40 Weeks, 5 days

This baby hasn't even been born yet and already is trying my patience! :-) Well, yesterday I got a phone call from a nurse at Dr. Mark's office asking if I was having contractions or if anything had happened yet. I said, no not really but I was feeling some abdominal pressure. So she decided that we should go into the hospital for our non-stress test just to see how things were coming along and to get a pelvic exam. The NST came back really good, the RN said baby is happy as can be and the heartrate was strong and steady. I had a few contractions while on the monitor, but nothing regular. She said I'm not dialated yet, but am softening and then they sent us home.

Today was our appointment at Dr. Mark's office, even though he's still on vacation. My blood pressure was good today and baby's heartrate was good too. The sonogram technician was in the office so they decided to do one at that time. The tech said baby looks really good and is moving around great. The only thing she was concerned about was the placenta was getting old. She said after 40 weeks it starts to deteriorate and on a scale of 1-4 (4 being the oldest) she graded it a 4. I guess once it starts to get too old baby doesn't get as much oxygen, so we had to go back to the hospital for another non stress test. Again, everything looked good with baby as far as moving around and heartrate. So, again we got sent home but are scheduled for another sonogram at 9 in the morning tomorrow at the hospital. The on call doctor will then make a decision if we are going to stay and have me induced or if the placenta doesn't look that bad. Personally, I'm hoping to just be induced because I wouldn't want to put the baby in any danger, but I'm reassured to hear that so far baby is looking healthy and happy.

While doing the sonogram, the tech turned off the big screen while checking the lower half of baby, so we wouldn't see what we're having. But once she was done with that we got to see the baby's head and upper half of the body. His/her little nose was squished against my uterus and looked really cute, well kinda funny actually. We also saw that baby barely has any hair. It was cool to see the sonogram but kind of just made me more anxious to meet this little person that has been growing inside me for so long!

We're sorry to everyone that has been waiting (patiently or impatiently) and hope to have some more news very, very soon! If we do get sent home tomorrow, I'll post again to let everyone know what the next plan of action will be! Otherwise, maybe we'll have pictures of baby on here next! Love to all, Matt & Ann