Hello all! As the title of today's post, we have 16 more sleeps until c-section day. It's funny when you're counting down to a big day. You try to find the one that sounds like the shortest amount of time. 2 weeks & 2 days? 16 days? 16 sleeps? 2 weeks from Thursday? While my answer changes depending on my mood, today I think 16 sleeps sounds best. 16 days makes me think of 16 long days. Anything with "weeks" in it just seems like forever. Sleeps are generally 6 hours or less these days so 16 of those seems like a short amount of time. (Mind you, yesterday I preferred to think of it as 2 weeks & 3 days instead of 17 days or 17 sleeps. That's why I said it seems to vary depending on my mood.) So which do you think is the shortest sounding?
Today's doctor's visit went well for the most part. The worst part was my weight. Somehow I gained 3.4 pounds in one week!! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!? Yes, that deserved to be spelled out instead off my usual abbreviation of WTF!! I have no idea why but my guess is that my activity level being greatly cut since starting this modified bedrest probably contributed. That and I'm feeling a little puffy lately so I have a feeling some of it is water weight. Whatever it is, I have to work extra hard over the next week to make sure I stay put on that freaking scale. Total weight gain thanks to packing on the pounds this week = 18.8 pounds. Still acceptable overall of course, it's just hard to see a gain like that when I can't even eat all of the foods I'd like to be eating. Ah well, let it go Amanda, let it go.
My NST was good. Some contractions but nothing major. Maribel racing her heart away at first and then calming down into a nice pattern. My AFI was good at 16.93 - so even higher than the original reading 2 weeks ago. BP was awesome at 120/86. Pulse, temp, & urine all fine too. Doc pushed on a few parts of my lower legs to make sure I wasn't having pitting edema with that weight gain but everything looked good there too.
So then we discussed our final decision for our c-section date. He again ran through our options - deliver next week, but just do an amnio beforehand to make sure her lungs are mature or deliver at 39 weeks on 7/7. OMG, how I wanted to say let's deliver next week. I really, really wanted to say that. But instead I told him how DH & I discussed it and we'd (well, mostly DH) like to shoot for 39 weeks. He chuckled as I said I'd like DH to carry a bowling ball in his shirt for this last week so he feels my pain (mind you, I was semi-serious.) He called over to the hospital to tell them to put me on the schedule for 7/7 for my c-section. Wow, hearing him make that call made it all feel very real.
Next week, instead of going for my NST/prenatal visit on Tuesday, I'll go on Thursday. That will be exactly 38 weeks and will be 1 week before my c-section. Doc will do the hospital paperwork with me that day and it can only be done one week prior to my surgery (pre-op vitals and such) so this will allow me to just have one appointment next week instead of having one appointment on Tuesday and then going in Thursday for the paperwork portion. That works for me! And that means I only have ONE more doctor visit before we deliver. One! Wow! During next week's appointment he'll go through all of the details for the surgery - what to expect, what time to be there, pre-op instructions, etc. I can't believe we're this close now! I've used a lot of exclamation points in the last few sentences so I think you can sense my excitement.
So that's it for today. Thursday will be 37 weeks so I'll be sure to post a new belly shot. Until then, I hope you're all having a great week and happy first day of summer!
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