Baby Update -- *Oink, oink"

I went for my checkup today and had the third and final doctor in the practice, who I love. I've actually met him before and he's fantastic. Anyway, you don't care about that.

On to baby news.

First, Billy and I went in for an ultrasound. Billy was running late and almost got a speeding ticket trying to get there. Luckily, the cop pulled over the guy behind him. Also, irrelevant.

Anyhoo, at the ultrasound we found two things out. One Squirt is a little piggy. He's a big boy - in the 86th percentile, which is pretty astonishing since Billy and I are...not. He was all squished up so it was hard for them to tell but they thought he weighs about 7 lbs, 11 oz.

The second thing we established is that we were right - the poor kid has a Filipino nose. It's like...all I could focus on during the ultrasound (we had a regular ultrasound and a little bit of a 4D ultrasound to look at his face).

So, then we saw the doctor, who told me I'm 85% effaced but still 1 cm dilated. But then he said, I probably won't dilate more than that until I'm actually in labor because I have some scar tissue from an old procedure.

The doctor also thought that they might start thinking about inducing since Squirt is so big and my fluid looks a little low. I'm hoping we don't have to induce. We'll see.

And since my fluid was low, they made me do 25 minutes of fetal monitoring. Where I learned that I was having the type of contractions that normally make people squirmy and tense, but apparently, I just slept through them. LOL whoops!

Gettin' there!