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[poppyseed2012]

I measured 40 today! I'll be 34 tomorrow.

I also had an ultrasound and they estimated his weight at 7 lbs 10 oz!

This will be one big little boy.

Also, off topic, but on the subject of crazy hormones, on my drive to the appointment, the Cranberries came on the radio ("You've got me wrapped around your finger...") and I burst out in tears. I don't know why. Because he already has me wrapped around his little chubby baby finger? <3

[Kamiro]

Linger is such a beautiful song <3 Love the Cranberries. Yep, we're going to have healthy sized babes! Good!

[lovingthis]

My LO isn't measuring quite as far ahead as yours, Poppyseed, but still so big comparedto my other babies !

 My fundal height continues to be right on track, but at 32 weeks, baby's head measured at 36+ and they estimated him/her at 5lbs 11oz.....my biggest baby (at 38 weeks 1 day) was 7 bs 6 ounces.

When I could still palpitate baby's head ( it's too low right now), I could feel that it was big....so I suppose that it was nice to have the u/s confirm my own intuition. I feel good though that I sa that the abdominal circumference wasn't as far ahead of my dates as the head...and that is reassuring. I am more concerned about too big of shoulders than too big of a head ;D I am not (too) scared of a much bigger baby, so long it is healthily proportioned ;)

[Soon2bKaiaMommy]

I still dont know where my belly measures, the docs dont really tell me, guess i should ask next appointment. I did find out that as of the 26th she weighed 5 pounds 9 oz ! Doc says she will be around 8 ish (around due date)

[mlovesj]

I just had my 34 week appt yesterday and my fundal height measurement was 37.  I sort of took it in stride, but the midwife seemed concerned about both that and baby's position (she's kind of midway between head-down and transverse, but her head is cockeyed enough that she isn't really in good position to easily slide down where she should be).  I'm having an ultrasound to check on both next week....estimated fetal size as well as her position.  Meanwhile, I have a worksheet of positions to help get her into head-down in the next 2 weeks.  Otherwise, I'll be scheduled for a version.  I am such a go-with-the-flow woman when it comes to pregnancy...I keep feeling like she'll get into position on her own and is just enjoying the extra wiggle room right now...  hopefully my intuition is correct!  I had twins my first preg and the midwives believe that sort of set the precedent for my uterus having "large accommodations" which allows babies to move around more freely AND get bigger (last baby -my singleton- was 9lbs 14oz).  So looks like this one'll be big too...  Oh, and I also learned I'm excluded from the option of having a water birth at the hospital because of last baby's birth weight :( Sigh.

[lovingthis]

it doesn't seem fair to exclude your from waterbirth just because of baby's size. If there had been an actual shoulder dystocia that might be different...but really...worse case scenario you don't progress? or they have to get you out of the water to deliver baby's shoulders? Sometimes the rules that are put into place feel very arbitrary.

[mlovesj]

Lovingthis, what's esp irksome is that, really, I think the fact that I had a complication-free super fast delivery of my 9lb 14ozer should prove that my body can handle a lot!  It was a smooth, unmedicated delivery.  If anything, that should say that I am a great candidate.  Oh well.

[maryamrose]

I feel like these measurements are only accurate as long as the same person is taking them every time, and as long as you're measuring progress rather than how "ahead" or "behind" you are. my midwife's measurements consistently show that I'm measuring slightly ahead (like a week and a half). so at 33 weeks I was 34.5 cm. today, one of her apprentices did the measurement and located my pubic bone quite a bit higher than my midwife, and measured me at 31 cm at 35 weeks. 

[poppyseed2012]

I'm excluded from a water birth at my hospital because I have a BMI of over 35 (at nine months pregnant)! The birthing pools are new at the hospital, so the suits in the big offices have created ridiculous requirements out of fear and the midwives are not too pleased. The even more ridiculous thing is I can labor in the regular bathtub, which is less than half of the size than the birth pool and even more difficult to get in and out of. (their fear is that it would be difficult to get a large woman out of the tub if complication arise... um, the birth pool has doors!) 
 

Originally Posted by lovingthis 

it doesn't seem fair to exclude your from waterbirth just because of baby's size. If there had been an actual shoulder dystocia that might be different...but really...worse case scenario you don't progress? or they have to get you out of the water to deliver baby's shoulders? Sometimes the rules that are put into place feel very arbitrary.

[shastalily]

Originally Posted by maryamrose 

I feel like these measurements are only accurate as long as the same person is taking them every time, and as long as you're measuring progress rather than how "ahead" or "behind" you are. my midwife's measurements consistently show that I'm measuring slightly ahead (like a week and a half). so at 33 weeks I was 34.5 cm. today, one of her apprentices did the measurement and located my pubic bone quite a bit higher than my midwife, and measured me at 31 cm at 35 weeks. 

Totally agree with this.  I measured 35 cm at 32 weeks and then at my last appointment, just 2 days shy of 35 weeks another midwife first measured me at 34 cm, then said it was probably because I had my knees up so I put my knees down and she got 35 cm.  It is possible also that baby just had a big growth spurt before the last appointment and then he slowed down again.

[lovingthis]

Oh Poppyseed and  MLovesJ...I feel your pain...every hospital around here as "hydrotherapy" as an option, but each place has a different rule about water birth. At one...they will make you get out during transition...?!?!?! One they wil let you stay in, but the hospital's peds are so against water birth that they say it' fine...as long as you stand up at the end or do whatever you have to so that the baby's head is not born underwater. The last hospital ( an hour away from me) allows waterbirth, but has horrible reviews overall.This is without all of the other senseless rules that might exclude you. It makes it awfully tempting to just stay home in my own bath tub :)

[Kamiro]

oh are you flipping kidding me???

I know you're not but..good lord. Some of these darn policies are so asnine.
 

Originally Posted by poppyseed2012 

I'm excluded from a water birth at my hospital because I have a BMI of over 35 (at nine months pregnant)! The birthing pools are new at the hospital, so the suits in the big offices have created ridiculous requirements out of fear and the midwives are not too pleased. The even more ridiculous thing is I can labor in the regular bathtub, which is less than half of the size than the birth pool and even more difficult to get in and out of. (their fear is that it would be difficult to get a large woman out of the tub if complication arise... um, the birth pool has doors!) 
 

[Rowdie]

Originally Posted by lovingthis 

Oh Poppyseed and  MLovesJ...I feel your pain...every hospital around here as "hydrotherapy" as an option, but each place has a different rule about water birth. At one...they will make you get out during transition...?!?!?! One they wil let you stay in, but the hospital's peds are so against water birth that they say it' fine...as long as you stand up at the end or do whatever you have to so that the baby's head is not born underwater. The last hospital ( an hour away from me) allows waterbirth, but has horrible reviews overall.This is without all of the other senseless rules that might exclude you. It makes it awfully tempting to just stay home in my own bath tub :)

Stand up at the end?? They do understand the principle behind water births, don't they? Sheesh!

[forestmushroom]

Originally Posted by mlovesj 

Lovingthis, what's esp irksome is that, really, I think the fact that I had a complication-free super fast delivery of my 9lb 14ozer should prove that my body can handle a lot!  It was a smooth, unmedicated delivery.  If anything, that should say that I am a great candidate.  Oh well.

Why is that?  I was wondering this as well.. I got into it with my midwives when I ditched the glucose test... and they were like how big were your other babies, etc. and if I wanted a water birth... my biggest baby was almost 9 lbs-- 8 lbs 14 oz, and he had a (painful) but routine vaginal delivery... no tearing, etc.

But if I want to option of water birth they had to have something so I agreed to the fasting blood test (without the glucola sugar binge that makes me sick!) and my fasting blood sugar was super duper low... so... now I can have the water birth...

But it seems weird.

[lovingthis]

The midwives themselves seem to ge it, and apparently they had been "sneaking in" waterbirths under the peds noses, until they got caught red-handed one day ;D One midwife told me that she tried to make the point that she could go into the room on one of the other laboring omen,throw a bucket full of water down there, and that this would be no more detrimental to the baby than an actual waterbirth. The doctor said " yeah, well...semantics..." No kidding, right?