Competent, thank you very much

Had the ole dildocam session today and was pleasantly surprised to hear I was still above 3 cm, which is considered normal. I was 3.1 to be exact, down slightly from the 3.7 two weeks ago. Juuuust inside the normal range of 3-5 cm. But still! Normal!

But my doctor waved away my length with his hand, saying he does not use length as a monitor for his patients. He expects me to shorten and fully expects me to funnel to my stitch.

Excuse me? What? But that's bad! Funneling is evil and wrong. And gets concerning looks for ultrasound technicians.

Oh but no. Apparently that's only in cases of rescue cerclage. In preventative cerclage cases, those things are almost a guarantee. The only concern he has is if I funnel below my stitch or start to dilate.

I asked him, since we're leaving for France at the end of September, if I could have weekly ultrasounds until then. He laughed and said he doesn't let his patients even have bi-weekly ultrasounds with cerclages. He said I was being allowed special consideration.

Hmmmm. OK. So I go next week for my big anatomy scan and then he will see me again before we go to France. But he told me to plan to take the trip. He can't see any reason why I wouldn't be going.

Hot damn! French food, here I come.

Baby2, from the 10 seconds the tech looked at her, has gotten enormous and had a heartbeat of a rousing 163. She was pretty calm for those 10 seconds, but gave us a little fist pump in greeting.