how pregnant is psocoptera? soooo pregnant!

[psocoptera]

...yeah, that's about all I got. It turns out I'm even slightly more pregnant than I thought in that the midwives think my due date is two days earlier than I do - this is really only relevant in that it means my cutoff for induction is two days earlier if I don't go into labor spontaneously, and I hope not to run out that clock in any case. Not that I'm anywhere near frustrated yet - I told the meeple a long long time ago that if it would stick around for the long haul, I would happily go to 41 weeks with it (=due date + 1 week). It has done a terrific, beautiful job of hanging in there and growing itself, so it's welcome to stay put until April Fools' Day (one of my two guesses for a possible birthday; the other, St. Patrick's, has been ruled out, as I seem to have failed to take after my mother and go into labor exactly one week before my due date.) I guess technically with this due date revision thing I could get impatient on 30 March, but that seems a little ungenerous given what a good meeple it has been. (Although the thing where the joints of my pelvis now ache continuously, I would not be real happy about that if it wasn't part of the meeple launch process.)

More pregnant than I've ever been, and now I'm even moreso. And now I'm even moreso. (It's filling up my torso...)

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[carnap.livejournal.com]

Keep us posted if any there's any breaking news on this important story. Good luck!

[bhadrika.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed they cared about a 2-day shift. Jazz's ultrasound moved his two days, and they said they wouldn't change anything "official" unless it was a difference of two weeks. I pointed out they could have skipped the ultrasound then, since two weeks earlier would have put concetion before the last period, and two weeks later would have put it after the positive home pregnancy test.

I'm voting for false labor on April Fool's Day, just to be cute...

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, I think it's not a shift in my due date as much as a small administrative mismatch - I've been using a date I calculated from having been charting (I think... I don't even recall exactly now where I came up with that date) and they must have calculated it slightly differently. I think my due date has always been the 23rd in their records and I just never picked up on it before. Like you say, it hardly matters (except for this question of exactly when the induction deadline would fall.)

[cereph.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'd been thinking that your due date was the 23rd, until I talked with mom and she "corrected" me and told me it was the 25th.

I'm definitely thinking of you, and hope everything goes smoothly!

[uncleamos]

Good luck!

[(Anonymous)]

Umm, two days. When did they make this revision. I was told at 13 weeks that the baby measured at 4 days early but, that they would not change my due date as there is that much variability even at 13 weeks in baby size. I was told that even at 7 weeks there is up to a day or two of variability in baby size(and I measured right on schedule at 7 weeks). So I would ignore the 2 days, ultrasound is up to 20% inaccurate in measuring size and weight of the baby. I can understand the impatience. I am only 23 weeks and I am already impatient to get this little loc ness monster out. Good luck on your april fools baby. :)
BTW: my keyboard, is half fried so some of the punctuation does not work anymore.
--rebecca

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Like I told Bhadrika above, I think my due date has *always* been the 23rd in their records, rather than the 25th, and I just never picked up on it until now. The 25th might have been something I calculated, or I might have just remembered wrong what they said, who knows, it really doesn't matter unless I go right up to the cutoff and have to get induced.

23 weeks! That's exciting! Is "loch ness monster" an indication that it moves a lot? Mine totally had a move I thought of as a "sea serpent" thing, where some little bit of it would sort of surface and glide past and go down again - it's less serpenty now that the bits have gotten big enough to actually feel angular. ::grin:: (And I'm really not impatient yet... it'll all change soon enough, I'm enjoying these last however-many days of it being like this. ::pets huge bellyful of meeple::)

[(Anonymous)]

yep definitely serpenty movements, also when we first saw her on ultrasound at seven weeks she looked like she had flippers, looked more like a sea serpent than a human.