Today I started my last trimester (every two weeks) pre-natel check ups. I am thirty weeks pregnant this coming Saturday. My doctor is out of town right now, so she set up an appointment with another obstetrician that works out of the same building as her. Neil took the day off work today so he was able to come with me. Everything seems to be good.
At our pre natal class, the instructor was mentioning that it is “ideal” for the baby’s head to be down by week 30. This was worring me… because when I went for my last ultrasound it looked on the monitor as if the baby was lying sideways (across my belly.) So I asked this doctor if that is a correct statement for the instructor to make… and she informed me that at 30 weeks it is not a big deal if the baby’s head is not down. If at 34 weeks the baby is still not head down… then they will try to turn the baby. She also told me not to worry because in the ultrasound that I had done, it showed that the baby was head down. So that was a relief to hear. Atleast I do not have to worry about that. I found that rather misleading though… the fact that the instructor would tell us that.
Anyway I am glad that everything is going good. The doctor also said that my uterus measured 32 cm…. which should be according to how many weeks you are pregnant. For example… I will be 30 weeks pregnant… so from pelvic bone to top of uterus, the measurement should be 30 cm. She said that I may be a little further along than expected due to the fact that the baby’s size seemed normal during the ultrasound but that my uterus is 2 cm higher than it should be. Oh well, if the baby is born early… so be it. As long as he is healthy.