The ultrasound went good (just LOVE seeing this sweet little guy every chance we get :) They estimate his weight at 7# 15oz :0 Bigger than we were expecting! With how they figure it on ultrasound, there is a possibility of baby being up to one pound more than this, to one pound less than this. Given this tech's 'record' with measuring babies and them actually being born, she and the doc told me that:
- 7# 15oz is estimate
- 6#15oz - 8#15oz is range (what he could be)
- 7#8oz - 7#15oz is most likely his size (their prediction)
He is still head down... way down... and had a good heart beat and fluid looked good!
Given my anatomy and his size and that there is no question whatsoever as to do our due date (embryo transfer), the doc does not want us to go more than a week overdue. She has seen little benefit in going more than a week over anyways. We concur.
They checked out the books at the hospital and schedules and Tuesday is the best day to induce, SO... they have us down for:
-Monday 5pm check in (start Cervidil)
- Tuesday 5am (start Pitocin)
Monday is my dad's birthday! Would be pretty cool for his grandson to get to share a birthday with one of the most amazing men on this earth!
We know that anything can happen between now and then, and truthfully, we hope it does. We desire to go into labor completely on our own, just as we desired with Laney.
Ya, I was a little discouraged today with no change or progress (and shocked!), and 'everyone else seems to be going into labor on their own' - hee! But, I rest in God's Plan, His timing ('my times are in Your hands'). We have so much to be thankful for and we choose to focus on that. We are grateful we have carried him to term and he has had every opportunity to develop and put on some extra fat that will benefit him outside the womb. We are grateful to have carried him... period... what a miracle! what a blessing! We are grateful for the extra time this week that we desperately needed to get our feet back on the ground and things under our belt from the crazy month we've just had. We're grateful that hopefully this way we can all concentrate our selves, time and prayers on my niece's surgery tomorrow and not be torn in different directions. We are grateful for a doctor who is great, who genuinely cares about us personally and will do all she can to see to it that he gets a safe arrival :)
Below are the Scriptures God brought to my attention today... loving, steady reminders of His faithfulness and that He is above all, through all, and in Him ALL things hold together. Blane's birthday is no surprise to Him.
We ask that you continue to please pray for us!! We need them, we feel them and we cherish them!
"You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.
4So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages]." Isaiah 26:3-4
"You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me." Psalm 139:5
and you lay your hand upon me." Psalm 139:5
"all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be." Psalm 139:16
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