Sooo today is a tireddd day but I have things to do- including 2 meetings at the shul. We will see how that goes! My latest ultrasound guesstimation (b/c thats what it really is- it can go either 30% up or down), is the baby is 7 lbs, 13 ozs :) :) Ha! So when the ultrasound womyn told me that, she gave me this "thats a BIG baby" look. I want a big baby. I think big babies are healthy and strong and full of life. I fully predict I will have a large child, as I am a big boned womyn and the donor is 6'0"- if I had a 5 lb baby I would be worried!
He is in the 96% for his height and weight :) Hahaa. I think its funny. I'm enjoying it. However the bigger he gets- the less likely its gonna become that I have a vaginal delivery and I would have a c-section. Which means lots of fun medical stuff.. But at least it would be planned and over within a short amount of time. It means IVs, catheters (sp?), epidurals, stitches, oxygen most likely and cutting open my abdomen. And most likely for 2nd child another c-section.
And the other question would be when? I would say he can still grow for another 2 weeks which would make me around 38ish weeks and be around 9 lbs. But since there is such a room for error- what if he is only 6 lbs now and they are measuring wrong? Ya know? I don't want go into a c-section thinking I have a big baby and doing it prematurely and then end up w/a smaller child that I could have had vaginally...
It's something to ponder. I am not sure.. but I am not exactly at that cross-roads yet, but will start letting the thought ping-pong in my brain. At this point I would say that I hope to labor naturally, which also I believe will end up with IVs, epidurals, pitocin (thats the only thing I wouldn't have if I had a c-section), catheters, etc..
So we shall see. Ahh, the processes of a medical birth.
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~36w, 4d
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My grandmother had both my dad and uncle vaginally. My dad was around 11 lbs and my uncle was close to 12. And this was in 1946 before epidurals.
well I am not totally opposed to a c-section, but of course there are complications that could happen.. but, I don't know.. I guess we will see in the moment really!
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