32 Weeks, Right?

When your doctor tells you that you're due on January 10th, you've got to believe him. Even when this goes against the timeline that nature laid out before you. You see, according to my calculations I'm supposed to be due on December 25th, 2011, NOT January 10th, 2012. Based on the first day of my last cycle, and when "baby making activities" occurred, the date that my doctor provided seemed approximately two weeks later than what science and nature were telling me. If this is the case, that baby's going to be here sooner than I'd originally thought, then it explains why I'm so friggin huge!

Imagine my surprise when my ultrasound technician tells me that based on my baby's measurements I should be due on DECEMBER 8TH. I almost fainted. She said that this date came mostly because of the size of the baby's head. Now, I know that any baby of mine will have a big head because, well, it's better than everyone else, and probably knows it. (Most of you will get that I'm joking, the rest of you will know that I'm serious. I'll let you decide which is the case here.) But really, December 8th? My doctor's estimation was that far off? I know, how about if we split the difference and call it a day? This will put baby's due date around December 25th. Hey, what do you know?! That's when I've been saying baby will be here all along!

Additionally, all the baby sites are saying that right now I should have a 4 pound baby. Guess how many pounds my ultrasound says that my baby is? OVER SIX! Seriously? Either I'm having a huge baby (Which I am PRAYING is not the case...) or my doctor was wrong and because of this all the tests I've had done thus far were done too late in the pregnancy to be valid.

This incident has really caused me to question the integrity and expertise of my doctor. At the appointment that I had three days ago he rudely stormed out of my apointment because I had additional questions about the dizzy spells that I'd been having. He did have a birth to get to, however he should have handled it much more professionally. Instead of saying, "If this continues please call us and we can discuss it further." He said, "That's it. I'm going." and left. In addition to this, the first two appointments I had with him he was at least a half hour late for, if not more! To top all of this off it looks like my baby's going to be here much sooner that he led me to believe?! Am I being irrational, or does my doctor seem to not have his $hit together?

On the up side, I got to see a picture of my little baby. I think that it has Andrew's head, and I'm hoping that it has my nose. (Just because I like my nose, not because of any other reason.) In the pictures below you can see how baby has it's arm up in front of its face. You can kinda see the pear shape of its head, and you can see its cute little button nose because it's right in the middle of the screen. It was really hard to get pictures because baby doesn't have much room to move around in there, but I think these are the best pictures of baby yet.