One week to go. Three centimeters. Eighty percent. My doctor said he wouldn’t be surprised if I had the baby tonight. I told him I’d see him next week. At our regularly scheduled appointment.
Don’t get me wrong. I am completely ready to be without child (at least on the inside), but I don’t need to get my hopes up. Especially since obstetrician is just a fancy name for fortuneteller. He thinks the baby’s a boy. (He may be right.) He thinks the baby’s in the seven pound range. (He may be right – especially given the fact that 7 lbs is squarely in the national average range… and the range of my previous babies.) He thinks I may deliver tonight. (He may be right.) However, just as I wouldn’t plan my life based on a call to the Psychic Hotline, I’m not holding my breath for water-breakage tonight.
But for any of you who fancy yourselves OBs in the making, feel free to venture your baby guesses – date of birth, weight, gender, even name – in the comments. And just because someone else said boy or 7 lbs 9 ozs doesn’t mean you can’t. After all, my doc is basing his whole gender/size theory on what his Ultrasound tech said. And he clearly knows what he’s doing!
5 comments:
I LOVE that you compare your OB experience to the psychic hotline. That's awesome. I hope you're in the hospital right now... in a good way.
My guess is that you'll make it until the 14th. Baby weight: 7lbs, 4 oz.
What do I get if I'm right?
The psychic hotline reminded me of Dionne Warwick. Hmmmmm.
Let's see - tomorrow, 8 pounds.
I'm voting a 7-lb boy. And you'd BETTER not have him before me. ;-)
P.S. Just noticed the B of M was a favorite read; I don't think I realized you were LDS!
With my first baby, more than one doctor assured me that it was going to be huge--in the 8-9 lb range or larger (and from the size my belly grew to, I can't blame them). Out came a 7lb. 9 oz. girl. Totally average.
With the second, I did not gain near as much weight and I really thought it would be no bigger, perhaps smaller. Instead, daughter no. 2 was 8 lb 3oz.
Who knows? No one! I have concluded it's impossible to predict.
Here's hoping you deliver soon! Having given birth myself only 6 weeks ago, the end-of-pregnancy dying to get it over with feeling is very fresh in my mind.
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