35 Weeks and a Doctor's Visit

35 down, 5 to go!!! Here's what babycenter has to say:

"Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew melon). Because it's so snug in your womb, he isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times he kicks should remain about the same. His kidneys are fully developed now, and his liver can process some waste products. Most of his basic physical development is now complete — he'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight."

Dr. G said pretty much the same thing today at my weekly checkup. He said he really has no hope that Baby Andrew will flip, as he seems to be awfully comfortable just where he is, with his head just under my ribcage. I asked him about a maneuver the midwife who taught our hospital birthing class this weekend told me about (where you prop your lower body way up and lie inverted for a while to urge the baby to flip). He laughed and said it at least sounded safer than a method being advocated a few years back where the mom-to-be was to hold some sort of burning incense stick between her toes. Oh, well!

Speaking of the midwife instructor, she mentioned that some babies are breech because their umbilical cord is too short for them to safely be head-down or for other very legitimate reasons. That made me feel better because it made me realize that perhaps Baby Andrew being breech is the very best thing in the world for him right now and it would be awful for him to flip. It's all part of God's perfect plan, whatever the case, so I am just going to look forward to meeting my sweet baby boy December 16 by C-section!

Dr. G also listened to the pulse of the umblical cord and said it sounded great. When he first put the heart monitor on my tummy to do the listening, Andrew punched it right off! It was so hard that even Dr. G jumped back and said "Doesn't that hurt?" Haha-that's my little athlete!

Tomorrow I go for one last ultrasound to check the baby's growth. I can't wait to get another really good look at him and see how he's measuring!