I went to the doctor for my first weekly appointment yesterday. It started off great when another girl in the waiting room couldn't believe we were as far along as each other and told me that I looked like a Barbie doll. :) Anyway, I am not at all surprised to say that nothing has happened as far as dilation goes even though I've had some killer contractions. This is just more evidence that I will never do natural labor. Ever. I was a little surprised that I'd lost 2 lbs, but with Thanksgiving being today (another post to come), I'm sure that is now cancelled, but it was nice to have not gained 2 or 3 like every other time. Baby is head down, which is good. But I only measured 34 weeks. I've been measuring too small for a while now, so this is where that becomes a concern. But not really because it happens every pregnancy for me. He just says I'm a small person with a small frame and I'm not going to have a huge baby, but he still has to check and make SURE baby is growing correctly via ultrasound. The other reason we did this is because...and here's the clincher...the hospital is basically booked for the first 2 weeks of December. And Dr Collins is looking for a reason to trump someone else so that I can get in. Had the ultrasound showed that the baby was less than 10%, he would have done it like now, because that shows baby isn't growing like he should be. But he measured just fine--6 lbs or so--and actually 2 days ahead of his 12/12/12 due date. So he told me not to panic and that we'd find a way in. That was just where he was starting. He called the hospital and put me down as an alternate on a few different days, whatever that means,. But Dr Collins is also going out of town from the 6th through the 9th, so there's another issue. I don't really want to go into labor. I never have, but right now it's even more important that I know I've done everything I can for Sage before I walk out the door. No one knows how to care for her except for me, Travis, and the school nurse (and that can be debatable depending on the day. Not that she's not wonderful to Sage, but she does call with a question now and then). And no one really understands it like me. And Sage has expressed a bit of concern over anyone else doing it. SO, I need a planned appointment this time more than ever. I'm not panicking as of now. And I don't have plans to panic because Dr Collins seemed confident on knowing that there are ways around being booked up. So...I don't have an exact induction date yet, but we should have something soon. And hopefully, we'll have that name everyone is asking about by then. Travis' aunt asked him if it was going to be weird. Ha, no we're going to have a Sage, Jaggar and Ben. Speaking of Jaggar, I think he's starting to process there's a baby in there after all. I don't think we'll have any jealousy issues, do you?
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