Scheduled

At today's 31 week appointment with Dr. K, things were going so well that we are now scheduled for the date we will have the cerclage removed: May 26th, only a month away! Can you believe, after all these months of weekly checks to make sure the stitch was still there, still doing its job playing back-up to Cedric's lead, we are now talking about removing it. This feels like a major milestone.

The stats on everyone are great this week: Baby A is weighing in at 3lbs 6ozs while Baby B, who clearly has her Mama's metabolism, is weighing a whooping 4lbs 3ozs! The girls sailed through their NST's with flying colors, assisted by Mama and Tata who said yes to the proffered juice box right away this time and then chased A and B around Mama's belly with the monitors to make sure all their little mountains were captured. Family teamwork!

Cedric and The Stitch (possible band name?) are holding beautifully at 2.7, and Dr. K remains incredibly proud of his handiwork. Mama's uterus is measuring 45 weeks pregnant (for those of you keeping score at home, that is 5 weeks past term for a singleton), and apparently is on track to break the perinatologist office's record for the year. Wow.

So, Ursula is positively improbable, which explains her irritability and occasional contractions. But Dr. K says he isn't worried, hence the scheduling of the cerclage removal.

I've spent most of my life being over scheduled, and have spent the last 8 weeks on bed rest being profoundly and purposefully under scheduled. And now I'm just plain scheduled. And it feels just right.