Guess Who?

Well, there is a good chance that you are looking at what Bryce will look like at 6 months. That stud holding me would be my Uncle Tony, who was more like a dad to me than an uncle.

Latest Pics & Dr. Visit Updates

As you can see by the pictures, Mr. Bryce is definitely growing. Since the main doctor I've been seeing is out with his ill father, I saw Dr. Loncar this past Wednesday. She's great...I love all the doctors in the practice. I had gained another pound since last week so I'm up to 143 now. My belly measured 38.5cm which means he's right on track for when they want to induce me (the end of March/first of April...but NOT April 1st!). We don't know how much he weighs, but we do know that when they measure my belly it should correlate with the number of weeks I am. When I was at the doctor I was 36 weeks and 5 days so he was measuring about 2 weeks ahead of schedule. I was 70% effaced and dilated to 1cm! We've progressed a little bit! Because of my so-called "gestational diabetes" they do fetal monitoring on me each visit for 20-30 minutes. This tracks his heartbeat and detects any contractions I may have. The entire time I was hooked up to the machine his heartbeat varied from 154bmp to 162bmp and he was moving around like crazy. Toward the end he had the hiccups which you could hear through the machine...it was so sweet!

We go back to the doctor this coming Wednesday. Hopefully after this visit we'll know for sure when they want to induce me...that is, if he doesn't come on his own!

9 Months & Patiently Waiting!

Well, things are coming along and getting bigger everyday. I've been slacking on updating everyone after my doctor visits, but here's the latest: Last Wednesday, Doc said he would definitely want to induce me between 38 and 38 1/2 weeks. This puts us into the last week of March, probably somewhere around the 26th or 28th. He says everything is going great. I weigh 142 lbs. and my belly is measuring 36 cm (just as it should). He's fully convinced that I don't have a diabetes problem and that I probably really never did, but they had me take the insulin because of what my glucose test results showed. I still check my fasting sugar levels a couple of times a week and it's still been great. I go back to the doctor Wednesday, 3/19, and think that we'll probably go ahead and schedule an induction. From two weeks ago to last week, I had not progressed any. I was still 50% effaced, had not dilated at all and my station was -2 (for those of you who don't know what "stationing" is, it's where the baby's head is in comparison to the pelvis, 0 is when the baby has fully settled into the pelvis, but has not began his decent into the birth canal yet). So Bryce has "dropped" but he's not fully settled into the pelvis right now. I've been having a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions so I know my body is warming up...we just don't know how long it plans to keep warming up!

I'll try my best to post the last word from the Doc after we go this Wednesday. Hopefully, you'll being seeing pictures of Bryce really soon!