Due Date

 

Well, we have some exciting news... we are scheduled to have a C-Section on June 9th!

At our appointment yesterday, everything was looking really good. No more drops in heart rate or any sign that Adelyn is under stress. In fact, she's grown a lot! She's back in the 50th percentile!

However, with a two-vessel cord baby, the further along we go, the riskier it gets so our doctor wanted to find the balance of keeping her in the womb as long as possible but also getting her out as soon as we safely can.

Sooo.... June 9th at 7:30 a.m., Austin and I will check in to the hospital and be holding our baby girl a few hours later! That's assuming she doesn't decide to make an early arrival and if she's anything like her mamma, she may just do that.

We've chosen to go the C-Section route for a lot of reasons that I won't go into in detail about. Simply put, it isn't worth the risk for us to try to have a natural birth when it would likely put a lot of strain on Adelyn's heart and also likely end in a C-Section anyway.

It's taken me a while to adjust to the fact that we have a scheduled time to have our baby. All my life and especially the past 8 months I've envisioned it happening so differently. Never did I think of it as a scheduled appointment. But at the same time, there is a peace that comes with knowing that she won't be born any later than June 9th. I feel like for the past month I've been head down, putting one foot in front of the other, just getting through the day. Now I feel like I can finally look up and see the end is near. Well, I guess it's more of a beginning. But the end of pregnancy.

We're excited.

Unfortunately my body won't keep up with my excitement and all the preparations I want to make before then. I imagine this is just the beginning of not being able to get stuff done in the timely manner that I want to.

12 days left!