32 Weeks

It's finally here - the magical 32 week mark.  The goal was for me to stay pregnant until week 32 so I could go back to the Quad Cities where a 32 week baby should be able to stay safe and sound in the NICU there without having to be sent back to Peoria.  I've held up my end of the deal by keeping this feisty little bugger inside of me for this long; now it's time to see if the doctors hold up their end of the deal and let me return home (or at the very least, my home hospital). 

I talked with the head doctor again this morning and pressed him as to when exactly he planned on contacting my doctor at home.  He told me he would call her today.  Prior to that, he wanted to see where the baby was at size-wise and where I was dilated, so I had another sonogram today.  Lil Mac is weighing in at 4 pounds 1 ounce, putting him in the 49th percentile.  I am dilated the same (between a 1 and a 2) so all is good there.  So with all that in mind, I'm hoping that my local doctor will think it's a good time to send me home.  I am worried, however, that the local neonatologist will want to hold off simply because of his experience with Adalynn.  I'm just waiting to see what happens, but of course I've been waiting all day and haven't heard a thing yet.

Once again, the ultrasound tech (different gal than the last time) commented on the quantity of our buddy's hair.  She pointed out this thick white fuzzy halo around his head, which apparently is his mane.  Wow.  She even measured his locks- 1/2 inch long!  I guess first item on the agenda after his birth is to find a good barber for our little hippy boy.

It's funny because we were so focused on getting to 32 weeks that it feels as if we're also at the end of the pregnancy - like the 32 week mark is the same as 40 weeks.  Obviously that's not the case at all, but considering this is the longest I've ever been pregnant, it feels like a really long time.  I need to get out of this mindset though because 32 weeks is still too early for Mac to arrive.  I was told today that white boy babies are the weakest when born too early.  So I suppose I should set another goal.  Let's shoot for 35 weeks.