{"id":100,"date":"2006-08-24T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/100"},"modified":"2008-02-09T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T20:54:45","slug":"32-weeks-and-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/100","title":{"rendered":"34 weeks and looking good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I start weekly visits. They will consist of a biophysical profile (BPP), nonstress test, and regular visit with the doctor. The BPP measures your baby’s heart rate, muscle tone, movement, breathing, and the amount of amniotic fluid around your baby. Megan scored an 8 out of 8 for this test. She measured right on with the due date, and they estimated her to weigh 5 lbs 5 oz right now. Which could put her at 7 to 7.5 lbs even two weeks early. This was amazing to me since Alyssa and Noah were both about 7 lbs at 40 weeks. The tech said that Megan looked great. I could see her heart pumping like crazy, one of the ventricles moving in and out as it moved blood, and even saw her abdomen moving as she breathed. She would not however look where we wanted her to get a good face-shot. But we did get a profile.<\/p>\n

The external fetal heart monitoring is used in a nonstress test that records your baby’s heart rate while your baby is moving and not moving. I sat and listened to her heartbeat for 25 minutes. The chart showed a good heartrate and good movement. She even responded well to the contractions. I did not feel any of them, but the test showed I had 6 or 7 during this test.<\/p>\n

All of this means I drove out of the parking garage with a smile on my face. Literally. I have felt that everything was going well, but today God really gave me the signs I wanted. So far, Megan is perfect.<\/p>\n

The only change of plans is that we may do the amnio on Wednesday afternoon the 20th, then stay over night and begin induction Wed night or Thursday. Either way, I think her birthday will be Sept 21 – assuming her lungs are developed enough to induce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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