Thursday, January 26, 2012

38 weeks

Today was a long appointment.  Our normal 20 minute appointment turned into two hours.  The baby's heart rate is on the lower side of normal and so I was put on the fetal monitor for 20 minutes.  The baby's HR dropped one time and took a little while to come back up which extended the monitoring another 45 minutes or so.  On the other hand, with movement the heart rate went up to 140-150 which is good.  The doctor is sure everything is okay and suspects that the baby's baseline HR is probably 120, the lower side of normal.  I will return to the doctor tomorrow however for a non stress test.

Baby's head remains very low.  I am 1.5 cm dilated and 60% effaced this week.

Everything looked great in the extended monitoring today so she doesn't suspect there are any problems, but I will keep you updated.

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