Doctor’s Appt (Week 36)

Another Friday is here and we were at clinic for our regular 36th week check up. I decided to write a separate post for this as I had so much to report and won’t want you guys to miss anything. It was nothing like any other appointment we had so far; Mom had a Non-Stress-Test (NST). I believe they will do this with every visit now. NST is essentially baby’s heart beat examination for a longer duration (of the order of 15-20 mins). Apparently, just as our heartbeat increases with exercise, the unborn pumpkin’s heart beats faster when he/she moves. The NST allows the doctor to look at the baby’s heartbeats as he/she kicks or scratches. With every move, the baby’s heart beat goes up and comes down slowly. This is normal and means that the baby is getting enough oxygen and nutrient from mom’s blood stream. I looked at this as that baby is now able to regular its heart’s functioning depend upon the amount of oxygen he/she needs (ONE BIG STEP FOR THE MANKIND!!!). The nurse attached the heartbeat and contraction monitoring instrument to mom’s belly and left. Thankfully she told us that it is perfectly normal if the heartbeat disappears for few moments, essentially the little monster moves so much that the monitoring instrument can’t find him/her and you get no reading. After 20 minutes or so the Dr Mc came in and looked at the results. He was happy with the results. In fact he was thrilled when he looked at the mom’s sugar results, they looked great except one which was at 120 (still below the limit 125). So after all the little pill which he prescribed last time was working great. The sugar results lead us to the discussion on the baby weight. Of course, he can’t tell the baby weight just by looking at it but he mentioned that the Asian women generally have smaller babies and with Mom’s sugar in this case might just nudge us to normal US percentile. However, since this is just a guess he suggested that we should go for an ultrasound on 3rd November which will give him a clear idea of where the baby is in terms of size. The follow up appointment of ultrasound is 7th November when we will find out on what’s our next step.

One final update from doctor’s office is about the Group-B test we had last week. The test results were normal, one more thing out of the way.

We both are so much looking forward to it, several times a day we will be like ..please come out already !!! I am at a stage where my nervousness is all gone, I think the thought of holding my baby overcomes everything.

Deepawali is next week; we are missing home a lot. We will definitely make a trip to temple and also to the grocery store in Cleveland to get the Laxmi Pooja Samgree.