Finally, some baby news!

We finally have some baby news! I went in this morning to have the baby monitored and my blood pressure checked. Once again the baby was perfect, moving around a lot and with a strong stable heart rate and my pressure was 116/56 (C'est parfait, as the French are so fond of saying). While I was there I also saw my doctor who has returned from vacation. He is slightly concerned because my uric acid is higher than normal and rising with each blood test. Tomorrow we go back for another blood test and monitoring. If my uric acid is still going up he will give me a gel to soften my cervix and then he will induce labor on Wednesday. If the blood work is okay I will go in Wednesday night for the gel and he will induce Thursday. Of course I can still go into labor at anytime but no matter what happens it looks like we will have the baby by this weekend!

We are so excited at the thought of having the baby soon! The hospital requires that I stay for three days following the birth so we should be home Saturday or Sunday. Josh will take off next week to help with the baby. The following week my mom arrives for two weeks so I will have plenty of help for the first three weeks.

We do have a new problem with one of our cats, Jingle. He seems to think we have set up the babies bed for him. We keep finding him curled up asleep in the bassinet. We have had the bed set up for weeks and he just discovered it. We are now trying to come up with a plan to keep him out of the bed. Besides for that I think we have everything ready at home for the baby. He has lots of clothes and plenty of blankets and a few toys. I am sure we will have to go shopping once he gets home and we realize the things we have forgotten. We have a baby store about two doors down and another one a couple blocks up from our apartment so there should be no problem.

We will try to keep everyone posted about the birth, if I come home tomorrow night I will post. Otherwise I will be at the hospital having the baby!!

Exciting Tuesday Night

We had our 3rd ultrasound last night and everything looks good. The hospital has a new prenatal unit which sounded great but in reality it is a couple of rooms in the stuffy basement. We did get to use the new ultrasound equipment which was really cool. I don't know anything about the technical aspects but they had a huge flat screen at the end of the table where we could see the same screen the doctor sees.

They measured all his little parts and he is a little bigger than average but we think they might be comparing to petite French babies so he is probably just right for a BIG American baby. He is running out of space to move around so he currently has one foot wedged under my rib cage. I thought it was some baby part and the ultrasound confirmed, one giant foot! We tried to check out the maternity ward but they are opening a new maternity ward next week so we had no luck.

We also picked up a new painting we bought "for the baby". It is even better than we expected. Josh took about a million pictures of the painting so hopefully he will have time to post one and also some from the ultrasound. We had to rearrange all of our artwork (now 3 whole paintings) to accommodate the new masterpiece. I am sure Josh will post the details with the painting some time in the near future.

That is probably the most exciting night we will have all week and it left me exhausted. I had to go to bed at 9:30 which left Josh hours of time to edit his photos.