37 weeks

Weekly check ups sure make the last few weeks of a pregnancy fly by! I found out at this appointment that I was GBS negative (a very good thing) that they had tested last week, that my blood pressure had remained good, that I was weighing the same as last week, that baby's heart rate was in the 150's and that I was measuring smaller again (34 weeks for being 37 weeks). No worries to be had though. The midwife still felt plenty of fluid and could tell that the baby was a good size. I was originally thinking that I would ask to be checked at this appointment to see if I was dilating (even though you can hardly tell when labor will start with this information, but was just anxious to see if the ball was rolling yet). Since my midwife last week asked if I wanted to be checked I thought this midwife would do the same, but she didn't and I was almost out the door when I asked if she minded checking me just for grins. Good thing she did! I was already 3cm dilated, 70% effaced and at a -1 station. We had previously been talking about me having to work that night and she strongly suggested that I did not (seeing as I was still a couple days away from being exactly 37 weeks). She did not want me going into labor at work that night with the possibility of not being able to go to the birthing center. (They highly prefer all patients be at least 37 weeks to birth there.) So I called into work that night and took it easy! Not at all a bad deal! Stay tuned...the ball is definitely rolling!