39 weeks down, two days to go!

This Wednesday is officially Baby Day!

39 weeks

I had my last prenatal appointment today, and confirmed that Tyler and I will report to the hospital at 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning for a version (externally turning the baby), with plans to induce and have Katherine Elizabeth make her grand entrance sometime that afternoon. The procedure will be done in the operating room however, with an epidural (ahhh), and closely monitored so that if it doesn't work or if her heart rate drops and stays low, the doctor can go ahead with a c-section that morning.

So, one way or the other - Wednesday is Baby Day!

Now, if you scrunch up your face in pain every time you read "version" or "turning the baby"...I hear ya..but did I mention the epidural?! Even though I've come to terms with a c-section if needed, I still want to do what I/they can to get her out the traditional way. My doctor seems pretty confident about the version - as long as baby girl cooperates and lets them move her around. She said that she'll have one person "driving the ultrasound machine" and she'll watch that as she literally pushes my lubed-up belly around. Apparently it takes 15 minutes or so, and from the sounds of it, this will happen around 8 that morning. If they're able to do that, then she should stay where they put her long enough for them to start pitocin and get the contractions to do their job of pulling her down into position.

Now all that's left to do is, well there is actually a lot to do, but I'll save that for another post! In the short term, I'm just a little nervous now about sleeping on Tuesday night. I'm not a great sleeper anyway, especially when I have something important to do the next day...like have a baby! And I'm just so emotional about little Ben and his about-to-change world, if you couldn't tell. I know he'll be fine...people have more than one child all the time! Right?!

So if you're thinking about it, I'd love your prayers for those things, as well as a cooperative baby and successful version and safe delivery regardless and healthy little girl and smooth recovery....have I hit my limit?! Thanks for checking in on us...we can't wait to meet this wild woman and welcome her to our family. Wednesday, here we come!