Doctor's appointment, week 35

We had a checkup yesterday with an obstetrician. While we waited in the lounge, three couples came to labour! The female obstetrician was running late so we waited like 20 minutes. When we were called, we noticed there was a student in the room but I soon forgot she even was there.
The doctor used the ultrasound to measure our little Peanut. LITTLE? Did I just write LITTLE? She's 2,7 kilos now!!!! My goodness! She's huge! ....were my thoughts when she told us this. As it turns out, she isn't huge. She is on the scale still. Whew. Were going on week 35 now so she's growing and fast. The nice doctor said she might be 3,9 kilos at birth. And she also told us I could handle a normal labour with her being that sized. Whew. Of course, there will be another checkup in four weeks.

It was so wonderful when the doctor said if Peanut decided to come early, even now, the staff wouldn't stop the labour but they would let her come, she's so well off already. I'm crying now... It was so wonderful to hear that.... we've almost made it now. I love this baby so much I am going Niagara falls now...Sneeze&wipe and I'm good to go again.

I asked the doctor whether Peanut still looked like a girl and she quickly looked at her crotch, showing us where her labia (the outer lips) was. Well, we didn't see it... but the doctor said it's a girl still :) Wonderful...our little girl.

We're so proud of our little daughter... Hubby was so smiley when we left for home... We both were. It took me all evening to sink it all in. I talked about it the whole evening. I even called my mom to share the news. She was horrified by the weight estimate but since the doctor said I could do it, there's no arguing.

The doctor measured her thigh bone, skull diameter and some others... also she said at first that there was a little less amniotic fluid than there should be but just after she found another "puddle" of it so there was normal amount of it left. Also, she checked the cord flow (funny noice), it was just fine. All well.

The doctor asked me whether I wanted the vaginal examination or not and at first I was "Woohoo! I get to choose! No way in HELL then!" but I heard myself saying out loud "Well, there's no harm doing it, so go ahead". When it's in the best interest of your child, you apparently do everything, even if it was awful. I hate the internal examination... it hurts everytime. Having said that, this time it didn't hurt as much as the other times! WOW! I almost thanked the doctor for the most pleasant vaginal examination I've ever had. It hurt a little and I closed my eyes during but it wasn't as hurtful as before. Different doctor, different hospital! Told hubby though.

Anyways, the doctor told us Peanut's head was down where it was supposed to be, me being a first-timer. Also she mentioned that she didn't think the baby would flip anymore. It's like Peanut knows what she's supposed to do :) Amazing...

When we left the doctor, we were escorted to see a midwife. She was overly nice. I was a bit unsure how to be around her. She wanted to confirm the details in a form I had previously filled and took my blood pressure. My pee sample was fine, nothing suspicious there (there had been some vague anomalies before) and blood pressure was 121/88.