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Here we are on our due date and still no baby. I'm still feeling good, no labor pains .. not that I know of anyways. The nursery is completed, her clothes and blankets have been washed, our bags our packed and ready to go .. we are just waiting on her to tell us when! We have another doctors appointment tomorrow, so we'll see what they have to say. Again, they will only let us go 41 weeks which will fall on Memorial Day, so I believe she will be here sometime this week! We cannot wait to meet her .. come on Baby Lash!A good friend of mine from high school, Michelle, was nice enough to paint our little girls name out of wooden blocks so we can hang them over her crib. Since we are keeping her name a secret here is what her first initial looks like! They turned out sooo cute!
Last week Ed put the dresser together so that we would be able to put all the clean items away before she gets here. We still have to put the hutch together but this will do for now ...
Here is our weekly email update:It's hard to say for sure how big your baby will be, but the average newborn weighs about 7 1/2 pounds (a small pumpkin) and is about 20 inches long. His skull bones are not yet fused, which allows them to overlap a bit if it's a snug fit through the birth canal during labor. This so-called "molding" is the reason your baby's noggin may look a little coneheadish after birth. Rest assured — it's normal and temporary.
Info from www.babycenter.com
Tuesday 5/12 was our last office visit. Her heartbeat was still strong and we were measuring on time. She said that we are now 3-4cm dilated and my blood pressure was 140/90. They said that it will spike as the body starts to prepare for labor but they took more blood just to be sure. She also said that she could strip the membranes between my water and uterus to see if that would help jump start labor, so we did. Here we are 2 days later and still nothing ... guess our little one is just too comfortable to come out! No talk of induction at this time as the due date is still in the future. Our next office visit is 5/19 and I would think that if shes still not here next week we will talk induction at that time. Again, our office will only let us go to 41 weeks.Stay tuned ... could be any day now!!
We had a doctors appointment yesterday. We were seen by a nurse since the midwife was at the hospital delivering a baby ... hopefully they'll be delivering our little girl soon. They said that my blood pressure was good and that we were now between 2-3cm dilated. Said that if shes not here next week at our appointment on 5/12 we will talk about inducing as they will not let us go longer than 41 weeks. Ed and I are ready to meet her!Other things going on ... we received the packages for our dresser and hutch. Just a few more days and the nursery should look complete!
The weekly email:Your baby has really plumped up. She weighs about 6.8 pounds and she's over 19 1/2 inches long (like a leek). She has a firm grasp, which you'll soon be able to test when you hold her hand for the first time! Her organs have matured and are ready for life outside the womb.
Wondering what color your baby's eyes will be? You may not be able to tell right away. If she's born with brown eyes, they'll likely stay brown. If she's born with steel gray or dark blue eyes, they may stay gray or blue or turn green, hazel, or brown by the time she's 9 months old. That's because a child's irises (the colored part of the eye) may gain more pigment in the months after she's born, but they usually won't get "lighter" or more blue. (Green, hazel, and brown eyes have more pigment than gray or blue eyes.)Info from www.babycenter.comWe're still getting ready for her arrival. We've got the car seat bases in place, bags are getting packed, laundry is getting done and our dresser and hutch should be here this week! I'll be sure to update everyone after our office visit this week on 5/6!
