I had my 39 week appointment and my blood pressure was the best I have seen in a long time at 124/83! I fully chalk that up to walking on the treadmill for 30 mins each day for the past few days! It’s definitely been nice to be able to do that and the boys have run off a lot of energy on it as well. My OB didn’t even mention the induction that the other OB had mentioned which made me feel good. Obviously she wasn’t concerned about baby’s size and knew everything was fine to keep going until next week if need be! She felt for baby’s head and baby was still head down. She examined me and said there was a HUGE bag of water between baby’s head and my cervix which I took as an excuse to try to get a new mattress! If my water breaks on the bed then we HAVE to get a new mattress right?!
I was 2 cm dilated and she stretched me to 3cm. She also did a good 10 second sweep that was not gentle but did not hurt at all which is funny because the previous week’s sweep was way more gentle and hurt more than this! After that last appointment there had been some light bleeding and cramping. I even woke up to some contractions that night the previous week but obviously nothing had been triggered since I’m now writing a 39 week update! Perhaps this sweep will get things going and get some good contractions going! However, I am writing this 3 hours after my appointment and nothing happened right away, so maybe we’re in this for the long haul. Josh did remind me that my due date isn’t until Friday so stop worrying but on the flip side, he also just wants to get the baby out.
I guess we will see if anything happens tonight or within the next few days. My OB told me to go book an appointment for next week because that usually signals baby to come out! So I did! Next Tuesday. So, we shall see if anything happens between now and then!
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