Really?!?! 38 weeks already?!?! When did that happen? It has been such an easy, wonderful pregnancy! I am truly blessed and lucky!! I did have quite the cold for about 10 days but if that's the worst I've felt over the past 9 months I really can't complain.
Lucky is doing great. I had a ultrasound and biophysical profile (bpp) done on February 3 and he/she passed the test with flying colors! Basically the baby needs to do 30 seconds of breathing and a number of movements/stretches within 30 minutes...well our genius baby had them all accomplished within 15 minutes! Then they did a weight/growth check and estimated Lucky to be 6 lbs 2 oz. - which was a little alarming to Walleye and myself as we were only 34w 2d!
Then the next two weeks they did a non-stress test (nst)on Lucky...and wouldn't you know he/she totally takes after his/her father and made it hard for the poor nurses to get a good read. Lucky didn't want anyone up in his/her business and would move every time the heartbeat monitor would pick up the heartbeat. Walleye is such a private person and it seems as though Lucky is following in his footsteps. The second nst I felt so bad for the nurse because it took three nurses and the OB an hour to finally get the monitor at the right spot...
Monday we had another u/s and bpp with weight/growth scan. And once again our genius baby passed the test with flying colors in about 15 minutes! The weight/growth scan estimates the baby at 7 lbs 4 oz. I was more than a little relieved. I thought for sure Lucky was going to be over 8 lbs with two more weeks to go! Granted these weights can be off (plus or minus) by 1 to 1.5 lbs so we could still have a 9+ pounder! Either way if this baby is huge I am blaming it all on Walleye as he was the one who the entire pregnancy kept saying he was hoping for a 10 pounder. He says he was only joking but I am not completely convinced.
I also had my first cervical check on Monday. Why or why didn't anyone tell me how painful those were! It was seriously sooo much worse than a typical pap smear. It was horrible. Unfortunately it was all for not....not dilated and no effacement. :(
The OB did talk to us about the real possibility that Lucky very well might come late. For some reason that was really hard on me. I don't know why because I am feeling good and still enjoying being pregnant but I for some reason really had my hopes up that we would have this baby sooner rather than later... In the end I don't really care when it is so long as baby is healthy and I just need to keep telling myself that!
