Week 30: It’s HUGE!!!!

29 weeks, 1 day.

Had an OB appointment today, which went fine, for the most part. Blood pressure is back down, and baby is fine.

Well, except that he may be enormous… Both my OB 2 weeks ago and the midwife today measure him about um… 5 weeks larger than his gestational age.

Now… we know when this little monster was created. When he was a little little monster, he always measured a couple of days bigger than his gestational age, which is pretty much within the bounds of statistical error, so no big deal. He also has a father that is enormously tall, and uncle who was a very very big baby, and an overweight mom, so him being big wouldn’t be a surprise at all.

But… again, I’m overweight, and I had a belly pooch before the baby, which is still there. Plus I have a swayback, which makes my belly curve up. I think you can see where I’m going with this (read: he may not be as big as they think he is…) , but I guess we’ll see.

I get an ultrasound next week, so they can have a closer look at the actual baby. The thing is, I’ve read stories from a whole heap of mothers saying that they were measured physically and via ultrasound with 10+ lb. babies and the babies were only 7 or 8 at birth. So I’m not sure what to think, but we’ll see.

Practically speaking, for Small Monster, this isn’t a big thing, except for how he’ll be delivered. If he’s that big, it means a pretty good chance of a C-section, although I might find that they’ll let me try labor first. I guess we’ll see more next week. It may be that he’s just fine, but I think my epidural-free labor is looking less and less likely…

The upside is that I get to see Small Monster again, and maybe verify that he’s a he

So anyhow, all is good, and I’m not making this up. Small Monster just decided he liked to GROW, see…