38 Weeks

Today may have been my first real parenting experience in “life is what happens when you’re busy making plans!” Today was my scheduled and routine check up along with a growth sonogram. The sonogram was ordered by my OB last week, because Lil’ Peanut was measuring big. Let me just tell ya, lil’ doesn’t describe my Peanut anymore! The sonogram calculated his weight at 8.5 pounds, his head measurement at 39 weeks, his abdomen measurement at 40 weeks and his femur measurement at 41 weeks- I’m not even 38 weeks until today! Overall, he’s in the eighty-second growth percentile, for a newborn.



So, I leave the sonogram office thinking that my OB will want to talk about inducing-wrong! She gave us until Tuesday (also known as 4 days) to deliver naturally; otherwise, we go back on Tuesday to schedule a C-Section. I’m not sure how I missed this in the four books about pregnancy that I read, but apparently there are more risks or complication factors, for me, when inducing a large baby. FYI; anything over 7.5 pounds, at 40 weeks, is considered big. The average weight gain for a baby, at this point in pregnancy, is roughly a half of an ounce daily. So theoretically, in 4 days, he has the potential to weigh 2 more ounces.


I was a little discouraged after leaving the OB’s office, because I thought we had moved away from needing a C-Section, but “life is what happens when you’re busy making plans!” More than anything, I am so grateful that both of us have remained healthy through the last 38 weeks. We are beyond blessed.


So, I will be a mom in roughly 4-7 days.

Today was a good day.