38 Weeks

I had my 38 week check up yesterday. Baby is still head down and I am measuring right on schedule. I am dilated 3 cm which is progress from last week so hopefully it means this little boy is going to come soon. If he doesn't come on his own before May 7th my Dr is going to schedule me for an induction. Part of me would like to experience going into labor on my own, but given the choice I decided I'd rather be induced if it doesn't happen on its own. So we'll see what happens....

This pregnancy my perinatologist has had me get an ultrasound every 6 weeks to check on baby and his growth due to my family history and previous pre-eclampsia with Avery. So I had my last one this morning. He finally gave us a little peek of his face! Every other ultrasound he is either in a weird position that we can't see his face at all or he is covering it with his hand or foot. But, for two seconds today he moved his hand for us to get a picture! Isn't he cute? :)

Last night Josh and I went on a tour of the hospital {mercy gilbert}. I delivered Avery there, but I thought it would be nice to have a little refresher. And since I had an unusual experience with Avery it was nice to be reminded of where to go if I do happen to go into labor on my own. The hospital is fairly new but has had a couple changes from my last delivery there. My favorite change is what they call "nap time." If you don't know, I am a huge fan of naps. I LOVE them. So to have a time of day designated as nap time is like a dream come true. Now I know it doesn't necessarily mean I will be getting a nap during that time since I'll have a newborn, but just the thought of it is great. It is from 3-5pm and it just means that the nurses or other hospital staff won't be bothering us during that time unless we request them to come in our room. Awesome, right? Another thing the hospital does which is nice is called tea time. The senior citizens who volunteer there come around before nap time and pass out little danishes and tea. I don't drink tea, but it is still a nice little perk the hospital offers. Oh, and all the rooms are equipped with skype. This is new since Avery. Even if they did have it with Avery I wouldn't have wanted to do it because I was so swollen from my pre-eclampsia. So we'll see how it goes this time.

I had my baby shower this last Tuesday. I didn't get any pictures. Oops. I got mostly clothes and diapers.

Well, I hope my next post is announcing baby boy {who is still nameless BTW}, but if not I will post about my 39 week check up next week.

37 weeks

Well, it finally happened--I had to take my ring off. The swelling is finally bad enough that it gets too tight sometimes. I am happy I made it this far without much swelling, but with the weather warming up it gets pretty bad at times. So this is the longest I have been pregnant! If you don't remember when I was pregnant with Avery I got really sick with a fever and went to the ER a little after 35 weeks. They found out I had kidney infection and pre-eclampsia and was induced after a couple days of being in the hospital. I had her at 36 weeks. Part of me was hoping my body would "remember" that I delivered at 36 weeks and I could be done with pregnancy...but, here I sit still pregnant. Not too much longer though. I was a little nervous for my appointment this week because we were checking to see how baby was positioned. He is head down!!! Hopefully, he will stay that way and hopefully everything continues to go well!

36 weeks

Well, I had my 36 week appointment yesterday. During my last ultrasound a few weeks ago baby was breech so my dr wanted to check to see if he moved to head down. She found his heartbeat pretty low so she was very hopeful he had turned around. But, when she checked she couldn't feel his head.  She tried to feel how he was positioned by pushing on my belly but that was unsuccessful too. I will be checked again next week. If we still can't tell I will have another ultrasound to see how he is hanging out in there. If he is breech still I can either choose to have an external version or just schedule my c-section for 39 weeks. If we find him head down I will scheduled to be induced at 39 weeks. Either way, that is only 3 weeks away! It is getting close!