35 weeks

I had my OB appointment today. Obligatory can't find the heartbeat swap out the batteries everything's fine moment. Ugh. So that was fine. Then we went to lunch and then to the hospital for my non stress test and Doppler/ biophysical profile.  Everything looks good. I have had a bit less movement in the last four days, both in frequency and strength. I  am also having some anxiety about the increased risk of stillbirth. So they are having me come in twice weekly for monitoring. It's going to be a big pain, logistically but the dr said when you do it twice weekly it's 99.9% accurate at monitoring if the baby is ok. So I said yes. We are still looking at three- four weeks til the birth. I won't really know more til the next growth scan in two weeks . Which is a long, long time to wait.

Peter and James are very sweet about talking to the baby and saying hi, and James likes to point and say baby and then kiss my tummy. Which is as precious as can be.

I am pretty tired from our long day.  It's a weird week, mr is traveling for work and it's just us. It's not as bad as I was afraid it would be. Though dinner is a fiasco every night.

34 weeks IUGR

So that's new. Everything was going fairly well except for the discomfort and inevitable You Are 39 and have two children under four and are in your third trimester exhaustion.  And the stir craziness of winter inside with Peter and James and not being able to go out.

So today was my 34 week growth scan and baby is in the 7th%. My dr was very pleased with all the other tests, my blood pressure is great and the placenta and umbilical cord look good and there is plenty of amniotic fluid. Baby is moving well and practice breathing well. It's legs and head are fine, the stomach is small.  So I have to go back every week to the hospital for a more in depth non stress test, with a Doppler. And in three weeks I'll have another growth scan.

I had just relaxed and stopped worrying about the abruption and now this. Be ok baby.