32/33 week follow up

33.3 weeks #4

Last week I had my final scan to check on the baby and my placenta. The baby looked great as he/she has the entire time, the baby is measuring in the 45% for size and is still transverse. Thankfully the baby is transverse spine up so that the doctor will at least have some feet to grab during delivery but this position is not ideal even for a c-section. What can I say my babies just have a mind of their own! The scan also showed no signs of Accreta but has not moved yet again, and I still have about 7-8mm of placenta covering my cervix.

 This basically just means that I continue as I have been and confirms that we can go ahead and schedule my c-section for 37 weeks.  I met with my doctor yesterday to officially go over all the results. Unfortunately I've have 3 albeit very small spotting episodes from 28-33 weeks, the most recent being last week. My doctor was concerned about this as well as the other combination of risks I already have including the thin lower segment of my uterus and felt impressed that we should move my c-section date up another week. So that puts us at a 36 week delivery. She also stressed that this would change if I had any major bleeding or began to hemorrhage which she is hoping we will avoid altogether by delivering an additional week early.

 I am feeling such a mix of emotions knowing that we will have a baby in less than 3 weeks, firstly I'm so ready! This pregnancy has been much harder physically and I'm ready to be un-pregnant! Secondly I'm  scared whitless about delivery, because I get incredibly sick, and because there are a lot of unknowns that we just can't prepare for until my doctor gets in there and sees what's going on regarding my thin uterine wall, and the placenta cooperating. If things go poorly I'll end up with a hysterectomy so I'm just hoping that's not on the horizon! Thirdly, now added, the fear of an early baby. The boys were born at 34.5 weeks and spent almost 4 weeks in the NICU. While 2 extra weeks makes a huge difference on a babies development there is still the chance that the baby may need to be in the NICU for a day or two. With Scarlett's birth it was so amazing to just have her in the room with us during recovery, I didn't have to feel that guilt of not physically feeling up to hanging out in the NICU every second, deal with pumping and shuttleing milk down to the NICU every couple hours and I just got to enjoy my baby. I'm SO hoping that we are able to have a similar experience this time. But I know ther is no way of predicting what will happen. And lastly, I am so anxious to finally know the gender of this baby! We have been having the hardest time deciding on names!! And recently have really started doubling the ones we were leaning towards so I hope it doesn't take us a week to figure it out once the baby arrives! 

I'm now just waiting for the officially call with my scheduled date which in hoping will be today, and trying to get all my ducks in a row in the mean time! Luckily I'm pretty much ready besides a long list of things I would "like" to do but are not at all necessary! I'm praying that things stay uneventful for the next few weeks and we can just make it to my scheduled c-section with out any extra excitement!

-Haley