Baby #3: 22 Weeks!

Today I had my prenatal appointment. I met the OB, Dr. Spalding, for the first time. (I've been seeing his midwives for all the previous visits). He's nice and all, but let's just say I REALLY hope and pray he is not on call when I go into labor. He has three midwives who generally do the delivering unless he happens to be the one on call or their is an emergency or scheduled C-section. Even though he knows I've had two boring pregnancies and two easy, intervention-free labors (one in a birth center) he still had the audacity to suggest getting induced at 39 weeks just for the heck of it. Ya know, since I transition and push fast and don't want to risk having a home birth/car birth/rushing to the hospital. I said NO THANK YOU and laughed a bit at that statement. I mean really?! Why. I don't get it. I'm thankful that my OB for Julian was pretty hands off and never even mentioned such a thing and thankful for my wonderful birth center birth with Genevieve. I told Jordan if this man ends up being the one to deliver this baby then he needs to watch him like a hawk. No scissors near my lady bits and no funny business!

ANYHOW, other than that, my appointment was just fine. Baby boy's heart rate was 145bpm. My fundal height is measuring at 22cm, which coincides with my 22 weeks for once. With my other 2 I always measured a week or 2 "behind" (and yet my babies till came right around their due dates at 8.2lbs and 7.6lbs). Oddly enough, my midwife put my estimated due date at September 9th which would technically put me at 21 weeks, 4 days instead of 22 weeks. I'm not sure why she did that because that date doesn't line up with anything. I truly think she just used the little spinny wheel thing wrong. Haha! (And I say this because the baby is measuring at 22 weeks, my fundus is measuring at 22 weeks, and according to my non-professional calculations, I'm 22 weeks.) But oh well, whatever. A week or two off really does not matter in the grand scheme of things! Mostly, it just gets annoying when they say things like "oh, baby is going to be big/small, we can induce, we need to check your cervix at this date, blah blah blah."

So, that's the latest update! Just pluggin along over here at the Rossi household. Kids are happy and I'm feeling good. Julian just turned 5, which is crazy! Genevieve officially weaned about 3 weeks ago with a lot of prompting from me. I'm completely open to letting her nurse again when the baby comes, but for now it's just too painful. Jordan is busy with work (being a 24 hour caregiver to his grandma in Parkfield), studying for getting licensed (which is hopefully happening this Friday when he goes to Presbytery!) and writing sermons. I'm just doing my thing - trying to keep the house in order, organize park play dates, getting Julian ready for Kindergarten this fall, doing some major nesting, and trying to stay generally healthy and active.

22 Weeks! Baby boy is approx 15 ounces and 11 inches.