Everything is coming along great!
I got the results from my Group B Strep test, and that is NEGATIVE! WOO HOO!!! I believe the positive test I had when I was pregnant with Abby was the beginning of the end for any hope of a successful labor with her.
Basically, this time:
I DON'T have to get to the hospital the instant I think my water breaks.
I DON'T have to get hooked up to monitors and sit still now! Moving around is MUCH better for labor, right!?!?!
I DON'T have to get IV antibiotics the instant I check into the hospital.
I DON'T have to subject myself to many needless interventions when my labor doesn't go EXACTLY as the hospital would like. (Interventions that, while intended to speed up labor, actually drag it out and essentially STOP it, leading to the need for a c-section.)
So, the plan is to stay home and labor as long as I can on my own and then head to the hospital when it's closer to "go" time. Last time I think we went too soon because we were not sure if my water broke or not. Because of the CHANCE it could have broken, I HAD to stay, and everything went downhill from there. My doctor even said recently that when they gave me the pitocin with Abby, they induced too soon, and that's why she didn't come out on her own.
This time, if it turns out I'm not ready, they can send me home to wait it out. There is not the need to immediately hook me up to IVs. Can I tell you how excited I am just about THAT?!?!?!
She also measured my belly and it's right on target still. After a quick check of my cervix, she told me that while it was closed, long and high last week, this week it is 1 cm open, but still long and high. While this does not mean I'm having a baby today, it does show that my body is progressing towards the goal and that also makes me happy. I don't remember ANY of that progress with Abby until we were in the hospital. This, too, is a good sign.
The NST (monitoring session they do twice a week on me and the baby) went well. Vicky said the baby looks great and I'm getting a little "irritation" which is causing uterine activity. Last week it was a flat line for the most part with a few contractions here and there. This week the line was a little jiggly along the bottom of the graph with a few spikes indicating contractions again. So, once again, more activity = good, right? : )
In the event that this baby refuses to come out, we scheduled a c-section date, so we know the latest date she will arrive now! At first the doctor offered April 4, but I really, really, really want to give the baby as close to 2 full weeks of "overtime" to get her act together before we resort to just cutting her out. I was 2 weeks late, so I figure that can be considered normal for this one, too. We moved it to April 8, and that's pretty darn close to 2 weeks.
So, I'm still due on March 27, there's this "super moon" thing happening on the 19th that has a bunch of superstitious mommies thinking we're all going to pop on that day, and there's always the scheduled April 8 end date. One way or another, this baby is coming out in the next few weeks.
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