Where has the time gone - Week 36

Wow I can't believe its been so long since I last posted!

So much as happened, where to start?!

Well on New Years Eve and New Years Day I was given steroid shots to mature baby girls lungs in case she would need to be taken early. Those shots were horrible and my butt, thighs, and back hurt for a good couple of weeks after receiving them. But the good news was baby girls lungs were ready for whatever was to come.

A week later baby girl's heart rate started to have decels on her NST test. What does that mean? Well during a non-stress test the doctors are looking for baby's heart rate to go up and come down - having excels and decels, just like we do. However when the heart rate goes down it should come right back up with no problem. Sometimes, however, baby's heart rate will go down (decel) and it will be hard for them to get it back to where it belongs. This is what was happening with baby girl. So I was admitted into the hospital and put on 24 hour monitoring. I spent five days hooked up to monitors watching baby girl around the clock. Finally Dr. Z and the peri's felt confident enough for me to go home and continue bi weekly testing. January 13th I was sent home. At this time we still had a c-section date of Feb 2nd.

The next day I saw Dr. Z who explained that they wanted to take baby girl on the exact day I turned 37 weeks and bypass the amnio. I agreed and my c-section date was moved up to January 28th.

Fast forward to today. All baby girls testing looks great! No more decels and the c-section is still scheduled for January 28th, this Friday! Ahhh!! Had my last ultrasound today in which baby girl already weighs a whopping 7lbs! If she was going to be in there until 40 weeks she would have been well over 9lbs according to the tech! YIKES!

So today I leave you with an updated belly pic, hopefully the next pic I post is a pic of my beautiful little girl! Only three more days now!