my problems it seems like.

8 Days

I'm scheduled to be induced on the 30th. I wasn't really expecting that, so my list that I thought I'd for sure have at least 2 weeks plus a couple days to get done...well, I don't have that much time. Here's to at least finishing organizing the house. I just have one closet left. :)

2 Weeks 5 Days - Too Short and Too Long

I'm still here. I'm still pregnant. This has actually been a fairly good pregnancy. I've been struggling with a cold lately, thus the sudden drought in posting. But, I feel fabulous now, thanks to modern medicine. At 32 weeks I was measuring big (4 weeks big to be precise) so they sent me in for an ultrasound. There they told me the baby was measuring in the 50th percentile (ya right!) and was right on time. So, let's just say that I've never had a good experience with ultrasounds and I don't trust them at all. And they'll admit they can be up to a pound off. (We'll just take it for granted that every time they do an ultrasound on me they are most likely to be a pound off.) It wasn't a complete waste of my time though because I did get to see the baby.

The girls are SO excited for the baby to come. Meredith can't stop talking about it. I told her she was having a friend come over and she says, "Oh (very disappointed), I want the baby to come." And other times she says, "the baby's going to come and see me." The girls loved this picture. Emily thought it was so funny that she was blowing bubbles. ;)

Here's her face. She still doesn't have a name. We were not so indecisive with our other two girls. We have a couple names we've tossed a few names back and forth. The two most common being Rebekah and Kristina, but I won't be surprised if we end up bringing home a baby named something else completely. We do have some other names on our list that we're not sure if we really like or not.

In the bottom two pictures you can see a lot of fuzziness on the top of her head. The ultrasound tech said the baby has lots of hair. It doesn't really look like we're having a bald baby. :) Not that any of my babies have been bald.

Now that it's nearing the end of the pregnancy people are always asking, "when is the baby due", "how much longer", "ready for the baby?" and I'm thinking "Ahhhh! Don't remind me. I have a to-do list a mile long that I'd like to get through before the baby gets here." It's not just at church though. Precious Meredith is asking all the time, "when is the baby coming", "Is the baby coming?" It definitely makes me a little eager to be done when I'm being asked all the time, which is going to make the pregnancy too long. On the other hand, I still want to hang up pictures and things in the baby's room, make freezer meals, clean out closets, etc. making the rest of this pregnancy way too short.

On the plus side, I'm no longer measuring 4 wks big. :) They told me on Monday (was that really only 4 days ago?) that I was measuring at 38 wks.