Pregnancy #2: 38/39 Weeks Pregnant and Specialist/Midwife Appointment

I was 38 weeks pregnant on April 24th.

According to thebump.com, the baby is the size of a pumpkin.

The Baby
He may have as much as an inch of hair, however Emma was pretty much bald so we shall see.

He is slowly shedding the white vernix, but he will probably still be born with some. Emma was covered in it.

He is around 20 in long and weighs around 7 lbs. I'm curious to see if the growth scan was correct or not on his weight.

His head is about the same circumference as his abdomen.

The Mama
I have really been struggling the past few weeks with just utter exhaustion from working full time while being this pregnant and not sleeping. With Emma by this point it was July and I had been out of school for about 6 weeks. While this is my last week of work (I have three days left while writing this), I am struggling a lot. It hasn't allowed me to get a lot of stuff done on my to-do list, which is kind of freaking me out, but I go to bed around 8 and I'm still really tired the next day because I am up so much in the middle of the night.

38 Week Specialist Appointment
He looks good, she spent some time really checking his abdomen and making sure he was swallowing fluid to make sure not to expect issues there when he is born a long with the heart issues. She wasn't really concerned about my blood pressure since the urine at the hospital was fine. She said just to watch it and call if I felt bad again or it went up, but that since I am so close to my induction date (May 3rd) she really isn't worried at this point.

38 Week Midwife Appointment 
This appointment went well. We talked a little bit about the induction next week and how that would go. It was pretty short, we didn't do a cervix check since I have another appointment on Monday a few days before the scheduled induction.

39 Week Specialist Appointment
I had my 39 week appointment the day before I turned 39 weeks, three days before our scheduled induction. She noticed a blockage in his colon and while it is probably just meconium she wanted to go ahead and induce before it gets any bigger and could potentially cause more issues. We found this out at 11 am on Monday, April 30th. We spent several hours getting child care figured out for Emma, running last minutes errands and cleaning last minute things. Then we hung out with Emma before we had to go to the hospital around 6pm.