Tuesday, September 8, 2009

ultrasound 35 weeks

Well we just got home from our ultrasound. Olivia is still measuring big in her belly, and they can't really tell if her liver is enlarged. Her belly is in the 90th percentile.The tech said it didn't show typical signs of anything wrong with the liver, which I guess would show more openings in the ducts. Her educated guess is that she is chubby. She showed the information to the perinatologist before we left and he though the same thing, but wanted to keep an eye on her, so scheduled an ultrasound in 10 days on the 18th. I really liked this tech, she was really nice and spent a lot of time explaining the different parts. One thing she mentioned several times is how much hair she has! I'm curious now to see what it looks like! She said she got the good hair gene since she has long eyelashes too! Anyway they said she is measuring about 6lb 8oz now but she also said as more time goes on and I get closer to term, the less accurate the machine is. The bad news is I completely forgot to bring a cd. She gave me paper pictures but I'm not sure how to scan them on to here. Really the pictures aren't as good as my 20 week pictures since she is so big now and you only see parts. She still likes to have her hands up by her face but at one point held up her hand and gave the "I'm number one" sign. The tech printed a pic of that one. She also tried to poke her a little to get her to move her hands, and John said it was funny because you could see Olivia open her mouth startled and jump. She was busy moving in there though and the tech said everything else looked great. She is breathing well in there, has enough fluid, heart rate is 150 (which is perfect) and they can even look at her blood pressure somehow and that is good too. So I am hoping they are correct and she will just be on the chubby side... I'm still guessing they will induce me early with her measuring like this. I guess I am technically term next Thursday at 37 weeks but I don't think they would induce me that early ( I hope not! )

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