9 Months and Counting!

Hello 9^th month of pregnancy! It’s so great to finally be to this point, however it now becomes the world’s longest waiting game. Impatience at its best. The last 36 weeks have flown by, so we can stick it out for few more ;) Almost two weeks ago we had our final ultrasound to check out Jaxon’s weight estimate..and we have a big a big boy! Or so we thought leaving that ultrasound. After our regular appointment with the doctor we headed over to the hospital to get the ultrasound done and it was our favorite so far. We enjoyed it even better than the 4D because the nurse was able to get so many great shots. Jaxon surprisingly was not camera shy this time J We saw his hair, ears, fingers and toes wiggling, strong legs, cute face with chubby cheeks, his strong heart beating and even his eyelashes! He makes all sorts of expressions and it was like an intro into his little personality before he’s even here. Jared had another proud Dad moment when the nurse said, “look at him flexing his muscles for us. ;)” He still moves a lot and I don’t think he will be slowing down before labor. This boy is going to wiggle his way all the out!

 After all the measurements the nurse estimated his weight at 6lbs 9oz…my mouth dropped! I told Jared we need to go straight home to pack the hospital bag and get ready because he has got to come out. Almost 7lbs at almost 35 weeks….if you do the math that makes him between 9 and 10 lbs at 40 weeks(probably closer to 10!!). For this momma who would love to deliver him naturally that is just not going to work out for me! We left the appointment on a high after spending half an hour watching our son on the screen and totally convinced ourselves he is coming early and thinking the doctor would completely agree. I couldn’t wait to get back to our doctor a week later and see what she had to say about the results from the ultrasound (a nurse did our scan at the hospital not the doctor). I knew in the back of my mind she wouldn’t think anything of it as it is all just estimates, but I still wanted to think maybe she would want to get him out like tomorrow if he really is that big. She came in and laughed at me when I said, “did you see the weight?!” and quickly reminded us she has delivered plenty of babies who have been estimated at 8lbs at 35 weeks and only weighed 8lbs when they were born a month later. She just needs a ballpark range and nothing we can do to know for sure. My stomach is measuring on time and not far ahead like Jaxon was estimated at so we will see how much he actually weighs when he decides to come on out. She did however say she would love to see me get through the next 2 weeks and then deliver (on my own, not induced) to keep him from getting so big and really wants to see me make good progress over that time. We have made a little progress, but still have ways to go. My body is definitely at work preparing for labor, so I take it all as good signs but now it is just a big guessing game when he will come. Really hoping we progressed a good bit when we get checked at the next appointment on Monday. I came on my due date and Jared was 10 days late, so hoping he takes after me and not Jared in this if he doesn’t come early. At least I know she will only let me go max 1 week over if it comes down to it…hopefully we don’t even have to worry about that! Either way, we are in the home stretch and will get to meet him just a few short weeks. We could not be more excited/ready! Come on Jaxon!!

 The countdown is officially on! Place your bets now!

Love,

The Hawkins