Inducing

I had another ultrasound apt this morning. I'm 29 1/2 weeks now.  Mom was going to go with me but woke up with a fever and had to cancel on me, so I went solo. The baby looked great. His heartbeat was 159. I talked with the Nurse Practitioner Dawn about my concerns for waiting until week 39 to induce. She said she completely understood and that they could offer me the option of inducing around week 37 if they could do an amnio on me to see if baby's lungs were fully developed. If they are developed then they would go ahead and induce then. This option made me much less anxious as the only real risk of having the amnio is that it might could cause me to go ahead and go into labor on my own anyway. She said that as long as Dr. Wright signed off on the amnio we could plan to do that and she saw no reason why Dr. Wright wouldn't sign off on it.

After my appointment I went to Whole Foods to get some healthy food options to have around the house. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and eat healthy and try not to gain more weight than I'm supposed to during this pregnancy. I came home and made chicken tenders and fruit salad with grapes, clementines, strawberries and kiwi. The cable guy came over and installed an outlet and cable box in our nursery. He got done in just enough time for me to get dressed and go to Zumba at the Y. Shea came over tonight to watch the Bachelor premier with me. It was highly entertaining to listen to Shea's commentary on all the girls. Robi visited Marshall on the set of Army Wives today and sent me a picture of Marshall hard at work. Marshall's mom also came with Robi and apparently it was her first time ever seeing them film on the sound stages. Marshall enjoyed having them come visit and it helped to make the Monday work blues a little better.