3.9cm

I seem to have a crazy cervix. I went for ultrasound #7 on Friday and it's actually lengthened again. The last u/s it was 3.7cm and this time it was 3.9cm. :0) The good news is, at the end of all the tests/scans when I met with the doctor he said he did not see a need for another u/s (I was told I'd keep having them until 32w) and was going to fax the results to my doctor and let her decide. I realllyyy hope she's in agreement with him. I'm out of the 'real' danger zone (at 29w she has an 85% survival rate with a very low chance of complications/problems) and to be honest, I'm a bit tired of all the trans-vaginal ultrasounds and Owen having to take time off work for them all.

This time when I went in I had a student, and while I will be the first one to say that everyone has to learn on someone, this is the one time I would have preferred it not be me. At the last u/s she was soo defined, I got to see eyelids, hair on her head, her face looked so perfect...this time, because the radiologist was a student, it was taking her quite some time to get measurements and find things.

She did not give us the "baby tour" (Owen was out in the reception area with Tash last time) and I swear she used a whole bottle of gel on my belly. You can really tell the ones that have been doing it for a while when the are super neat with the gel and you do not end up with it from boob to vagina when they are done. :p All in all, I spent 1.5hrs on my back while she tried to get measurements and poked at the baby to try and get her to breath. In the end she brought in the tech who was 'watching' her and she checked things out and then they did the trans-vaginal. So in the end Owen did not get to really see anything. He was with me for the 12w one and I think he went in for one after the 18w (he did not go to that one), but baby just did not look the same.

I know he will get to see her plenty once she's born, I was just to amazed at how developed she's become over the past few weeks alone that I wanted him to see that too.

My back was killing me by the time they were done and then on top of that, because she would not take a breath whenever they checked, I then had to go into the consult room, have the heart monitor paddles put on and sit there for 20m while they watched her to make sure all was ok. I was told she is not breathing regularly, but should take a breath every 30m or so to help tone those muscles once she leaves the womb.

Hopefully this is the last one. I told Owen yesterday when we left that baby girl is probably going to go 2 weeks past due just to spite us all. :P