Ree Drummond’s Daughter Alex Shares New Update on Her ‘High Risk’ Pregnancy

Ree Drummond’s daughter Alex provided her fans with a new update on her pregnancy as she and her husband, Mauricio Scott, await the arrival of their first child together.

Alex, 27, has shared updates on her pregnancy experience ever since she and her husband announced their happy news in late June. With Alex at 36-and-one-half weeks along as of Friday, Dec. 6, the two are tentatively expecting their daughter to arrive in early 2025.

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“Today we have an appointment with maternal fetal medicine—which, because of my white coat blood pressure hypertension stuff, my pregnancy is, like, high risk,” the eldest daughter of The Pioneer Woman host explained in a Friday update posted on Instagram Stories. “So I go to appointments with both my OB and maternal fetal medicine, which is like, I guess just a place to get extra scans, extra monitoring done for high-risk pregnancies.”

As a result of those precautions, Alex and Mauricio have needed to “double up on appointments,” despite how her pregnancy “has not felt very high risk, because everything has been so normal,” she observed. “I’ve still been going here and getting, like, extra sonograms, extra things.”

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Alex has been getting new ultrasounds every three weeks or so as part of those medical appointments. “It’s always fun to see how she’s growing and see her positioning,” Alex said, adding that the baby has recently appeared to be “ready to go.”

So far, the baby has “been measuring 50 to 60th percentile,” which Alex described as being “right on average.” Based on the data they’ve gained so far, Alex estimated that the baby will weigh “over 6 pounds” at birth. “Which is actually crazy to think that I have a 6-pound baby inside of me,” she added.

Though Alex said her medical team at one point thought she might need to be induced early due to her “blood pressure stuff,” those concerns have “kind of stabled out,” with her blood pressure seeming “better” at her last few appointments.

“So now the plan is to just go to my due date, see if she comes naturally. And then obviously, if we go past the due date, we can induce,” she said, adding that she is “glad that we’re able to just kind of wait it out, instead of having an early induction scheduled.”

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