November is finally upon us! It's crazy how short this pregnancy has felt, as well as how long it's felt in retrospect! At our last two appointments, my blood pressure has been elevated, and it seems high blood pressure is a concern, so I had blood-work done and had to do a 24-hour urine collection. Worse case, I'd have to have an immediate birth, resulting in a cesarean...but we got the results in today and all is normal. They said the last two blood pressures were probably just flukes...but regardless, they recommended I stop working; so today is my first official day of maternity leave. I was only planning on working through this weekend anyways, so it's not a big deal to me...and I got through my whole pregnancy without calling in sick once! Very proud of myself. I really just wanted to hold on through Halloween so I could compete in the employee costume contest, haha.
Zombie and Zombie Baby!
At our follow-up doctors appointment this morning, we scheduled ourselves in for an elective repeat csection for Friday November 16th. It'll be two days before my actual due date, which I chose because my chances of a successful VBAC decreases after my due date and I don't want to have a csection on the 19th (hospitals don't like scheduling elective cesareans on weekends) because that'll have me in the hospital on Thanksgiving (I refuse to be pregnant or in the hospital for Thanksgiving if I can avoid it). I also prefer the doctor who will be on-call that week, Dr. Wood...who even said they could get rid of my old scar, which healed pretty gnarly. Honestly, I don't think I'll last until the 16th...my guess is the 9th...but we figured we'd get this all situated, in case Levi wants to cook up until the end. If we go into labor before the 16th, we'll go ahead with our plan to attempt a VBAC. I'm nervous, but I want to do what's safest for my child, and at this point a vaginal delivery is still the safer, healthier option. Either way, we'll have our newest addition here in two weeks or less! Crazy thought... :)
37 weeks 4 days
Our little Hulk.
Trick-or-treating! :)
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