T MINUS 5 days- Megan will be induced on January 19th.
This week has been quite a crazy one. All good, but a crazy one for sure. This is Megan sitting on the bouncing ball, eating pineapple and just hoping and praying for this baby to come early. Luckily her wishes were answered. But I will get to that later.
On Tuesday we went in for the final ultrasound and everything went great! We had to stress to the ultrasound tech to NOT tell us or slip up on what sex the baby is. She was very nice and did not slip at all. We found out that our baby weighs 6 pounds and 7 oz. I was a 10 pound baby and Megan was a 7 pounder so that seems about right. The ultrasound tech pointed out that our baby will have hair! Both Megan and I thought that we would have a bald baby since both of us were bald as babies. So that means two things, either this is not my baby and Megan actually is having a baby with a long haired 80's rocker man. Or my Hispanic roots of hairiness are really coming through. Hopefully it is the Hispanic thing. I don't think Megan is into the rocker type.
On Wednesday we finished taking the final maternity shots of Megan. They all turned out so nice and I feel very lucky to have the ability to take them. I may not know how to fix a car or put in hard wood floors. But I know how to take a nice picture. The only bad part is that I am NEVER in any of them! I wish I could have had a couple with me in them, but, as long as Megan loved them, and she did I am very happy. We will be able to cherish these forever!
So Thursday rolled around and we already had our appointment set with the Doctor. We were really hoping to hear some news of Megan progressing along more then she had been at last weeks appointment.
Megan had been having pretty bad headaches the past week and mentioned that to the doctor. Our doctor showed concern and her headaches coupled with high blood pressure only meant one thing. Early signs of Preclampsia. It is a condition that some women get that can affect the over all health of the mother and the baby. She was not in the danger zone just yet, but the early signs are all there. Our fantastic doctor immediately took out her planner and said "We need to plan a date to get this baby out." Megan and I looked at each other and we did a mental chest bump in the room. We were both smiling ear to ear. It was what we had been hoping to hear for a long time! The day is finally here! We both were so excited to hear her talk about the inducement that we kind of brushed aside the seriousness of the condition. The doctor said "If you continue to get the headaches, and it doesn't go away with Tylenol..go to the hospital." That scared me. She told Megan that she is on bedrest until she induces her on Wednesday the 19th. She also has to check her blood pressure twice a day just to make sure the levels don't get too high. Before we left our appointment Megan was put on a fetal heart rate monitor to monitor the baby's heart rate for about 30 minutes. Our doctor just wanted to be absolutely sure everything was fine with our baby. Megan and I sat in this little room and listened to the heart beat and watched the baby's heart rate levels. We had no idea what we were really looking at, but we knew we were glad we didn't have one of these at our house or it would scare that crap out of us! We would see the heart rate spike up then go back down and just prayed that was ok. After 30 minutes our doctor came back in and checked the levels and she said much to our relief that the baby is perfect! So we will go see the Doctor on Tuesday and straight from there go right to Winnie Palmer to spend the night! Our doctor told us that Megan was ok and not to worry too much, but she wanted to be safe and not sorry, so that is why she was inducing. As we left the office we gave each other a big hug and we both could not stop smiling. I know that a week from now we will have our baby. We will know whether we will have a son or a daughter and that in itself is such a surreal thing to think about. This long journey of pregnancy will be over and an entirely new chapter in our lives will begin. I am ready and excited for this chapter to begin.
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