So, according to todays scan, Little Miss Jones is measuring perfectly average in every area except her ENORMOUS HEAD which is over the 100th percentile...... another big headed Jones child on the way! They estimated her weight to be 6lb and 4oz, although previous scans have always guessed too heavy by at least a pound, so I'm going to guess that shell be somewhere in the mid 8lb mark at birth!
In other good news, my amniotic fluid levels have dropped by 6 points which is great..... obviously giving up the sugar did some good.
I also had a chat with the perinatologist about Vitamin K - a shot given to the baby at birth. I have a bit of an issue with it anyway - it's given because babies are born with low levels of vitamin K (clotting agent) for the first few weeks of life. As they have been since the dawn of time. For some reason we now give them an injection to 'cover' them until their own systems kick in. We give them 9000x the average amount an adult has to do this. And the risk of haemorrhagic disease is negligible (1 in 100,000). As the baby has a 50% chance of inheriting my clotting disoder it makes no sense to me to fill her full of clotting aids because the risk of that is surely going to be higher than the risk of not having it. The Peri actually agreed with me. He's going to do some research, talk to the hospital Pediatricians, and then call me back. Hopefully he'll agree she doesn't need it - meaning I won't have to say no 'against medical advice' which is a terrific issue here and one I'd like to avoid, especially as I'm already doing it for the Hepititis shot they give them at birth too - something I'm really unhappy about giving an hours old baby.