Monitoring baby

When I was getting tested I layed there for an hour and a half listening to our baby's heartbeat. What an amazing sound!! It is kind of hard to hear so you may have to turn your volume up all the way on the computer. This test they monitor the heart rate to see if there are at least two elevations in 20 minutes, which by 5 minutes there already were 2, so baby was doing great! Already an overachiever!!!

38 weeks

I wasn't supposed to go to the doctor until friday since my "regular" doc is on vaction (how could she go on vacation when I am so close to my due date...hmph!!) anyway, I was supposed to go friday, but last night and this morning my blood pressure were really high so I decided to go in today just to make sure everything was ok. When I went to the clinic the nurse said I was still dilated at a three, so no progress there, but she was concerned about the bp. They sent me up to the hospital to have a stress test done to make sure baby was doing ok, and to do some lab work. After a long afternoon of being tested they sent me home ordering bed rest and to go back to see my doc on friday. Baby looked good and all the lab work came back ok, I just can't get up and move around a whole lot otherwise my blood pressure starts to rise. SO, again I sit here waiting. Hopefully friday doc will have some good news and they will induce on the 14th. I don't want to mess around with this whole blood pressure thing, it's really scary. Since I have been dilating for the last three weeks, I feel like I have been waiting FOREVER, when in reality my due date is still two weeks away I shouldn't be so antsy but I'm just not good at waiting I guess! So till friday...!

Week 37 doctor visit

I had my 37 week check up and I have gone from being dialated at a 2.5 to a "good" 3 and still 80% effaced. So now basically doc said it's a waiting game for contractions to start. They can't come soon enough. I pray everyday...please let today be the day. I thought I might go in earlier than the 14th, but now I am starting to think this lil peanut is going to be stubborn like his daddy and wait til we "force" him to come out!! I have been feeling pretty good, a little nauseous here and there, but overall just impatient. Next appointment is on the 10th so hopefully then I will here some news of things moving a long a little more. I just can't wait to meet my baby!