This morning we headed down to the hospital for my 35-week checkup with Dr. Pacquadio. As she started up the ultrasound we quickly noticed Mr. Brayden had his arm in front of his face yet again. He has pretty much been in this position every time we have seen him which is pretty funny. I like to think he is already trying to cover up his lip and he isn’t even out of the womb yet! The other thing we noticed when I laid down was that he has dropped and she confirmed this with the ultrasound. His head is already descending which doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things but it’s reassuring that nature is taking it’s course. We couldn’t get a good look at the cleft side of his face because it was buried deep into my pelvis but we did get to see the left side of the face which showed us that he has chubby cheeks and a cute button nose like his sister. She also pointed out that he has quite a bit of hair on his head so we all instantly commented that he is going to take on Jim’s coloring. She also thought it was interesting how fair Payton came out gaining both sets of our recessive genes. But we shall see what we get in a few short weeks! Towards the end of the visit I ask her about what we had talked about at our last meeting in regards to changing the birth date from the second to the first and she gave me a huge, “no problem!” She must have been in a better mood today! So for now we have an amnio and pre-op scheduled on Halloween at 8:30 am and then my c-section is scheduled for 12:30 on the first. The c-section was an add-on appointment so it is very likely that if someone who was scheduled that morning goes into labor early that I would be placed into that slot. The downside to all of this is that if they have someone who needs an emergency c-section that I would get completely bumped from the first and given whatever day/time was available next. Fingers crossed! But now that I have my date scheduled he will come early even though the doc thinks I will make it. I sure hope she’s right! I have an appointment with my midwife on Friday so we will see what she has to say!! 

Some other things she noted today:

* measuring 6.6 pounds, this is obviously a guesstimate but she is thinking we will have another eight pounder like Miss P. 

* body measurements are measuring two weeks ahead of 35 weeks, this isn’t anything new. I think his left femur measured in at 37 weeks 3 days. Can we say long legs? 

* Kidney’s are still okay and even so we jumped that major hurdle. 

The pictures are all of his squished face in my pelvis but you can clearly see his chubby cheeks, perfect nose and his arm going across his face. He looks like he is all balled up keeping himself warm or something. Unlike his feet which were trying to escape through my upper stomach. 🙂 

Hi Everybody! I will see you all in 28 days!