75% Complete

We had our 30 week appointment with the OB today. Hurray! 30 weeks is 75% of the way to 40 weeks. The plan is to have a baby before 40 weeks, so we're more than 75% done with this pregnancy.

The appointment went well. I haven't gained weight, but no one's worried. My blood pressure was 99/65, which is much lower than it has been, but no one's worried. The doctor did do an unplanned ultrasound. We don't know why. Matt thinks he was killing time. He had a scheduled C-section in another hour or so, and we were the last patients of the day. So we got to see Elsie again. Her hands were by her face, and her jaw was moving; so we think she was sucking on her fist. She kicked a little. Her thighs looked kind of chubby already. There was a good amount of amniotic fluid keeping her afloat. He estimated she weighs about 3 pounds. (That's his guess not the computer's projection based on measurements.) The doctor was a little obsessed with her bladder. It was full, and he wanted to watch her pee; but she refused to urinate on command. We spent more time looking at her full bladder than we did looking at her face. It was a remarkably large bladder compared to her other parts. Matt was impressed with her self-control, her ability to hold it so well. I'm thinking of future diapering and wonder if she'll hold it a long time and then wet through everything when she finally does release it. We may have to double diaper her if we don't want to change the sheets and her clothes every time we change her diaper.

Also for no apparent reason, the doctor wants us to come back next week. We were supposed to start weekly appointments at 32 weeks, but he wants us to come back next week and then start weekly ultrasounds the next week. He said we're "special." We have no reason to think anything is wrong other than the fact that they've withheld concerns before to keep us from worrying needlessly. The doctor seemed impressed with everything he saw today, so we're assuming he's being overly cautious. We're seeing the other doctor next week, and I've wondered if he'll be confused to see us again before 32 weeks. I was certainly confused while making next week's appointment.

I did learn from the receptionist that their standard procedure is to contact ultrasound patients if the ultrasound tech is going to be gone for the day so that they can reschedule. If she's going to be gone for a whole week, they send you to the hospital for a non-stress test instead; but if they can just reschedule to another day that week, they prefer to do that. That's good. We'd prefer to do that, too.