I had a doctor’s appointment today to follow-up on my hospital stay. I was told to prepare to be sent directly to the hospital again (and to have the baby this time) so I got about as much ready as I could while being on bedrest. (Still was waiting on two key deliveries, though, which got delayed due to protest curfews: one for dog food and another for deodorant!)
Thankfully, since my blood pressure has been stable, the doctor was comfortable with sending me home again as long as I kept up the monitoring and the bedrest. The goal would be to make it until 39 weeks. And then schedule an induction for then.
Basically by 39 weeks, the baby would be fully developed. But waiting any time past then would increase the risks for both me and the baby.
I had originally been hoping to avoid an induction, but I did at least feel a little bit better when the doctor said he didn’t think I would need to go in the night before for the balloon or any other tricks. And generally he said the process goes faster for the second kid.
So unless anything changes until then, we’ll be heading in to labor and delivery on Tuesday! Ahh!!
(Of course, that still might mean the baby’s not here till Wednesday… or Thursday… )
