Raising Rosalie: Déjà vu - a revised due date so we're back at 39 weeks and 2 days

So….it's Sept 5th and baby Rosalie is still a cookin. I had our NST today and also got an ultrasound. Baby Rosalie is moving well and her fluids are good. We also had a doctor's appointment. I'm same as last week: between 1 and 2 cm dilated, 60% effaced and she's at the -1 station. Our doc started to talk about intervention options, when I told her our theory about our "real" due date being September 10th as opposed to September 4th.

Why do we think our due date is September 10th?

Well, usually doctors base your due date on the date of your last menstrul period, assuming that you have a 28-day period cycle. This is generally the case for most women, but since Adam and I were intentionally trying to get pregnant and were tracking our cycles using the Fertility Awareness Method we had more information: 1) my cycles are much longer than 28 days - around 40-50 days and 2) we know the date when we conceived (we were tracking!). With that info, the due date calculators put us at Sept 10th. In addition, our first early ultrasound estimated that our due date was September 8th based on the baby's size. We brought this up to our first doctor when we lived in San Francisco but she didn't really want to listen and said she wanted to keep the date at September 4th.

But, our new doctor in Berkeley was all ears and happy to listen to our tracking tale and theory and agreed that with this new information we should change the date to Sept 10th. Usually they will induce after 41 weeks and definitely after 42 weeks because the placenta starts getting old. So, six days makes a difference when you start talking about interventions like inducing pregnancy. The doc said, she thinks it's good to let the baby decide when she wants to come out and that we'll give her another week. So bottom line - our new date is next Wed, September 10th!

Auntie Nik doesn't leave until Sunday, the 7th so she may still be able to meet Rosalie. In the meantime, Nik, Ren, Adam, Baby Isaac and I had a delicious lunch at East End Pizza in Alameda.

Back to working from home! And til next time. Below are a few photos from this week of waiting.