Doctor said, "Wow!" 37 week appointment

Well, the baby is officially full term but he has another 3 weeks to keep maturing.

I had a couple of minor scares today at the doctor's office. First he had trouble finding the heart beat. I figured the baby was just in a weird spot because I felt him do a funny roll on the way to the appointment. Patches felt like he was up in my stomach all morning.

And then it's never a good thing if your doctor says, "Wow" during an internal exam. And that's all he said! I'm sure my eyes got huge because the nurse patted my arm.

Finally he said that he couldn't tell the baby's position. The doctor couldn't tell if he was feeling Patches' head or his bottom. And then he said that the baby was measuring BIG!

I was pretty much speechless, trying to process the possible change. The nurse was great at reassuring me. She remembers the previous miscarriages and knows all the worries that are automatically built in with this pregnancy. We'd still have a baby, he just may have to come a different way than we'd planned.

I had to wait 30 minutes for an ultrasound. I tried to read in the waiting room but who can concentrate when you might be scheduling a c-section surgery next.

The ultrasound tech put the wand on my lower belly and said, "IT'S A HEAD!" The baby is thankfully head down but he's all stretched out and floating up high. I guess that's why the doctor said he was big with just the fundal measurement on my belly.

I also have a lot of amniotic fluid, supposedly high normal. I'm not going to go down that google path since it can mean there's a problem. I don't want to know all the negatives at this point. I'll just go with what the u/s tech said, more is better than too little and it was just on the high end of normal. I know at 37 weeks the amount of amniotic fluid starts to decrease so maybe mine just hasn't started to yet.

He's measuring two days behind my estimated due date so he's not really big at all. She estimated his weight at 6 lbs 5 oz which is in the 50% percentile.
Normal, Dr. S! Normal! Since the baby is supposed to gain a 1/2 lb a week, she guessed he would be 7.5 to 8 pounds at birth. Again, normal! Whew.

She printed out a picture for us. The baby kept yawning over and over. You could see his little mouth open and close. I guess we were disturbing his sleep with all the commotion. He also has a full head of hair. According to the tech, it's a lot of hair! Daddy might be jealous. ;)

She did kind of goof up by asking me what my other babies weighed at birth. I guess she saw this was my 3rd pregnancy but didn't catch the miscarriage part of my chart.

It's still hard to believe we could have a real baby here soon. And he's head down and measuring normally!

Now if he'd just engage (drop down into my pelvis) and give mom a chance to breathe.