37 Weeks and Full Term!

Sorry for the self picture, but Jason wasn't home.

Baby Kneifl 37 Weeks 3D

Today marks 37 weeks pregnant which is considered full term!  It seemed like it took forever with Lily to get to this point, but with this one the entire pregnancy has flown by.  I had my ultrasound and appointment with Dr. Norton yesterday.  Baby was super active on the ultrasound and the tech was laughing saying he/she was naughty.  I said...oh no...I can't have another one of those!  Baby was yawning big huge yawns, sticking his/her tongue out and playing with his/her hands.   Baby's head is a little larger than average at this point and is estimated to weigh 7 pounds 7 ounces right now.  In three weeks, or at my due date, baby should weigh right at 9 pounds.  I told her that I had a bigger than 9 pound baby the first time and she laughed and said "you're truckin down the same path!"  Dr. Norton said that right now they like to see baby at the 50th percentile mark and ours is at the 60th...so bigger than average.  None of this surprised me.  She said that I could still attempt a VBAC and that is the plan.  She said that as long as I know that things are up in the air and that I am okay with that then she is okay with that too.  However, with the gestational diabetes she won't let me go past my due date.  I am due on the 22nd...she is out of town from the 20th-24th.  I didn't ask and she didn't say then if that meant I would have to have it on my own by the 19th before having to schedule a C-section???  I'll have to get more specific next week and ask her that.  So, basically I have 2.5-3 weeks to go into labor on my own, and if I don't I will have a repeat C-section.  My labor with Lily was 24 hours long, pushed for 2 and then ended up with a C-section...something I want to avoid this time around.  Dr. Norton said that at anytime during labor (if I go on my own) that I could throw the towel in and say "I'm done."  Meaning...if I am not progressing and the hours are passing by that I can say "let's have a C-section."  That is my call.  I guess I thought I would have more answers after this appointment, but that is okay with me.  Nobody ever knows when a baby will arrive...right!  Baby's enter this world on their own time...when they are good and ready too, and that is why I don't want to schedule the birth of my baby.  He/she knows when they are supposed to be here.  However, if it comes down to safety I will not compromise anything.

Baby's heartbeat was 133 on ultrasound and 163 by doppler. 

An update on my other "baby"...LILY.  She is acting every bit of a 2 year old these days.  She throws fits and gets mad if she doesn't get her own way.  She thinks everything is "MINE!"  She can't say Lily so she calls herself Dilly.  Everything is Dilly's!  She continues to like "school."  This morning she wouldn't even eat breakfast...she couldn't wait to get out the door and in the car to go to "cool."  She had a rough night last night and I'm not sure why.  She has been waking up in the middle of the night crying, and it is the kind of crying like she is scared.  She may be having nightmares, but I'm not sure.  I do know that is very hard to sleep with 3 people in our bed at this point though, so Jason got kicked out and sent to the basement last night.  Sorry Jason!  Last night she only wanted "MOMMY!"  This was a huge surprise because it is usually the other way around.  She never wants me.  It is always her daddy that she asks for.  She yells at me and tells me to go all the time.  It made me cry the other night, but what do you do?  I sometimes feel like she resents me in a way because I can't get down on the floor and play with her right now like I used to do and daddy can.  Daddy can pick her up and be silly with her all the time, and mommy is just a lump.  So, even though I was sad that she was crying and had such a rough night it made my heart smile that she wanted her mommy.  :)