Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Weston Wednesday

Ultrasound this afternoon...

The Numbers:
I am 34 weeks, 2 days pregnant
Weston is already 6lbs 1oz, with a femur length the likes of a 36 week gestational baby
My belly is measuring 38 weeks

What it means...
Basically, I am incubating an offensive lineman in my uterus.
He's is and will be a big boy when he gets here.
The doctor also noted that my amniotic fluid level is borderline high, which means one of three things:
1. It is a freak thing, and everything is fine
2. I have gestational diabetes
3. The baby is not swallowing like he should, possible due to an esophageal anomaly

We are not freaking out because
1. A month ago, when I had my glucose tolerance test, my result was no where near high
2. The baby had fluid in his stomach, indicative of some swallowing action and had a normal anatomy screening ultrasound at 20 weeks

All signs are pointing to freak thing. But, just to be safe, I am going to have to repeat the glucose tolerance test (puke) and have another ultrasound in two weeks.

I was hoping that we could move the due date up a couple of weeks since he is so big. Alas, all I could get was a week early induction. At this point, I will take what I can get. Nothing is set in stone, but I am thinking I will be induced the week of July 19th.

On a side note...the doc says that E was probably small (6lbs 14oz) in comparison to the moose, I mean Weston, because my blood pressure was high with her. Interesting.






2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you have control of the situation.. Love you all so much Weston's animal is almost done hope to get it in the mail by the end of next week.. love granny

The H Fam said...

Good Luck, I had to repeat my glucose test too with Noah and everything came out fine.

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