32 week check-up for Curve Ball

I had a marathon morning.

First stop, a growth scan (ultrasound) at the perinatologist. Then, fetal monitoring, also at the perinatal center. Then, an OB appointment.

I'm sleepy from all that doctoring!

Here's the long and short of my visits:

Curve Ball is still big -- plenty big. She's looking on the ultrasound to be about 4 lbs. 13 oz., which is insane. At this point, most babies are somewhere around 3 lbs. 8 oz., which is about what she was last visit. Four weeks ago.

(And that is already bigger than either Cary or Dean were at birth!)

I keep getting visions in my head of the Stay Puft marshmallow man growing in my uterus. Oy.

The good news is, somehow, the doctors said that her rate of growth appears to have slowed a tad, and her abdomen (although still large) isn't AS large as it was, proportionately speaking.

So, the insulin is working! Now I just have to keep it up, so that her growth slows even more. Let's hope I'm able to pull that off.

Fetal monitoring was uneventful. I started a new book and dozed a little bit while it was going on.

And the OB and I had a good discussion about possible scenarios around delivery of this baby, since she is a chubster.

Although the doctor used words like "avoiding an obstetric catastrophe," which still are bouncing around in my head, actually she didn't stress me out or make me worried. I think that's the sign of a good doctor.

The bottom bottom line is that we'll know more about how Curve Ball is likely to be delivered around 36 weeks. But it's pretty unlikely they'll let me go into labor naturally. It's looking like either an induction, or a C-section. And possibly between 37 and 39 weeks.

How curious is it that I delivered TWO babies vaginally, but will probably have to deliver this ONE baby by C-section?

This is yet another thing to file under the "You Just Never Know What Life Has in Store for You" file.

That file in my house, by the way, is overflowing.