With less than 3 weeks to go until Baby Beyer’s due date the anticipation is starting to build like crazy…the suspense of he/she coming, knowing the gender, and finally giving a name to our first born has me overly joyed. I had my 37 week appointment on Friday (9/2), which included my first internal exam. The good news is that all of my vitals have continued to be strong and healthy (good heart rate, bp 120/70, no extra retention of fluid). The Baby’s heartbeat was loud and clear between 150-160 bpm! No exciting news as far as my cervix being dilated. I asked Dr. McGrew how big he thought Baby Beyer will be and he said that he estimates somewhere around 7 and a half pounds which sounded great to me; not so small that I would be afraid to hold my own child, but not so big that (hopefully) he or she would get stuck!
Baby Beyer is sure taking up a lot of room in my mid section these days. I find myself eating a lot less and just being full very fast, which is fine with me and it seems to be fine with him/her since I am not hungry or anything (more than usual). Dr. McGrew asked me if I have had any Braxton Hicks contractions, I told him I didn’t think so, but I wasn’t sure. There are a lot of movements/feelings going on now and some of them are readily identifiable, while others are not. The only thing I know up until this point is that my water has not broken and I have not had any real labor contractions. At this point, I figure unless all of a sudden I am in a lot of sudden pain I only need to worry about identifying those two things. My next appointment is this Friday and I have appointments every Friday from now until due date, Friday, September 23!
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