As you well know if you have been following us we are planning on having Noah at home, well motherature has her own plans maybe. It seems there is a possibility we may have to have Noah at the hospital. We can still do everythingatural and with our mid-wife, justeed to have everything well monitored. This is because Noah’s growth isot where iteeds to be, he is a little small according to theormal scale. He started out at 27% in relation to other babies, fell to 11% and isow sitting in the 4th percentage of size after our latest ultrasound. When they told us I could see the heartbreak come across Sharon’s face when the realization hit that he might be in trouble andeed to be born in the hospital.
The problem they believe is the placenta isot functioning efficiently enough. It isot transferring enoughutrients over to Noah as he is getting bigger and requiring moreow than he did throughout the pregnancy. This is fairly common at the end of pregnancies they say.
“If his growth rate drops any more, weeed to get him out” Dr. Maher said. HUh?!?! “What does that mean?” I asked. Thinking the worst… a c-section 🙁 But he re-assured us, he just meant we would induce and get him outaturally. Justot at home.
Butow if his growth rate doesot drop much and he is gaining weight still (which he grew over a pound in two weeks already) we may still be on track. We justeed to have him be 6 pounds on ultrasound so he is for sure over the legal weight for a home birth. But there is one more issue. Amniotic fluid. It is running low, which is another sign the placenta isot keeping up.
We are going to stay positive because we know the power of positive thinking. Which essentially is on par with prayers. So maybe the power of prayer rings true to me more these days. We have gotten all of our supplies for home birth lined up ready to go. Noah, if you can hear us, “just hang in there and just get bigger still for a couple more weeks okay buddy”
Note: When sterilizing towels and such in an oven, doot let the paper bag touch the top of the oven as it will ignite.