Week 37

Last Wednesday was the 37 week appointment. The doctor was a little late showing up for the appointment because she was in delivering a baby. She was a little frazzled and trying to get her day back on track. Everything with Shelly and the baby checked out great again. Shelly's 2 cm dialated and the cervix was 70% thinned out. Baby rogers was resting while we were there and the heart rate was down to 131. That was it for the excitement of the week 37 appointment.

Now on to today's excitement. Kari and Aaron had their first baby this morning at 3:30 a.m. Shelly and I got to meet Nolan Aaron tonight. He's a healthy little boy weighing in at a little over 8 pounds. It was exciting and a little scary realizing that it will be us in one of those rooms very soon! It may be sooner than we're expecting. Shelly hasn't been feeling well today and wasn't feeling as much movement from the baby so we were advised to have her get checked out, which was convenient since we were already at the hospital. Our nerves were eased when everything checked out good. They hooked two monitors around Shelly's belly. One measured the baby's heart rate and one measured to see if Shelly was having contractions. The baby's heart rate ranged from 133 -172, and to Shelly's surprise the other monitor was picking up "tightening" in her stomach about every 3 minutes. The nurse didn't call them contractions and didn't seem too worried about it. They did check the cervix again and it's 90-100% thinned so it really could be any day now. They were prepared to keep us there for a few hours to monitor everything but the doctor on call let us go home. So tonight was an exciting one! We'll be back at the regular weekly doctors appointment on Wednesday.

Shelly's Belly!

Two post's in one night! I'm on a roll. Here's another picture of Shelly's Belly. The baby is growing great and her belly is filling out. I've also just posted a quick poll on the right to get everyone's predictions.

Shelly was back at the doctor again today. Everything keeps checking out normal which is great. She's having some problems with her feet and legs swelling up. The swelling just doesn't go down overnight anymore. The doctor doesn't seem to concerned about it yet, so Shelly is still working and just taking it easy when she's home after work.

The baby is still very active and had a great time last night. Shelly thinks the baby flipped into postion and the head is down. I think the hot wings she ate last night for dinner did the trick! At her appointment today the doctor did say that the head is now down and in the right position. Shelly also think that the baby has "dropped". By looking at the picture it sure seems like something has changed.

If we have the baby anytime after next Tuesday it will be considered full term and with it finally heating up outside Shelly is ready!

Time is Flying!

It's been a long time since I've had a chance to update the blog. I'll try and remember back to our previous doctors appointments. I believe we've had 3 since the last post. All has been well. The week 33 doctors appointment was a simple checkup. The heart beat was back down in the 140's and everything else checked out good with Shelly. That was our last bi-weekly appointment and now we go every week until the baby is born.

Last weeks appointment they checked to see if Shelly is dialated and she is already dialated to 1.5 cm. They'll check this every week now until that baby is here. The only other thing they did was check the heart beat measure Shelly's Belly and check her blood pressure. The heart beat is in the low 150's. Shelly's Belly is measuring at 33 inches. The doctor also had a little fun with us before the appointment was over. She performed a very un-scientific test to tell the sex of the baby. She has a string with nail attached to one end of it. Once she settles the string if it rotates in a circle the baby is a girl and if it just swings back and forth it's a boy. She say's it's been fairly accurate for her so we'll have to wait and see if it works. I suppose you all want to know what the string did? We'll be posting a little poll to see what everyone's opinion is, then maybe we'll give up the inside information!