I am officially 37 weeks today (if due dates are at all accurate) and can now give birth at home with my midwife. 37 weeks is that "magic" date where all of a sudden the baby can most likely survive at birth without any breathing complications. One book I was reading recently said that the baby is usually full-term by 35 weeks but the medical community adds 2 more weeks to that to compensate for due dates possibly being off.
So, I've decided to put a poll on the website to see what everyone thinks we are having, so please vote (and please only once per person). I will give you a little info on the pregnancy and previous pregnancies to see if it influences your answer at all. This is the first pregnancy I have had where I haven't thrown up at all. I was the most sick with M&M, second most sick with Blondie, third with Kitty and with Luke I was only sick for about a week. We found out the gender of babies one & two (M&M & Luke), but before the ultrasound my guesses were boy for both. With Blondie I was pretty confident that she was a girl and I was pretty confident that Kitty was a boy. :) So, I have been about 50/50 for my guesses so far. I must say though that with M&M's pregnancy, since it was my first, I didn't really have anything to compare the pregnancy to & DH really wanted a boy first. So I think it may have just been wishful thinking more than anything else that I thought M&M was a boy. Kitty's pregnancy was just different from the rest of them & we were very much surprised when I found out that I was pregnant. I didn't really have a lot of "morning sickness", but I did start out the pregnancy with severe back & neck pain which laid me up for a couple of weeks - to the point that I finally went into the doctor to get checked over and felt like I should take a pregnancy test to rule that out. They gave me some prescription pain medications & the next day I got a phone call saying, "Congratulations! You're pregnant!" That quickly put a stop to me taking the prescription pain medications...
So, good luck on the voting! If you have any questions you want to ask me before you vote, feel free.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Pregnancy update - 37 Weeks!
Posted by Steph at 3/26/2008 11:13:00 AM
Labels: pregnancy
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