The night leading up to this appointment was insane. I was woken up around 12:30 to my cat fighting another cat on our porch. I opened the door just in time to see the neighbors cat take off up our driveway, but my cat (Winston) was still rolling and flopping around on the porch like he was fighting something. It was insane! I wasn't sure if he was having some kind of seizure or what, but he rolled and flopped until he eventually fell off the porch. At that point, he was just lying there on the ground on his side, not moving. I seriously started thinking he was paralyzed or something, because he was just so _still_. I woke my husband up to come inspect him and our cat eventually got up and walked away, but he still seemed a bit off. I've seen him a couple of times today and he seems to be walking/acting fine, so I have no idea what happened last night....
Anyway, on to my appointment! I had my ultrasound first. I love the tech there and she had me laughing my butt off, as usual. Declan is head down!! Yay! I never felt the "big roll" that so many talk about, but I'm certainly not complaining. What's funny is that even though he's head down, he's still in the "frank" position with his feet up over his head. I'm probably going to have a time keeping those little leggies down when he's born. :) Everything looked perfect. Fluid levels were normal and he's actually measuring a bit big at 6lbs already! He's still measuring length wise about 3-4 days behind like he's done from the beginning. At this point 3-4 days doesn't mean much, other than he might be a bit shorter (but chunkier..haha). I always watch closely when she's measuring body parts and with one measurement of his belly, she got 39w 3d!! Since both of his hands and feet, plus the cord, all in front of his face she couldn't get a clear picture of his face. I did see a quick glimpse of some massively chubby cheeks and a nose, though. :) She was so cool and said that since I didn't get any pictures this time, to come find her at my next appointment and if she's not busy she'd sneak me back there and get a picture. So here's hoping I get one more chance to see him before the big day! Speaking of the big day, although I wasn't checked for dilation, she did measure my cervix during the ultrasound. It came in at 4.95cm. I googled that when I got home and from what I found, a fully closed cervix usually measures at 5cm...lol. So darn it, there's been no progress on that front as of yet. I'm hopeful that now that he's head down, things will get started. The UT also kept laughing about D's "goods". She said that it's funny how baby boys can already be so different in the womb. She said sometimes they are just these little tiny things poking out and then other times it takes over the ultrasound screen! LOL. She made a comment at one point about "seeing "it" by his knees" and then said "his dad will be proud". Haha! She is SO inappropriate most of the time, but I really do love her.
Up next was my appointment. Once again I only gained 1 pound in 2 weeks! This means I've gained 25lbs altogether right now. I'm definitely happy with that. My original goal had been 25lbs but I knew fairly quickly that wasn't going to happen, so I changed it to 30lbs. I think I might make that one! :) Blood pressure was perfect like always. I'm STILL measuring about 2 weeks behind but my doctor said he wasn't going to worry about that at all. Baby is measuring in the 54th percentile and he said "you can't get much more perfect than that!" so I'm just carrying small this time. I had my groub b test done and I also had him go ahead and do a culture since I still keep getting symptoms of a yeasty. That came back fine, so I'm assuming my hormones have just made me all out of whack. Next appointment is in 1.5 weeks when I'll be exactly 37 weeks. He'll start checking me then and I'll start going weekly. He also mentioned that his daughters are coming into town that day so he's going to start trying to get everything scheduled for vacation. That makes me a bit anxious since he'll probably have vacation sometime around when I'm due. My doc is very lax about when you want to have him, so I'm thinking he'll probably offer to induce me around his schedule if I am interested. It's something to think about, especially since I was told if Declan follows his growing curve, I'd be looking at another 9lber if I went to my due date or a bit over. O.o
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