Dr. Robertson's Appointment

I figured the previous post (Dr. Thatcher Appointment) was getting to long, so I would just create a new post for the appointment at Dr. Robertson's office.

So I had my appointment with Dr. Robertson on Wednesday. Now silly me thinking that since everything was good and okay at the previous day's appointment, that there was no need for Derek to attend this appointment as well. Okay so we might have been slightly wrong on that idea! Again should be the typical appointment of weight, blood pressure, watching the baby on the ultrasound, etc. Which again the scale said I was still down 4 lbs, I couldn't help but be a little happy! Blood pressure looks great. Baby was good on the ultrasound, rolling around and being a little turkey as normal. By the way, have I said how much I enjoy the nurses and the ultrasound tech at Methodist,I think the are great!

So we are looking at her, being all cute, as baby's due. We went ahead and got her weight....she is already 5lbs 13 oz. Meaning....she is a big baby! So of course Dr.Robertson comes in the room and we are looking things over and he agrees that she is a big baby and I tell him about the previous Dr. appointment and the contractions on the monitor...so what does he decide...lets put me back on the monitor for 30 minutes. GRRR! So again, her heart looks great and I am not having contractions, which made me and the Dr. happy.

So he makes a big decision about the baby...we are going to go back in 2 (two) weeks, so August 20th, and check her weight again. He has said that my body pretty much thinks I have a full term baby in there, and its going to start (ha, ha) getting uncomfortable for me. So we will take a look at her weight there and if need be do a amino to test her lungs to see how developed they are...which I really don't want a giant needle in my stomach poking my baby, but then again I don't want to deliver a baby with under developed lungs. So based on what they find on the amino, we will pick a deliver date for either that week or the week after!

So from what I heard...again was in a moment of, what is going on here, it sounds to me (and to Derek) if I explained it right, we will be welcoming our little girl in about 3 weeks, 4 weeks if we need to have some more time for the lungs! So bring on the panic stricken parents as we prepare for the birth of our little one.

We will keep in you informed if anything else changes.