Cervix: Check!

Today I had another doctor appointment. The nurse asked me if I wanted my cervix checked. Hmm...how does one really respond to that question? I said yes because curiousity got the best of me. I can hold out on knowing the gender of my baby but not know if my cervix is dilated has been driving me crazy - go figure.

Anyway, my weight went up again. After two appointments of holding steady at 30 lbs of weight gain, i'm now up 34. All of those ice cream treats lately are catching up with me! Blood pressure was still normal and so was the urine test.

I asked about cord blood banking and donating to a public bank. Apparently the existing banks are full and they are only taking non-white blood or if you have a special condition, which I do not. Oh well.

So I had to have the group B strep swab..down there which was fine. The cervix check did not hurt at all. It was uncomfortable but not too bad.

I told the doctor I was hoping he would tell me I was dilated to 5 cm and had to get over to labor and delivery STAT. He said, "well you're not 5 cm. You're maybe 0.5 if I'm feeling generous." So that's that. I got nothin' in the cervix dept yet!

Some other fun things that happened - he made a guess as to how big the baby would be, although he confessed that he has a bad track record with estimating baby size on tall women. He thought that the baby was probably 7 lbs right now, maybe a little less and that if I go the full 40 weeks, he predicted the baby weight would be around 7 and a quarter. Not bad!

Also, we have received confirmation that the kiddo is head down! Sigh of relief! There has been this really hard part sticking out of my right side and I was worried it was the baby's butt. It's actually his/her knees! The butt is super high up in my rib cage, and therefore the baby is taking up basically my whole torso! Weird to think of it as that big! I have to confess that I still think of it the size it was at our 20 week ultrasound. So essentially it's tucked up like a little cannonball right now facing my right side. I guess we've been poking it in the knees then, and not the butt.

20 more days!