35w5d - ~23 days to go

Hi friends! 23 days (or less) to go, woo-hoo!!! I had a good prenatal visit today. It started out again with the NST and this one was MUCH calmer than last week's. Maribel started out all super active with that super high heartbeat for the first few minutes as I clicked and clicked and clicked to log her activity. Then everything settled down nicely. In fact, she fell asleep for a good portion of the test. The best part was that I only had 1 contraction the whole time I was hooked up! Awesome!!

We checked the amniotic fluid index (AFI) again via u/s and this created the one nervous moment of the day. The u/s tech (who I've never seen there before) measured all of the pockets of fluid and came up with an AFI of 7.3. This was a lot lower than last weeks AFI of 16.5, enough to make me nervous. Apparently I wasn't the only one nervous about that drop. As soon as Dr D saw that he took me back to the u/s room and had a different u/s tech, one of the two I usually see, do the u/s over (not telling him what the first u/s tech got for results.) The second u/s tech came up with 13.92 so all was good again with the world. It's one thing to have it decrease a little the closer I get to delivery, but that first AFI of the day would have been a significant drop and that wasn't looking good.

So then on to the basics - b/p a lovely 100/70, weight was up 6 tenths of a pound so still doing great in that area (I also think the 2 bottles of water I drank during my NST contributes to that little gain.) No protein in the urine, temp my usual 97.1, and pulse was looking fine. Dr D decided to keep me on the Procardia since we have now seen some improvement with my contractions decreasing, so he gave me a new script for that. And that was really it - a nice, easy, mostly uneventful appointment. I'll go back again next Tuesday for the same - NST, AFI, and prenatal visit.

Only a few more weeks to go, can you believe it??? If she decides to stay put that means I only have 3 more of these weekly appointments - 3!! And then we'll have our baby girl in our arms. Oh, and so far for the poll it looks like 6 folks think Maribel's going to arrive early while 1 thinks she'll hold out until 7/7. I can't wait to see who's right!