35/35!

What does that mean? It means I am 35 weeks today, leaving me with only 35 days left until my due date. For pregnant people... this excites us very much.

So I guess it's time for a baby update.

Thursday was my regular appointment with my Dr. and I pretty much told you what he said.

Yesterday I had my appointment for my Non-stress Test, Ultrasound, and the monitoring. My Mother-in-law agreed to watch my kids for me since I knew it would be a while. My appointment was at 1:00pm. I arrived to my hospital and they checked me in. I never done this before so it was crazy to me. They had to admit me into the hospital and they put me in triage. So here I am sitting in between two ladies are are completely in labor. Their husbands look as confused as ever. And they are literally moaning and huffing and puffing in the seats next to me.

So anywho I get called back and they put me into my little room and hook me up to all the monitors. Atalie was not happy and kept kicking them off. The monitored me for about an hour. I had 2 contractions. For the first time I was finally able to feel when a contraction started and then ended so I can time them.

They gave me lots of water to drink and I even took a short nap.

Then it was time to do the ultrasound. I was transported to another part of the hospital via wheelchair. That was kinda cool getting pushed to all the different places in a wheelchair.

So the ultrasound looked good. Baby is doing perfectly fine. She is already very low and it was very hard for the tech to even get a picture of her face. She somewhat did. They are worried that since I am showing signs of possibly going into preterm labor that she won't be big enough to come home with us right away. She's small and with me losing weight it's not helping the situation. They're hoping with the changes in my diet again and a few extra weeks then she will gain some weight.

So the goal as of now is to continue to be monitored twice a week to hopefully keep her in as long as possible. It is importnant that she gains a little more weight. But other than that they don't see anything wrong with her.

Overall I was there for 3.5 hours before they discharged me. And sent me home with a paper with all the signs of preterm labor so I can be aware and go to the hospital if that happens. I am really dreading having to be there for 3.5 hours twice a week from now on. I have 3 other kids that I have to be worrying about but a lot of people have been offering to help me out... so I will be taking up the offers. There's no way I could do this all alone. And Jr really needs to continue working until the baby is born.