Weeks 25-37 Continued .... the baby
A lot has happened since week 24. At that point my wife was still very small, everyone didn't even know she was pregnant. Now, she is pregnant for sure but people can't believe that she is almost due. She is due in 2 1/2 weeks and she looks like some females due half way through their pregnancy. I'm not sure exactly way this is, maybe it's genetics as her mother never gained much weight either and is still small today. Maybe, it's the fact that she was very active during most of her pregnancy and ate well. Or maybe it's because it's her first pregnancy. What ever the reason, I don't really care. I think she looks spectacular and is still sexy in my eyes.
We see movements consistently throughout the day, my wife is still more fascinated than myself. I enjoy watching it for a few minutes and then I become a little bored. I think she is more interested because she can feel it at the same time. When the baby moves her entire stomach area moves, we still cant make out any body parts.
We've had four ultra sounds now, the reason for the third was because the doctor couldn't tell if the baby had turned or if it was breech. The baby ended up being breech and is slightly below average weight, which means more appointments need to be done. The doctor says that it is not anything to worry about. He just wants to monitor movements since it's so close to the end.
With this news my wife struggled a bit just because she had a pregnancy planned that involved a natural birth with limited drugs, hopefully late, and speedy recovery. Now we are looking at having the opposite in each of these categories. It's obviously not the worst thing that could happen and therefore we are happy, however slightly frustrated because everything was going so well. A couple positive that comes out of this is that we will know exactly when the baby will be born because my wife will need to have a cesarian section and she wont need to go through hours of labor. So maybe this is a blessing.
At the same time a friend of ours who was due near the end of Aug was admitted to the hospital because she was having contractions. She stayed for two days and everything is great now but her due date has been moved up considerably as she can go anytime. But I know my wife and her and they will probably go within a day of each other.
Tonight we had our hospital tour. In my opinion it was a complete waste of time, yes we saw where to go and heard what would be going on, but really I think I could have read the signs and I'm not going to know what is going on anyway. I think my wife felt better after the tour though, so I guess it was worth it.
In the next week or so we have a few other appointments my wife has another ultrasound, a non-stress test, and weekly check up to monitor the size and position of the baby.
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