It's morning, and here I sit in my enormous glory! It's been a pretty good pregnancy. Nothing to truly complain about, well, aside from my fat swollen feet that are sore. But otherwise I've been really blessed to be overall healthy. My thyroid has managed to stay under control with medication, my blood sugar has remained perfect & my anemia is easily controlled by a supplement of iron a day on top of my prenatals. When I stop and think about the other women out there who struggle with pregnancy complications I say a little prayer for them and thank God at the same time that I'm not one of them.
Baby has surely gotten bigger, and is still as active as ever. It's amusing when people ask me when I'm due to have her, a lot of them say 'any day now huh?'. To which I smile and reply, 'hopefully!'. And many people seem to think it's cute to inform me that she hasn't dropped, or so they think. The way I carry it doesn't look that way. I am always contracting my abs to hold her up, and myself actually. So it makes my bulge look like it's riding higher than it is. Once I relax and press down on the top of my belly that's all my skin, fat and bloat it becomes very obvious how low she really is. As my hips & pelvis, they'll groan and tell you it's true!!
Tomorrow is my next OB appointment. As I posted previously I had an ultrasound to measure her to see how big she really is. Tomorrow I should get the results. The odd thing is when I have tests run the nurse always calls me to give me the results. This is the first time she hasn't. Either she forgot, was out sick or it's something the Dr needs to discuss with me. Whatever it is, I can't wait till tomorrow to find out. Once I do I will of course update my 2 readers of this blog! :o)
Here's what I've been tolling around in my little brain since this big baby issue came up. Is she really big or am I further along? Let's examine the facts: I got the positive result right after Christmas. Then got it confirmed via ultrasound on the 8th of January. Because of my hectic crazy work schedule during the holidays I wasn't has good about keeping track of dates, so when they asked the famous question, 'last cycle?' my reply, in November, probably mid Nov, around the 15th. I know for a fact it wasn't Thanksgiving week or after that. According to my 1st US my estimated due date with my dates was 8/21/08, but the machines estimate was 9/3/08. A big difference. During the fetal survey at about 4 months (per their dates) it said 9/1/08, but it did jump around a lot depending on what she was measuring on the baby. Seems they always take the later dates! But here's where it gets interesting. At that US, they took 3D type images of the baby. You could very easily see her face, her features, her ears, finger, you name it. I didn't think much about it. But my Dr said it was amazing they could get such a good shot of her face because babies at that stage are too little and not developed enough to get that good of an image of the face. At the time I thought it was just dumb luck. Now....well...not so sure. So the last ultrasound she got measured up again. This time was not so easy since she's so much bigger! We did get to see her foot on her forehead! And the new estimated due date per the machine was 8/22/08. One day later than what I had said in the beginning.
I don't know. So I'll find out what my Dr has to say tomorrow about it all and negotiate things with her. I don't feel that she will stay in there too much longer. It could be wishful thinking or intuition. Even my mother said the same thing. We both had the same week in mind as well, which is weird because we hadn't really compared notes much and we both had the same thought! Just wish us luck as usual and I'll post an update this week!!
Hugs & love to all! God Bless!!
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