Potential

We had an ultrasound yesterday to try and see about how big Harrison is just to make sure he's not so big that he needs to make an early entrance. There's potential that he's going to be a pretty good size baby, but nothing scary.

Overall they estimated him to be about 7 pounds.  Tomorrow will mark three weeks to go and babies usually gain about half a pound a week, so if the estimate is right, he may end up between 8 and 9 pounds but there's a +/- 2 pound window on the estimate.  They may be right on or he may be as little as 5 pounds. The measurements they took make me think he's closer to that 7 pound mark though.

His head measured right on with where he's at: 36 weeks and 5 days.  His abdomen measured way ahead of that though.  She measured it twice because the first time she came up with over 40 weeks.  The second time she got about 38 and a half, so still big, but not so far out as to be worried.  Finally his leg measure a few days over 37 weeks.  Who knows exactly what all that means, but just looking at the numbers, they all kind of average out to about a week ahead of where we're at.  I doubt that means he's going to come a week early but who knows?

DeAnne is starting to get fairly uncomfortable.  We've been so thankful just to be pregnant and to have this blessing that she's really tried this whole time to not complain about anything.  The past few days have been testing her resolve on that though.  She's not getting much sleep, she's having a hard time moving around and getting up off anything she sits or lays on and she's retaining enough fluid that her hands are swelling and hurting.  Harrison also moved yesterday afternoon and ended up pushing on her back in a way that made her back start hurting.  While she tells me all this stuff, she's been good not to really complain about it.  She has started talking to him trying to coax him to come on out though.

So we're getting closer.  3 weeks and a day left.  No plans for the weekend.  With the recent rain we've gotten, the yard has actually grown a little, so I'll be cutting grass Saturday morning.  Other than that, it should be a pretty low-key weekend.  Probably going to be that way from here on out.

Have a good weekend.

--Paul