40 weeks 2 Days

We had our 40 week appointment today, and unfortunately we have not progressed much since last week. We are about a half centimeter more dilated, and still at 50%. The only improvement is that he is now sitting at -1 to 0. Since the appointment and having her help to get things moving we are still waiting for him to show his little face, and in the mean time he is just getting bigger and bigger. So now instead of having a 8.5 to 9 pounder we will probably have a 9 to 9.5 pound baby. Plus I asked her when they would induce me and she said that technically I am not overdue until I am 42 weeks along. So it sounds like she won't be inducing me anytime soon. Keep your fingers crossed that he will come soon.

40 weeks

Well, our due date came and went without any signs of the baby. I would say I was surprised, but after having Emily be late there was no way that I could see him come anywhere close to my due date. I am so ready for him to get out. I didn't mind having Emily in for an extra week, but this time around he is just reeking havoc on my body. My back and hips have never hurt this bad before. It is a little bit of a double edged sword because my body wants him out, but my mind is saying no I don't want to go through labor and delivery again. Well, we will see where he is at tomorrow with my appointment and hopefully we can get things going.

39 weeks

Well, had another appointment today. We were hoping we would be dilated and effaced enough to have a little help in getting things going which would give us a baby hopefully in the next day or two. Unfortunately for us there was no progression from last week still 2cm, 50% and he is sitting at a -2. The midwife said that it looks like a possible Christmas baby or even a New Years baby. Looks like I will be doing a lot of  pelvic tilts and squats to get him to move down.

38 week appointment

I have some other posts that I need to post from Halloween and Thanksgiving, but I need to figure out how to shrink the size of my pictures. I was told that I have met my space allotment for pictures in this blog. So I am going to go back and shrink down pictures in past blog posts, and the ones waiting to be posted. If that is going to be too time consuming I might just create a new blog every time I run out of picture space. Each blogger can have up to 100 blogs which I don't think I will ever use all of them.

On to the fun stuff. Here is a little update of what has been going on with the baby:

We had an ultrasound to measure how big he is at this point, and he is currently approximately 7lbs 15 oz which if he goes full term he could possible gain up to 1 more pound, but the midwife said that he will probably be no bigger than Emily was when she was born 9lbs! That is a relief that he won't be any bigger.

She checked to see how dilated and thinned we are. We are currently 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced. She is thinking that he will probably be here sometime next week so keep your fingers crossed.