State of the Uterus 39 Weeks

Excuse me while I take a few deep breaths.. I am still traumatized by my appointment yesterday.
It all started out innocently enough, I met the only midwife in the practice that I hadn’t seen before and she was as great as all the others. I weighed in at 160, a 2lb gain [...]

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State of the Uterus 38.5 weeks

I never posted about my 38 week appointment on Monday. Probably because it was totally uneventful..
Midwife Judy (who was the one who took care of me during my first preterm labor episode) didn’t offer me an internal and I didn’t ask for one figuring that I’d get one at my next 39 week appointment.
This made [...]

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A New High

On the scale that is!
159 today. UGH. That’s up from 153 at my last appointment just over two weeks ago. How can you gain 3lbs a week? At this point baby is growing about .5 lbs a week, so the other 2.5 are going to my butt and thighs which I really thought couldn’t get [...]

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The Big U/S is Scheduled!

Wednesday I had my second OB appointment, which was really weird because it was the first time in god knows how long that I’ve been to a Dr.’s office and not had to take my clothes off!
All that happened was that she weighed me and then listened to the heartbeat.  I thought she was at [...]

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