Buying Time

What a weird experience an amniocentesis is. All is fine and everyone did well through the procedure. Jon benefited from being blocked by my Doctor as she went in with the actual needle. But he did get to see it happening, we all did, on the ultrasound. So strange to see this thin needle poke through to Baby's home! I only could imagine it being like a giant water balloon that if you pierce it with anything it will pop or at least leak. Fortunately neither of those things happened. How does that work!?

So after we watched her suction out a couple teaspoons of fluid she pulled the needle and we watched baby for a little. Just to reaffirm he wasn't stressed, which he wasn't. Pretty calm actually. The tech was happily playing around with the 4D imaging and saying how cute he was. He looks way more babylike now with his accumulated fat. But we didn't get to see how much he weighed which maybe I don't want to know anyway.

This morning my Doctor called me with the results. His lungs are in transitional stage, meaning he just isn't ready for the big debut yet. I guess he made our decision easier. We'll simply have to wait a little longer for him. No prob. She has tentatively scheduled me for induction on May 10th, which is funny because that's my Mom's birthday! How sweet if they could share. Of course that means he'll make me miss my first Mother's Day! Oh well :)

The positive thing about getting an extension on Baby time is that I'll get to finish up a last minute project that I fell in love with. I am making some sweet fabric bookshelves to go up on his nursery. I stole the idea from Ohdeedoh website which has really sweet ideas. I'll post the pictures of that and the final nursery, long in the making, soon :)