Not your average appointment

My child wants to make its presense know and in a BIG way! This past week we had our 34 week appointment (I'm behind again... I am 35 weeks now). Everything started out normal. I hit the 20lb mark, yuk. The baby is measuing about 4.5 - 5 lbs and the doctor tells us that it probably won't be bigger than 7 lbs at delivery. Then we went to check the heart rate, which was fine at first, but then all of a sudden dropped really low. So, the doctor has us move to another machine to montitor things a little better. The rate continues to be kind of all over the place high for a second, then low for a long time. Before I know it, a bunch of people rush into the room and start me on oxygen and getting an IV ready. Poor Jereme is shoved into the corner as they call an ambulance. Moments later the baby moves and the heart rate goes back to normal. They think that the baby just happened to lay on the unbilical cord when they were checking me, which I guess is something that probably happens all the time and goes unnoticed.
None-the-less, I still ended up having to go to the hospital for additional monitoring. By the time I got there my blood pressure was through the roof, go figure, so then they had to run another series of tests on my kidneys and liver to make sure all was ok. Also got another ultra sound and the baby was just fine. Five hours later, we're sent home perfectly healthy. Sure gave us a good scare and probably a hefty bill tho! Better safe than sorry I guess.

Funny thing is that it was Jereme's last day on the job, so he ended up showing up really, really late, whoops! His office threw us a surprise baby shower and happy hour, which was really nice. Needless to say, he will never forget his last day!

Appointments start weekly next visit, whoo hoo! They told me at the hospital that I am having a lot of small contractions already, but none that are consistant. And, I'm not dialated at all. After this last visit, I am ok with holding off on delivery for another couple of weeks :)