37 weeks

11/19/08

The baby is now considered full term! This means that if the baby arrives now, his lungs should be fully mature and ready to adjust to life outside the womb, even though your due date is still three weeks away.Your baby weighs 6 1/3 pounds and measures a bit over 19 inches, head to heel. I forgot to ask Beth, our midwife, about how big she thought the baby was at our last appointment. I guess I will have to ask her on Monday. We are now going every week, so I feel like we are in there all the time. Practitioners are better and guessing how big the baby is at this point than ultrasounds. Many of you may remember they told us that Owen was growth restricted, and was only going to weight 6lbs even. Well, turns out he was born 4 days later, and weighed in at 7lbs 5oz. I guess he really hit a growth spurt! : ) I am being sarcastic in case you couldn't tell! Everything is pretty much the same, still having the pelvic pressure, swelling, and difficultly sleeping. I worked my last day at the hospital today, and I have the last of my lia sophia shows on Sunday, and then I am officially on maternity leave!!! WHOOHOO! I am so ready!

We took a tour of Clark Memorial Hospital this week. Since we delivered Owen at Baptist East, we just wanted to check things out at Clark so we knew where things were located. I also wanted to find out about a few of their policies, and how lenient they really were on some of them. The nurse that gave the tour, told us that after the baby has been on the mom's chest for awhile, then the nursery nurse take the baby over to the warmer to put on a hat, and arm bands. I asked why that couldn't also be done on my chest, and she said as long as the baby is doing okay then that would also be fine. We just need to add that onto our birth plan. By the sounds of it, Clark is going to be much more up our "natural friendly" road than Baptist East. I am so excited about them having the labor tubs, and think they will help out a lot with the contraction pain.

I see that no one is voting on Emory. George hates that name too, so I guess that one is out as well. I put the poll on here before I even discussed the name with him. It looks like if this little one is a boy, his name will be Preston Grant Shultz. I know I say this every week, but the anticipation is really getting to me. Have I been carrying around a sweet little boy, or a precious little girl? We will all find out soon!