Met with the nurse practitioner this morning (my doctor was unavailable). The baby's heartrate is good. She still has not dropped (she's apparently sitting on my pubic bone and eventually needs to slip below that). I need to get out and do some walking to encourage the little booger to drop.
So yesterday I thought I started feeling some weird sensations and thought it could be contractions (I still feel like an idiot because I don't really know what they are supposed to feel like)...I think it was since I am about 1 cm dilated now (they were very sporadic and inconsistent, but at least my body seems to be practicing for the real deal). Not tremendous progress but at least something is happening!
I asked the NP how far past the due date they let you go before inducing (hey, I was just curious)...she said 1 week, and they would usually induce you on the day that your doctor is on call in that week timeframe.
I have my next appt on 2/21 with the NP again (my doc is out of town next week) and will have a "non-stress" test. Basically they test the baby's heartrate when she's moving versus when she's still to make sure it's fluctuating appropriately (which in turn means the placenta is still functioning OK...I guess as you get further along the placenta's functioning can start to deteriorate and they just have to make sure that's not happening).
Then she went ahead and had me schedule another appt with my doctor for 2/27 in case I haven't birthed by then, so we can check progress and discuss scheduling my induction (my doctor is on call on 3/1 so that's when it would be if it's needed). So we'll definitely have a baby by 3/1 at the latest!! But, the NP said since things are finally starting to happen that hopefully this will all happen naturally and we won't have to worry about the induction.
We'll just continue to wait!!
Happy Valentines Day!
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