The Adorable Truth

At the appointment yesterday, the doctor went Al Gore on me and pulled out some charts and graphs. As a dataphile, I was very excited… and as a mother, I was very proud. One graph displayed two solid parallel lines of increasing value over time, as well as a dotted line with a similar starting point but an even greater slope than the parallel lines. The doctor said “between these two lines is where we expect to see the curve for fetal growth. The dotted line, however, represents your baby.” The dotted line surpassed the two “normal kid range” lines sometime in the final two months of pregnancy. I was very proud. Then after thinking about what this really means for the immediate future, I said “my body wouldn’t grow a baby that is bigger than I can push out, right?” The doctor just laughed. Hmmm. All I can do is hope that Alexander has a well planned exit strategy.

We are still scheduled for beginning the induction Wednesday night. With any luck, Alexander will make his debut sometime on Thursday, August 14th. In the meantime, I had better start reading up on some specialized maternity and parenting books.