Saw my OB today. I'm 4.5cm (I was 4cm last night) and 80% effaced, with a "good station" (she said my baby is continuing to drop is apparently what that meant). She looked at me and said "how have you not had this baby already??" Apparently, she doesn't expect me to go another week before I have her. The OB also expects me to have a pretty fast labor/delivery and urged me to go in at the soonest possible indication of labor. Personally, I'm just glad I made it this far without having her too early! She can come any time as far as I'm concerned. I'll be 37 weeks on Thursday...though I would still rather her be a November baby so I'm hoping she holds out until Saturday! Knowing my little lady (who has been incredibly stubborn and already headstrong), she'll wait to make an appearance just because we all want to see her so badly!
Eek! Something tells me little miss Kella will be our first girl Sparkler! How exciting!!
AFM: I have marathon doc appointments tomorrow and Friday including 2 NSTs, A growth scan, more lab work, and possible biophysical profiles. Assuming I get through all of that without issues, I'm guessing I'll actually make it to my scheduled c-section next Tuesday at 37+1. EIGHT DAYS from now!!!
I'm a mixture of being more than ready and super excited, and being super nervous and not ready at all.
it's complicated. Lol. I'm also totally ok with them coming this week if they need to. 36 weeks feels safe enough for me if need be, though I would love to make it to term. The only day I want to try to avoid this week is Halloween. The way I see it, Declan and Isla will already have to share a birthday no matter what, and I'd rather not have them also share a birthday with every other kid in America and have bday parties conflict with Halloween and Trick or Treating. But that's just me. My cousin is desperately hoping for a Halloween baby and speaking of...
My cousin who is due 2 weeks before me and is currently 38 weeks thinks she might be in the early stages if labor! She's currently having contractions about 8 minutes apart, but also thinks it could just be false labor so she is in wait and see mode. She was over a week overdue with her son, and because of that, we just assumed my twins would come first. Crazy! Our babies might be born within a week of each other, I love it!
I feel like it too.
and cncem, I'm almost 24 I just have a baby face (though I guess I could still be considered a baby by some 
) My mom and sister were both in their 30's when they had their second kids, but I beat them with my first by about 5 years (they were both 19 with their first). Plus, happy birthday!!!
