Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Less than one week!

That's right!  These baby girls will meet the world in less than 7 days. 

Here's how I know:
I just got back from my final ultrasound with the perinatal specialist.  The babies look "beautiful," have great heartbeats and amniotic fluid, and they are getting to be heavy little tater tots.  I'm 36 weeks and 5 days and Baby B is weighing in at approximately 6 lbs. 4 oz. Way to go blueberry B!  Baby A has a healthy weight of 5 lbs. 9 oz (also approx.).  The specialist's only concern was that blueberry A's stomach had not grown as much as she would like in the last two weeks. This means that her placenta could be getting tired and it's probably time for mama to start feeding her in the big world outside. 

So my specialist called my doctor who happens to be on his day off.  We must wait until tomorrow morning when he will decide when I should be induced.  If my memory serves me well, he is on call this weekend, so I think there is a good chance that my induction will be scheduled Friday, less than 48 hours!  If not Friday, it will be sometime next week with another doctor in the group because my doc is not on call during next week.  I know you are all on pins and needles ;) so I will post an update as soon as I hear from my doc (of course, Mom, I will call you before that, right after Michael).

I feel very blessed to have made it to 37 weeks (on Friday) and Michael and I thank the Lord that our blueberries look so healthy.

Check back tomorrow for an update.  In the meantime, I have some serious nesting to do!

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