Baby Watch: volume 2

This morning we had our final sonogram. Bitter sweet. We saw him drinking and moving his big old lips :-) he weighs almost 8lbs give or take and is very happy in the belly.

After we had the sonogram, we went to breakfast and then to the mall where Gabe fully intended to walk the baby out of me. We went to most of the stores with baby stuff. :) it was fun, but a little painful and tiring to be honest.





We saw these Halloween outfits that made me think of Ella and Santos trick-or-treating in a few years.


This shark costume is awful. Of course gabe loved it!


After the mall, we went to our regular check up where I hoped to get better news. Here are the stats:

Dilation: 1.5cm (same)

Effaced: 30% (same)

Head station: -2 (same!!)

Blood pressure: normal

Strep B test results: negative (yay!!)

She gave us the news that 1. She's going out of town labor day weekend. Yeah. Great. The very first appointment I had she said "don't worry, I never go anywhere, I'll be here to deliver your baby..." thanks. That's just lovely. And 2. If he doesn't come by labor day weekend.... We have to be induced. :(

Since he's already measuring so big, they're worried that he'll grow too much and we'll have problems during a vaginal delivery. So they don't want us to go past our due date. They're scheduling us to be induced on September 7th. Sooo he'll be here in 2 weeks max! Crazy!!

I reallllly hope that he decides to make his grand entrance sooner. I ideally would like to do as much of this process as natural as possible. I'd rather avoid pitocin (the medicine that makes you have contractions) and I'd like to go as long as I can without an epidural (I'd like to avoid it too but it's not a hard no) plus... I'm going to be a wreck the night before. Christmas times a million with a dash of sky diving.

but on the up side, we can plan things now! I'd like to take him to NC to meet Ella and have their first Halloween together. He'll be almost 2 months by then. I think it would be safe for him to travel.

So after the appointment I was kind of bummed. We drove to boynton to faith farm to see about a rocker. No luck. Then we stopped at la-z-boy. Saw one there but we're going to check craigslist for a little while longer.

The ladies are all here tonight painting so I'll have photos to update tomorrow :-) yay!

So tired.....

-37weeks5daysandcounting