Dr. appointment

Just a quick little post about my doctor's appointment today.

I have been having some bad back and hip pain along with some pressure down there still. The pressure is no where near as bad as it was 2 weeks ago, but its still there occasionally. However all of these things are normal and even though they are keeping me up more than half of the night there is not much I can do about it.

Also my weight is up by 28 pounds! At this rate if I gain only one pound a week from here on out i'll have put on a total of 35 pounds. Not horrible, but more than I wanted. I didn't want to go over 30 pounds.

My blood pressure was good ringing in at 100/68 and my glucose test results came back at 121 (whatever the units are) which is normal!

I am also measuring 1cm (1 week) ahead. Which in all honesty I'm measuring right on time if you go based on the first day of my last period instead of the ultrasound. So I am technically due March 12th, not March 15th and technically am 33 weeks today which measures right on track with my belly!

We also discussed that basically if I go in labor outside of office hours (8am-5pm is office hours) then a hospitalist (aka Joe Blow) will be delivering my baby. Not such good news to me. Plus almost everyone that I know that has been pregnant the same time as me and is having their babies is having to be induced. Until the last few weeks this was something that I did not want to do. I didn't want to force her out until she was ready or if there was a medical reason to. Well, the more I think about it the better and better it sounds to me to know when shes coming and know who will deliver her. He said he could induce me anytime after 39 weeks, but that early would increase my risk of needing a C-section. He said not that it necessarily means I will have to have one, it just increases the risk. I would not want to schedule an induction before her due date so the earliest i would ever schedule it for would be March 12th at 40 weeks. Tyler and I have talked several times about it lately and he insists on sharing his birthday "with someone worth sharing it with" and since his birthday is March 16th which is the Monday following my due date and is the first day my doctor would suggest inducing me if she hadn't come yet that will be the date we schedule it for at my next appointment. He said scheduling it for that date would be a perfect time because i'll be past 40 weeks which should mean my cervix has softened up and she'll definitely be ready to come out by then.

So, providing everything stays smooth from here on out and as long as little miss doesn't want her own birthday and comes early she will be born on March 16th, 2015 and be the best birthday present her daddy could ever imagine!

We're so excited to be about 50 days away from meeting her and from February 5th on I will start my weekly visits including an ultrasound appointment to check size and weight on February 19th at 37 weeks! <3