Week 34- 3rd week of Bed Rest

So I am late on posting on the blog, I have been very busy on bedrest! Not really. Since the last post we had Thanksgiving, my birthday and 3 dr. appts so I guess I have been a little busy.

For Thanksgiving we had our families visit and then once they left Chris made an entire Thanksgiving meal including a 9lb turkey for the two of us. Everything was really good and I even sat at the table. I know, exciting.

On my birthday (29 years old, gross) our families visited once again and brought me lots of gifts. On top of that, I have had lots of visitors, Katie and Catherine brought me lunch this week and Kathy and my mom hung out with me too. Kellie is coming over today and Adrienne is visiting tonight.

We have had lots of news since the last post. On Monday Chris and I went to the dr. They did the fetal monitoring, which they do everytime to make sure the blood pressure is not affecting baby, and then we saw Dr. Stuhldreyer. She said that bedrest is agreeing with me and she feels that she can let me go full term now (at this point I wanted to slap her, the thought of prolonged bedrest was upsetting) originally she said that we would be induced at 37 or 38 weeks, that would have been right around Christmas, but now it looks like we will go to the due date which is Jan. 10. That means I will be here on the couch for Christmas like Thanksgiving. She did say that she would not let me go past the due date but I don't really care when baby comes if we head into January- I will have to pay the 2009 deductible already and I would rather baby come when baby wants to come.

So, this is all kind of depressing but the good news is that baby can develop longer and ultimately be as healthy as possible which makes me happy. Other good news is that she is no longer planning on a c-section, she thinks I can do a regular delivery which makes me REALLY happy! However strict bedrest still applies and I still have to do the fetal monitoring 2 times a week and dr. visit once a week.

Yesterday (thursday) I had yet another dr. appt. Dr. wanted to see how big baby was so we had an ultrasound. My mom came with me to this one and once again tried to get me to find out the sex of the baby- I said nope. The baby looked huge in the ultrasound but only measured to be about 32 weeks along, so that means baby is a little small. She said it looks like baby is around 3.60 pounds but thinks that baby could get over 6 lbs. by full term delivery. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Really tiny babies make me nervous, I feel like I will break them!

In the ultrasound I was able to see the baby's face- baby actually looked like a ...baby! instead of a skelton in the ultrasound. I could see baby sleeping and he/she is pretty cute if I do say so myself. I have been having dreams that the baby looked like a little monster, but everything looked porportioned and normal! No gonzo nose or giant ears, however I did ask the ultrasound tech if she could measure the nose and ears just in case, she laughed at me and said it wouldnt work.

Okay- that is it for now! Maybe this weekend I will have Chrisopher take a picture of me on the couch with my fat swollen face!