Wee One

Yesterday, I had my 38 week appt. Only 2 weeks left to go! Here are some things of interest that I thought I might report:

1. She's a tiny little tike: The dr.'s noticed my belly not measuring as big as it should. They thought the reason for this was because the baby has dropped too low to get the head measurement but they wanted to do an ultrasound just to be sure. Sure enough, she's dropped and really low they say. But, she's also tiny. During the ultrasound, they took measurements of her head, femur and abdomen to get a weight estimation. The first time they did it the weight was 6 lbs, 9 oz. The second time they did it was 6 lbs, 4 oz. They aren't concerned though as she is healthy with breathing lungs, beating heart and the rest of her organs are developed. She is measuring in the 20 percentile and wouldn't be concerned unless it was 10% or lower.

2. Female gender is confirmed: I had them check. Juuuusssstt in case. I told them that everytime I walk into the nursery I always think, "This better be a girl!" I'm tired of shopping. :)

3. A few weeks back the Renstrom fam called Adam and I to report that the name Greta means "pearl". I didn't know that until then and thought that was pretty cool. They were also impressed with it being of Swedish descent. Well, yesterday the ultrasound tech commented that June has the pearl birthstone. How fitting!