Dear Placenta, you're hearby GROUNDED.

I think I like how Amanda put it the best... "so sorry your placenta's being a jerk." Yeah, that's right placenta... you're a big jerk.

It looks like my placenta hasn't moved a single bit. It's still completely covering the cervix... not just a little bit... I'm talking completely downtown, going from front to back. This means that my dream of letting Zoey come on her birthday instead of her "due date" is a thing of the past.

When my OB was telling me this, I was fighting back tears. I asked her if there was still a chance at all that I could deliver normally and she said it's highly unlikely. Next Tuesday, January 26, I have to go see a high-risk doctor to get the final confirmation that I will have to get a c-section. My OB assured me that she is not passing me on to a new doctor, she is simply sending me to an expert to confirm what she thinks is going to happen. I was told that it's imperative that I do not dilate past a 2. If I bleed at all, even a little bit, I have to go to Vanderbilt hospital and I will be put on bedrest. She told me under NO circumstances can I go to the local hospital because they do not have the blood supply needed. So IF this happens, we're off to Vandy. The c-section will happen between 36-38 weeks, depending on how I'm progressing... if I'm not dilating on my own, I can go longer (which is my hope), but if I do dilate, we have to do the c-section ASAP and stop labor. I was told I'll have to get steroid shots to make sure Zoey's lungs are developed before the c-section... as long as we can control when it happens.

I'm thankful that my daughter is healthy... today she measured at 27 weeks and is 2lbs, 6 oz. all 4 of her heart valves looked beautiful on the ultrasound... both her kidneys are functioning properly and she is inhaling as she should... we were able to see her actually inhale amniotic fluid and see up her little nose, LOL. She was a cutie.

The bright side of all this is I will get to see my daughter a lot more... I'll have more ultrasounds than I'll know what to do with from here on out... as if I haven't already had enough. Now to await the glucose tolerance test results........