39w6d Arlo Update

Reader’s Digest version is that I’m still pregnant. Stop here if you don’t want details.

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My fluid level was AWESOME this morning – like triple what it was on Monday. So either I somehow drank a million gallons of water in the last three days (unlikely) or they measured way wrong on Monday (likely). But what that means is that I didn’t get induced today.

The baby looked great on the monitors today – lots of good accelerations and apparently the monitor showed I was having some contractions but I wasn’t feeling them. Dr B did do an internal exam and I am 3cm dilated and 80% effaced (I was 3cm & 75% effaced when I was admitted in labor with Mallory!). She stripped my membranes and told me to go walk a lot.

I decided to pick Mallory up from daycare just in case this was our last day before Arlo comes and she & I headed to Target & the grocery store to walk. There was no way I was doing the mall again today especially since it is a late work night for Rick and it was too much on Tuesday to be home by myself with my back aching like it was. We came home after our errands and tried to take a nap for an hour but one of us refused to go to sleep (and it wasn’t me) so now we are just playing. I am second guessing my decision to pull her out of daycare today, that’s for sure ;-)

I slept horribly last night – not sure if I was nervous about my doctor’s appointment or what but I was up all night. Then ~3.45a I realized I hadn’t felt the baby move in a while so I got up and drank some juice until I felt movement. Then I finally fell asleep at 5.15a, just in time to have to get up at 6.30a. Early bedtime for everyone tonight.

That’s all for now. I need to get some Mallory stuff down but we’ll do another post for that.