Well we finally had that dreaded but much anticipated ultra sound we have been talking about. I can tell you that you had one nervous Mom on your hands. I tried telling myself I wasn’t nervous but once I started talking with the doctors and explaining what was going on and what concerns my actual doctor has, I realised I was pretty anxious to hear what they had to say. So we chatted with a nurse when we first went in. She was really nice and asked a lot about you.  Then she took my blood pressure. I think I was holding my breath this whole time. All week I have tried to calm down, stay focused and relaxed. Rest when I felt I needed it and eat healthy. I really wanted to hear some good news. She took a while, in fact my arm was going numb.

GREAT NEWS!

No more high blood pressure. Yes, this can obviously change but I was so happy to hear it went down. I will do everything I can to keep it down. She said everything looked really good.

Off to the ultra sound tech we go.

This girl was also so soo nice. Being so far along now it is really hard to see anything. You are squished really tight in there I guess. But she took measurements of everything and looked at your lungs breathing. They have to pump at least 30 times in 60 seconds for them to be happy with your development and of course, they were A-OK.  After that she had to run all of her scans by the actual doctor and have him come chat with us.

Nervous Mom again. I am not too sure how your Dad was feeling. He always seems so cool and collected. It isn’t too often we get to see him stressed. He is our glue, I’ll tell you that much!

In comes the doctor with your charts. He explained a lot to us. There isn’t too much fluid and everything looks great. You are still measuring in the high percentile (meaning big or early) but I guess they cannot technically say if they think you will be early. All of your scans showed 36 weeks…and we are only 33…so you may be here sooner than we all think.

Either way, everything is absolutely great. Your heart beat was 141 and you are a happy baby. They even explained to me how you are positioned because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out if your head is down, where are all of these kicks coming from? So, your head is down and face down. You have your legs and arms spread all over the place. She called it a STARFISH which is so perfect for you with all the travels to the ocean you have done. And it makes so much sense. And we also now know that we are poking you in the butt a lot…we will try and stop that now.

We also had a bit of an emergency appointment with our regular clinic. Maybe emergency is the wrong word, we will go with unscheduled instead. I have been feeling a lot of pressure, cramping and back aches lately. Some where I can hardly walk for long periods of times. So I figured it was best to go get checked out. We saw a new doctor and she was great. She explained a lot about what is happening in my body. Lets just say my little stomach doesn’t have much room so it is stretching and twisting in ways that are just going to make me uncomfortable for a while (possibly 6 more weeks). Everything else was fine and she said you look great and healthy. She also told me to stop eating sugar if I want a smaller baby. Well gee….a little late for that I think haha.  And another great thing, she took me off working. Yes! No more work for me for a whole year. I am so excited to sleep if we need to sleep. Walk if we need to walk and just be. The pressure was getting to be too much to work through so I am very relieved that I don’t have that stress on top of everything else.

And one more thing this week. We had visitors. Your Gramma and Grampa came up from Medicine Hat to visit you. This was actually the first time your Grampa has seen you since we told him you existed (which was when we were 16 weeks). I had a tiny tiny bump back then so I cannot imagine what went through his head when he saw me. He, like a lot of the males around, thinks it is so weird when you kick and move around. They describe it as an alien. I know…terrible right. But honestly it is pretty weird. You will get to see it one day I am sure if we try to have another little one after you. But the visit was awesome. Your Dad and Grampa cleaned out the entire garage (it was a disaster in there) and your Gramma and I did all of my laundry (and trust me there is a ton). It was also the first time they got to see your room.

Their faces said it all to me.

Serene

Peaceful

Love

Those are the words that come to mind. It felt really real to me showing them your room. Actually things are starting to feel really real all together.

Soon Baby M

So soon!