36 Weeks
I’m getting closer. 23 days till baby.
I woke up this morning in utter misery. My bladder infection was back, and with a vengence. I cried and prayed and made terrible whimpery noises through a shower and getting dressed, and then called the doctor as soon as her office opened this morning. I didn’t have a babysitter, so I loaded all the kids up and took them with me. This was totally against the office policy of no kids, but I was desperate for some relief. My regular appointment wasn’t until tomorrow, but they saw me today since I was up there anyway to pee in a cup.
They did a non stress test to make sure Abby Jo was doing okay through all of this. She was fine. My doc said that if this infection were to cause me to go into premature labor that she would just let me have her now, since I am 36 weeks. She put me on a different antibiotic. This is the fourth course of antibiotics I’ve taken, and the third kind. Hopefully, it will work. I’m not too confident, though. I would appreciate your prayers. The antibiotic makes me sick to my stomach, and I also have a cold or sinus infection or something that comes with a cough and sinus congestion. This pregnancy has definitely been the hardest for me, but I know it will be worth it real soon.
Babycenter.com update:
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She’s shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.
At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she’s in a head-down position. But if she isn’t, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an “external cephalic version,” which is a fancy way of saying she’ll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.
