Week 40 - Over Due Checkup w/ Eviction Date

Ty has decided he likes it in mommy's tummy. Unfortunately, Doctor Brown has given Ty the weekend to make his grand appearance or else we are going to evict him by the force of drugs.

We go into the Labor and Delivery Dept on Sunday Night at 7 pm to begin procedures to induce. On Sunday night an IV drug will be given to Lori to make her dilate, currently she is on 1/2 a centimeter. Monday morning the nurses will begin to give her a drug that will force contractions. If all goes well, we will have Baby Ty by Monday evening. If not, Lori could end up repeating the process over again or having a c-section.

Lori's appointment went well this morning. We visited with Doctor Brown first and she scheduled the appointment for the hospital. Lori then had her last stress test. Ty did not perform up to his prior standards again, but he did have some spurts.

During one of Ty's movements during the test, Lori had a contraction but Ty's heartbeat dropped instead of rising.

Doctor Brown requested we go for a biophysical sonogram where they measure movements of the baby and to see if he is stressed in his environment. Depending on how this test went, could have determined if we went for inducement today or wait till Sunday. Well after about a 45 minute sonogram and about 70 minutes of waiting for the results, we found out that Ty was just fine and we would wait until Sunday.

So... Hopefully, if all goes well, Monday, September 22 will be the day. If everything went really well, it would be this weekend without force. But for some reason, I doubt that will happen!

Oh by the way, Lori asked Doctor Brown how big she thought Ty would be.... her guess was 9 pounds! :-)