This past Friday Jer and I went to what will amazingly enough, be our final weekly appointment at the doctor's office!! YAY! It was by far our most exciting appointment because we found out that we're getting induced on our due date! We are excited, nervous and happier than ever! Here are some details on how the appointment went and what next week has in store for us:
The appointment:
Dr. Talsky came in and informed me I was now his most pregnant patient. There was a girl due March 24th, but her water broke on Wednesday night and she ended up having the baby Thursday. So I now held this esteemed position! The first thing we did was measure me. We have not changed. I'm still 43 centimeters. This means the baby has not dropped. He felt my belly for the baby's positioning and said the baby (his best educated guess) is 8.5 to 9lbs. This prompted some discussion of how much longer we wait for Baby Linley? He checked me and I had not made much progress, which was slightly disappointing. I was only one and half centimeters dialted. This means I most likely won't start laboring any time soon. Most women are 2 and half centimeters before they begin laboring on their own. And after checking me said the head is still not down and dropped into place. This is also another sign that labor wasn't as imminent as we would really like it to be.
The induction:
Given the size of the baby and the lack of progression, Dr. Talsky decided we would be good candidates for induction. We decided to wait until my due date to give Baby Linley just a little more time to decide if he/she was ready to join us without pitocin's help. So Tuesday at 8pm, we check into the hospital to be administered a dose of cervidil (something to help my cervix dialate) and then on Wednesday morning (our official due date) around 7am, I will be able to shower and then we'll beging pitocin. Dr. Talsky said our goal is to have a baby by midnight on Wednesday night. YAY!
Please if you could, keep us in your prayers. As the day quickly approaches I am finding myself more nervous than I expected. Something about knowing the exactly day it will happen rather than blindly waiting for it to happen anyday, change the game a little bit! Stay tuned...I plan to post a few more posts before we head to the hospital. We've had some fun enjoying our last couple days off before baby...so there will be more to come!
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