4th Weekly Appointment

Things have definitely made a turn around since last week! One week ago I came home feeling extremely worried and uneasy after watching Hawkins just lay there so still during the entire 30 minute BPP. The following day, Friday, I had felt him once the entire day. I was so close to making the trip to Birmingham to go to the MEU to check on him. Thankfully, he gave me some good movements before falling asleep that night. I kept an eye on his movements over the weekend and with each passing day, they became a little more frequent.

On Monday we went in for just a BPP, in which he passed within the first 10 minutes. That was pretty reassuring. 

I went into today's appointment anxious to talk to the doctor about a few things and also to see if we were going to take his measurements this time. 

The door to the exam room opened, and I prayed it wouldn't be a fellow or someone else who would breeze in and breeze out. I was relieved to see Dr. Davis come in! 

One of the reasons he's my favorite doctor is because he actually sits and takes the time to talk to you. I had briefly seen the nurse practitioner before he came in, and I had explained to her an episode I had last night. The side of my head suddenly hurt so bad and didn't go away for over an hour. During that time I couldn't read anything- I saw words but could not for the life of me put them together to understand what I was reading. My eyesight felt partially gone, and shortly later, the whole right side of my face, hand and arm, went completely numb and felt like it was swelling. Eventually that went away and I took some Tylenol before going to bed early. 

I told the nurse practitioner about this and how I think it was probably just a migraine of some sort but that at the time, it was kind of scary. She brushed it off, called it a migraine and 'completely normal'. When I told Dr. Davis, he agreed that's most likely what it was, but that he didn't like what I described and that if it happend again, I needed to come in right away.  

We also discussed that when I turn 37 weeks, we'll begin talking about delivering him. I'll be 37 weeks in a week and a half- not next appointment but the following one. So it seems like we could have a last week of August baby or a first week of September baby, depending on when we discuss this and how Hawke seems to be doing up until that point. 

We went to get the BPP done and everything looked great, but sadly Hawkins failed his test. He wouldn't do a practice breath... Again. So we were sent over to do the NST which he passed with great heart rhythms and accelerations. I feel like that scenario is the typical one that happens more times than not: everything looks good, but he fails because he won't do a practice breath... we do the NST, which he does great on, then we leave.

One joyous piece of news is that he is now HEAD DOWN!!!!!! If you can't tell my excitement from that, let me say it again: he has moved HEAD DOWN!!! :) I was getting so worked up over him being breech and the possibility of having a c section. That was so far from what I wanted and it was giving me so much anxiety anticipating that, along with everything else. I know it may not seem like a big deal, but this was super important to me and I am absolutely elated and on cloud 9 that I got to leave today's appointment knowing he was head down. Now... If I can just figure out how to ensure he stays that way ;)

Unfortunately we didn't get any measurements of him today, but we will be getting them next Thursday. I am so curious to see how he's grown because his movements feel so much more powerful now, it has me thinking he's grown a ton!! Or it may just be his new positioning and the fact that he is HEAD DOWN now :)