Baby Update

Here is a hopefully brief baby update. Yesterday I had one of my regularly scheduled doctor’s appointments, oh what fun. Usually things have been boring and normal but finally I am 1 centimeter dilated. YES! We are on our way. Plus he always checks the heart beat to make sure baby is doing well and today the heart beat was low in the 112-115, which is low but he wanted to make sure everything was fine. He did not really think anything was wrong since baby was visibly moving around my belly the entire time. Oh yea I’m measuring at 41 weeks, yikes, I’m only at 39 weeks. Makes you wonder how big the baby is. Anyway, after seeing the doctor he wanted me to jaunt across the street to have the baby monitored for about 30 minutes just to make sure. Of course labor and delivery triage was super busy. Some women were actually coming in while in labor, others just seemed to be sad, and some like me were just there to be monitored and checked. After about 25-30 minutes I finally got a bed and was hooked up and ready to go. I had to switch sides to see if baby would respond more on one side over the other, which of course happened. Needless to say after about forever, 45 minutes or so, I was finally able to go home. The baby’s heart rate was just fine, in between moving around (that is the baby not me) and I don’t think I had a single contraction while I was there. Bummer! The triage nurse was little overwhelmed she had a lady waiting and need to check two, discharge me and answer the phone, her day was pretty crazy. Plus they actually ran out of beds and had to use a room. Once she was done on the phone I was finally on my home. I guess it’s a good thing I had Ben come home to watch the kids since things were very crazy. The end of this story is that I am still pregnant and who knows when baby will make an appearance.