Here’s the parcel of goodies I’ve prepared for my partner as part of the Spring colours swap on swap-bot. We had to send 5 items in green, light blue and pink colours so I’ve chosen felt squares, stickers, buttons, beads and some handmade items too. I hope she likes them! We met up with our NCT ante-natal class for a delicious lunch at the Junction Tavern today. It was so nice to see everyone although it felt very strange telling them our baby will be born on Thursday. I still haven’t got my head round the fact I’m going to…
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Yesterday was spent in the labour ward at the hospital having the external cephalic version or ECV. We arrived at 8.30 and finally left at 3.30 and the procedure only lasted 15 minutes! I couldn’t find much information about the technique and I’m glad I didn’t otherwise I don’t think I would have gone through with it. First I had my temperature and blood pressure taken, the fetal heartbeat was monitored for 45 minutes and I did a urine test. A doctor did an ultrasound on a small machine to check the baby was still breech. Around 10.45 I saw…
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Dare I say I’ve felt a bit bored today? I feel like I’m in limbo with no work but no baby either. I had great plans to spend these few weeks making bibs, baby quilts, taggies and nesting but a strange kind of ennui has come over me. Instead I spent the day watching terrible day time tv whilst obsessively reading and commenting on pregnancy message boards. When my poor husband came home from work I made him take me to Tesco’s so I could stock up on magazines, snacks and more items for my hospital bag. Yes, I’m far…
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Eek, week 37 already! This morning consisted of a midwife appointment, a scan and a consultation with the doctor. Fortunately my placenta was fine, it wasn’t low lying at all so no danger of placenta praevia. Phew. But I wish we had asked for a second opinion at the time or just rung my midwife. Apparently it’s quite rare for the placenta to move and we could probably have saved ourselves some worry. However, the poor baby is still breech (and seems happy to stay that way!). According to the NCT, between 3–4% of babies are in the breech position…