Week 38

I’m going to be a daddy tomorrow!

We went to our last doctor appointment today.  Kelly is still not dilated and Garrett is over 8 lbs.  Because of the gestational diabetes and Garrett’s size the doctor doesn’t want Kelly to go to 39 weeks.  Today is 38 weeks plus 1 day.  We’ve heard a lot of horror stories from our friends about being induced so we expressed our concerns to the doctor.  He agreed and said that what usually happens is they bring you in early in the morning to begin inducing and by 4pm it still hasn’t worked and he has to do a c-section anyway. 

He asked us if we were ready and we told him we were so ready that we brought our bags with us today just in case he wanted to have us go next door and have a baby.  He said we couldn’t  do it today because he wanted Kelly to fast after midnight and do some pre-op blood work, but we could do it tomorrow morning.  This was exactly the news we wanted to hear.

The new tower at the hospital isn’t complete yet because it was delayed by storms.  We have to be at the main hospital building at 5:30 in the morning and he will perform the c-section at 7:30.  Kelly will probably be in post-op for an hour afterwards.  There is a possibility that he will have to be in the NICU for a while because his lungs are slightly under developed.

Jennifer and Peggy are coming over tonight to help us do some last minute stuff to get ready.

We probably won’t get any sleep because we’ll be so excited.