My baby was out by C-section at 36 weeks for the same reason. You shall drink more water, but definitely go back to check within 3 days to see if that works. You are full term already. If you water level drop below 5, the danger for cord incident is very high, which means your baby will suffer low oxygen supply if that happens. To me, it's much serious risk.So we decide to deliver the baby right away. As to your B超, depends on your OB. Some OB's office has nothing, you will need to be referred to other office to do B超. That's why they usually don't do it. I agree that what can a OB tell by just looking at your belly. For me, my OB is a specialist to start with. His office has 3 B超 machines. Doing B超 is very convenient. I probably had 20 times during the pregnancy. After the water level was detected low, I was called back to office twice a week to monitor (after 32 weeks). And every day three days before delivery to make sure the measurement is correct and the trend of losing water is unstoppable. FYI, I drank more than 1 gallon water a day and has no sign of leaking at all. Without frequent B超, my baby could suffer. But for those who doesn't have B超 after 20 weeks, they just go blind and it could turn out to be totally fine. Everything is only a probability.
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btw, forgot to mention, C-section is much easier than natural delivery. The recovery is fine as well (probably worse than the best natural delivery). but in my case, I took care of my baby from day 1 and pretty much has no problem after 1 month. Since the baby is out at 36 weeks, so it only wights 6 lb (10%).but now he is 2 month old. His weight is 75%, height and head is 50%. He rolled over from tummy to back at 6 week, much more advance than average new born.