38.5 Week Ultrasound

Well, Maggie managed to make it to another Monday for another biophysical profile.  She passed the biophysical profile like she always does, but her heart rate was really high (170's instead of her normal 130's or 140's) so they went ahead and hooked me up to the monitor anyway to see what might be going on.  I was on it for quite a long time and her heart rate kept going up high and then down near normal over and over.  They didn't seem TOO concerned (said since she's so active that could be raising her heart rate, just like when WE are more active, OUR heart rate increases) but wanted to keep monitoring her until the heart rate calmed down so they wouldn't have to send me over to labor and delivery for more monitoring.  They said they would be much more concerned if it was high and stayed high, but since it was up and down everything was probably fine.  At one point I started having some slightly intense contractions and it felt like how Jack's labor started.  I started thinking that my labor might be starting and since my labors go fast I was concerned that if kept waiting around on the monitor that I would possibly get stuck delivering at KU Med (although they would take great care of us, it would mess up my "plan" haha).  So I told her that I wanted to make sure I could get to OPR in time if I really turned out to be in labor so she said as long as I would be okay that I could go ahead and leave.  I told her I was fine but wanted to make sure MAGGIE was fine and that it wouldn't hurt anything for me to leave.  She said everything was fine and they weren't concerned.  So I rushed out of there and...well, everything went back to normal.  False alarm!!  (No pictures today...she was hiding!!)