Scottie Pippen week
Here we are at 33 weeks pregnant. And I always think of Scottie and his chicken legs when I see the No. 33, so Happy Scottie Pippen Week to everyone!
Yesterday I waited one hour and 45 minutes to see my doctor. It was a new record, even for that notoriously wait-filled office. Oh but it was worth the wait!
I only gained one pound in three weeks, hooray! And I am measuring at 31 weeks instead of 33, hooray again! But I can tell you I am starting to feel every centimeter of this expanding uterus. I am having trouble rolling over in bed easily and can't bend over anymore. Being pregnant in the winter sucks -- how the hell am I supposed to manuever these snow-filled sidewalks in backless New Balance tennis shoes?
But I really feel I should not complain because I am not that big. People tell me all the time I am carrying really small and to tell you the truth, I am happy about it. I don't want to look like a huge cow. How vain am I?
Anyway, we also solved the mystery of the comment from the resident at Labor & Delivery last week, which was, "Well, you are ... (pause) ... closed." To which I said I was nervous she was going to say something about being a fingertip dilated and she said, "Well I can get a fingertip in there." Which was news to this cerclage-sporting girl.
My OB said when they place cerclages, they don't do them so tight that not even air can get in. She said there needs to be a little play to the cervix to allow for the inevitable changes. Too tight and you would rip through the stitch. Sounds good enough to me. So she said that yes she could get a fingertip in, but there was no dilation or anything like that.
After all of that waiting and checking, we set the cerclage removal date for Friday, Jan. 4. I will be roughly 36 weeks 4 days, not that I am counting or anything, and I was pleased to have a date picked out. That gives me 17 days worth of contractions and false labor scares between my cerclage removal and my induction date. Won't that be fun?
And while I don't think I will go into labor immediately following the cerclage removal, there is a slim possibility. So we have to be prepared for a second child to join this family in a mere 24 days.
Wait. What? That's like three weeks from now.
Yesterday I waited one hour and 45 minutes to see my doctor. It was a new record, even for that notoriously wait-filled office. Oh but it was worth the wait!
I only gained one pound in three weeks, hooray! And I am measuring at 31 weeks instead of 33, hooray again! But I can tell you I am starting to feel every centimeter of this expanding uterus. I am having trouble rolling over in bed easily and can't bend over anymore. Being pregnant in the winter sucks -- how the hell am I supposed to manuever these snow-filled sidewalks in backless New Balance tennis shoes?
But I really feel I should not complain because I am not that big. People tell me all the time I am carrying really small and to tell you the truth, I am happy about it. I don't want to look like a huge cow. How vain am I?
Anyway, we also solved the mystery of the comment from the resident at Labor & Delivery last week, which was, "Well, you are ... (pause) ... closed." To which I said I was nervous she was going to say something about being a fingertip dilated and she said, "Well I can get a fingertip in there." Which was news to this cerclage-sporting girl.
My OB said when they place cerclages, they don't do them so tight that not even air can get in. She said there needs to be a little play to the cervix to allow for the inevitable changes. Too tight and you would rip through the stitch. Sounds good enough to me. So she said that yes she could get a fingertip in, but there was no dilation or anything like that.
After all of that waiting and checking, we set the cerclage removal date for Friday, Jan. 4. I will be roughly 36 weeks 4 days, not that I am counting or anything, and I was pleased to have a date picked out. That gives me 17 days worth of contractions and false labor scares between my cerclage removal and my induction date. Won't that be fun?
And while I don't think I will go into labor immediately following the cerclage removal, there is a slim possibility. So we have to be prepared for a second child to join this family in a mere 24 days.
Wait. What? That's like three weeks from now.
Labels: Incompetent Cervix, Pregnancy
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