McMaster Appointment

Ryan and I made our way into Hamilton this morning for our 7:30am ultrasound.

Little baby was laying on his stomach while I was getting my ultrasound done, so it was a little tricky for the technician to get the pictures of the heart she needed, but since he was moving around so much she managed to get everything they needed.

Ryan was pulled in for the last few minutes.  It's much harder to see the baby at 30 weeks than 20 weeks.  I could barely tell legs from arms from the stomach.  Everything kind of blurred together, but we saw a nice one of the face.

Anyway, after the ultrasound, we spoke to the genetic counsellor and the doctor, and everything they saw on the ultrasound looked good.  They said both the heart and the bowel looked normal, and they didn't have any concerns about the baby.

As for the baby's size, he's 2200g, which works out to about 4.5lbs (!!!), which at 31 weeks sounds pretty big to me...  Some of the other measurements show that he's within normal range, but he's on the upper end of normal, aka he's bigger but not macrosomic (yet).  I can't remember what the measurements were for head circumference, but it does look like he's got a somewhat large head :(

The doctor there wants me to have another ultrasound in 4 weeks, but she said I could have it at the lab in Kitchener, so no more Hamilton appointments!  Yay!

They -did- note that I have a "mature" placenta.  Not 100% sure what the implications of that are, but the doctor said that it's doing its job, considering the baby is as big as he is, so she didn't seem worried.  We'll see what happens with that...