An update

I went in on Monday to get the rest of the results. To make it brief, I do indeed have cholestasis of pregnancy. But the midwife told me that they will not induce me until I'm at least 37 weeks pregnant (which I will be on Sunday). Needless to say, we were VERY relieved--I did not like the idea of delivering at 36 weeks.

So, what happens now? Until I have this baby, I will be having twice-weekly NSTs and weekly midwife appointments. On Thursday (February 23), I will be having an amniocentesis performed to check to see how mature baby's lungs are, and if baby's lungs are mature enough, I will be induced the next day on February 24. I'll be close to 38 weeks at that point, which is a much nicer number than 36 weeks. Seriously, when they were talking about inducing me at 36 weeks, I was having visions of NICU and all sorts of horror dancing around in my head.

And for all we know, I could go into labor on my own and not need an induction. My mom had all of us between 37-38 weeks (spontaneously) along with having cholestasis, so wouldn't it be fair that I got her labor genes as part of the package deal? I'd like to hope.

My midwife and I also talked about my birth preferences, and she said there shouldn't be a problem accommodating my wishes.

So, I am very relieved. Yeah, I'm not happy that I did get the dreaded itchy disease after all, but I'm at peace with it. I have to say that this experience forced us to really get cracking on having things ready for baby. We installed the car seat, got some baby stuff, got the pack'n'play from Stephan's older sister, etc. There's more we need to do, like figure out how in the heck we are going to set everything up in this little apartment of ours. We have a little time now, thank goodness.

Thank you everyone for your kind words, it really means a lot to me.