9 Months!

Well, we made it! I hit the 36 week mark on Friday which means I'm officially 9 months pregnant! I can't believe we made it this far. I thought for sure I wasn't going to make it this far!

I had a doctors appointment and an ultrasound on Thursday. The ultrasound went great! The first thing the tech told us was that the baby has a full head of hair already! I was amazed that you could see it on the ultrasound, but sure enough (once she pointed out what to look for), it was there!! I can't say I'm really surprised about it though, Josh and I both had full heads of hair when we were born, so it would have been a shock to have a bald baby. The baby weighs approximately 7lbs, 3 oz already! If I make it to 40 weeks, we have the possibility of having a 9+ pound baby! Unfortunately, the baby is still breech. It's still possible of the baby spinning on it's own, but the likely hood of that happened are much smaller now.

So, since I don't really want to risk it, we're going into the hospital tomorrow to have an External Cephalic Version done. We have to be there at 7:00am and they'll get me all prepped for it. The procedure will be done around 9:00am, assuming the doctors don't have some sort of emergency. I'll be getting medication to relax the uterus and then I'll have two doctors come in and try to spin the baby! The first doctor who told me about the procedure when I was 34 weeks, Dr. Love, told me that there is a 50% chance of it working. On Thursday, when I saw Dr. Wallace, she told me the chance was as high as 60-70% of success. While those are pretty good odds, I'm still trying to prepare myself for it not working. I was told that the doctors will only try to spin the baby for about 3-5 minutes. I guess it's one of those it's going to work situations, or it isn't. So they don't try for very long because it is uncomfortable (from what I'm told). After they try, whether it is successful or not, I will have to be monitored for an hour or two before I'm allowed to go home. I guess there is a less than 1% chance of the procedure putting me into labor. So while we won't be expecting it, we will be taking the hospital bag with us tomorrow just in case. Speaking of... We should probably install the car seat...

So, what happens if the procedure doesn't work? In most cases, I'll have a c-section done the week of July 10th. But I'm trying not to think about that yet.

I will try to update this tomorrow once we get home and let everyone know how we're doing. Though with my super slacker skills, don't be surprised if I don't update until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Please pray that our baby flips for us! :)