Still pregnant.

I was reading one of my handouts over the weekend about post-dates pregnancy, and it said I would be offered some monitoring at 41 weeks to check up on the baby. Then I looked at when my next appointment was: Wednesday night at 5. Meaning, I'd be getting an ultrasound requisition probably after business hours, meaning I probably couldn't get in until Friday or maybe even later... 1 week and 4 days overdue. Seemed a little late to me... at that point with Wil I was already having a c-section. So I was getting antsy. (Then again, Wil also came out covered in vernix... clearly not as overdue as they said he was.)

I paged the midwives to see if they could just maybe phone the other team (who does their office visits today) and get a req written up for the biophysical profile ultrasound, but instead they had me come in, which was good. Had a listen to the baby; heartbeat's good, his head is still well down. I had the student and one of the midwives today, so the student checks the baby's position and stuff, then the midwife comes to have a feel as well. As soon as she touched my belly she remarked on how much fluid I've got in there (no wonder I feel huge). So that's good news since obviously I'm still producing enough amniotic fluid for the baby and the placenta probably hasn't started to lose function or anything.

They checked me... 1 cm dilated but stretch to 3 cm easily, 80% effaced, baby's at -1 to -2 station. They said there was a big bulge from the amniotic sac, so I wonder if that's part of the reason he's not right down yet (so much fluid he's really floating). Once his head's right up against the cervix, all this false labour should start to do something useful. They gave me another stretch and sweep (got one at the appointment last week) - yeeouch! Good thing Matt was there to hold my hand.

Now to wait and see if anything happens...