Your baby is gaining about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds and is a little less than 19 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy hair that covered her body, as well as the vernix caseosa. At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Babies born between 37 and 42 weeks are considered full-term.)
Cool. Except I had miscalculated everything for some reason and thought that I only had 1 more week to get through before Dad arrives. It's 2 more. Grr.
Had 2 very lengthy appointments at the OB / High Risk clinic yesterday. Not because of anything wrong with me but because there were emergencies going on all over the place and I was kept waiting for 3 HOURS. That's what you pay the big bucks for here in the US. And all for the priviledge of having cotton buds poked in places one doesn't want cotton buds poked. I did manage to get a few of my questions answered though and I'm fairly reassured on some fronts.
Today I started regular Heparin. Filling the needles from vials manually is a bit of a faff, plus I have 2 shots per day instead of one, but I guess I'll get used to it. Whichever DR it was said that the Heparin needles are lots smaller was lying - they're exactly the same size. Ohh I and I get to not take baby aspirin tonight. And I get to take half a dose of the beta blocker. I shall rattle a little less tomorrow.
The nurse that I saw at the high risk place was really lovely yesterday and after asking me for full details of what happened when I had the Pulmonary Embolism, pulled me into an enormous hug and said she wished me the best and that nothing would go wrong this time. Bless. I could have cried.
Today we've been mostly de-cluttering the playroom and tidying up (major task) but also took a mid-day break to the mall because I had a hair appointment. Gareth took the boys to play on the boat play-structure they have there which went down well with them. Needless to say the playroom, despite maybe 5 hours spent on it today, is not finished. Good job I miscalcuated how many weekends we've got left really.
G and I are off out tonight for one of our few remaining chances to do so for the next few months. First task is to buy a gift card from the pet shop for Dylan so that when the baby comes we can present him with enough money to go and buy the sodding FISH that he is desperate for. Going to get him a small aquarium and all the bits, but obviously I cannot take that to give to him at the hospital so I shall get the man at the shop to tell me how much money it'll all cost and get a card of that value for him. Hopefully the stupid fish will last longer than the stupid sea monkeys that died recently. I hate pets.
We're then going for dinner at a new snazzy restaurant / wine bar in town followed by seeing Oceans 13 at the cinema. Sitting for long periods of time in the movie theatre is not getting any easier but I really want to see this film so hopefully it'll keep my attention away from the aches and pains that will ensue.
Did I mention how much my back has been killing me this week? Last night it was so painful I could barely walk nor get remotely comfortable in any position on the couch. I think I might attempt to book a pre-natal massage sometime this week, that or a chiro, my whole pelvic area and hip area is really really sore. Ah well, not long to suffer it :)
Posted by katie at June 9, 2007 09:21 PM