30 Weeks.... Not So Much

Today was supposed to have marked the 30-week goal.  I was so excited until the ultrasound tech told me this morning that I'm not 30 weeks but 29 weeks and 6 days.  WHAT?!!!  I told her that wasn't possible because it always changed every Tuesday,  and she thought maybe with the new 2012 calendar the day is off by one now thanks to the leap year.  Well just fabulous.  So this means my goal to get home is now delayed by an additional 24 hours.  Grrrr.  Now in my mind I can still think I'm 30 weeks but it won't matter because Peoria will be thinking differently anyway.  Grrrr again.

Today is my last day of the oral med (indosin?) that was a 72-hour med.  I will start the new oral med tonight at midnight (can't recall the name but it starts with a P).  I'm not sure how long I will be on the new med, but I suppose I am okay with them continuing to keep me drugged if it means our little man will stay put longer.  I still didn't have any contractions when I was monitored this morning, but our rock-n-roller does not like to stay put to have his heart rate monitored for an hour.  I was trying to give the nurse a break and keep finding him myself, but it wasn't always easy.  At one point she came in and said that my baby was being very cooperative today, and I said no - it was just me trying to stay on top of his movements.  Yep, I tattled on my kid.   Update: this afternoon's monitor session did not go as well.  I was contracting every 3 minutes then slowed down to every 9 and back up to every 5.  This means I'm now going to start on the new med very soon and will not finish up the indosin until later on this evening.  I'm worried about this evening's monitor session and am hoping and praying there are no contractions.  I really don't want to go back on the mag (the devil med).  The sad part is that I haven't felt one of these contractions.

There's been a lot of activity today.  I met the dietician and the neonatal case manager and the nurse manager this morning.  I also met another new doctor, who is pretty cool.  And I had a sonogram here for the first time.  They checked the full anatomy of the baby, and he looks perfect here too.  The pictures here were not as good as the ones I get from home, aside from one that the doctor got herself so I'll post that one below.  "Mac" is weighing in at 3 pounds 2 ounces right now.  Because I'm already dilated there was obviously no reason to check for cervical length since there is none.  The doctor also didn't feel it necessary to check to see how dilated I am right now- like she said, there is no reason disrupting anything down there right now.  Since I'm not contracting (or at least wasn't at the time when she said this), they'll just leave that area alone and not worry about how far I'm dilated.  As of Saturday night, I was nearly dilated to a 3 but without contractions now, that no longer matters.  I'm wondering if that will change and if they will check again maybe tomorrow if I continue to contract tonight - who knows.  If they do check again, hopefully they can still push baby boy's head back up like they did the other night.  That was the good sign - although he's low and head-down, he wasn't effaced enough yet so he could be pushed back up.  I don't want him to be a pushover forever, but for now it's a good thing.

I also wanted to clear up one thing that seems to be causing confusion - our son's name is NOT Mac.  That is just his nickname, but I never made that clear on the blog.  Why is his nickname Mac?  Because big sis' nickname is Cheese so we have our Mac n Cheese.  Yes,  Mac has a real name but we're keeping that a secret until his arrival..... which I am still hoping will be later rather than sooner.  Wish us luck tonight!

CHUBBY CHEEKS!!!