Pregnancy Update
Jan. 16th, 2008 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ste_noniI'm currently 36 weeks. I had my (hopefully) last midwife appointment this morning. It was so awesome - turns out they have a clinic that is very close to my house - maybe 10-15 minutes away so I didn't have to drive to the awful hospital. Of course, I would have liked to have known this a few months ago, but at least I can go there for my post-partum appointment.
So, apparently I have gained 4 pounds in a week! Is that even possible? It was a different scale so I'm hoping that accounts for it. My home scale says I've gained maybe two pounds. I'm a little embarrassed that I've gained 40 lbs this pregnancy but I also know that I have eaten worse and exercised less. I'm not distraught over it - none of my clothes fit these days but I have no perspective on my size so it's just a fact and not upsetting me.
I asked her to do a pelvic exam - my first of the pregnancy. I am 2 cm dilated, 50% effaced, -3 station. Also, mucuos (is that spelled right? it looks weird) plug is gone and she said she felt the baby's head with her finger. All I ask is another five days. Watch - the baby will probably come two weeks late.
In happy news, Joe has decided (all on his own) to just show up in New Mexico somewhere in the first week of Feb (due date is Feb 10 but he is trying to come around 2-5 Feb). That made me happy - the medical stuff really seems to freak him out in ways I don't get (see last pregnancy as an example) but he knows I want him there so he's willing to come. I'm happy about that although I told him that I won't have the energy to worry about him and his comfort level during labor. I suspect he will rise to the occasion as he usually does (if he makes it there). I will have both the doula and my mom there so if Joe feels awkward or uncomfortable, I figure he can just stand up by my head (or wait with Ellie outside) until it's all over with. They say some husbands sort of resent the doula for doing their job but I think Joe will really appreciate having someone who knows what they are doing to give him hepful suggestions and so on. Of course, he still might not make it, but I'm happy that at least he is trying to get there.
So, apparently I have gained 4 pounds in a week! Is that even possible? It was a different scale so I'm hoping that accounts for it. My home scale says I've gained maybe two pounds. I'm a little embarrassed that I've gained 40 lbs this pregnancy but I also know that I have eaten worse and exercised less. I'm not distraught over it - none of my clothes fit these days but I have no perspective on my size so it's just a fact and not upsetting me.
I asked her to do a pelvic exam - my first of the pregnancy. I am 2 cm dilated, 50% effaced, -3 station. Also, mucuos (is that spelled right? it looks weird) plug is gone and she said she felt the baby's head with her finger. All I ask is another five days. Watch - the baby will probably come two weeks late.
In happy news, Joe has decided (all on his own) to just show up in New Mexico somewhere in the first week of Feb (due date is Feb 10 but he is trying to come around 2-5 Feb). That made me happy - the medical stuff really seems to freak him out in ways I don't get (see last pregnancy as an example) but he knows I want him there so he's willing to come. I'm happy about that although I told him that I won't have the energy to worry about him and his comfort level during labor. I suspect he will rise to the occasion as he usually does (if he makes it there). I will have both the doula and my mom there so if Joe feels awkward or uncomfortable, I figure he can just stand up by my head (or wait with Ellie outside) until it's all over with. They say some husbands sort of resent the doula for doing their job but I think Joe will really appreciate having someone who knows what they are doing to give him hepful suggestions and so on. Of course, he still might not make it, but I'm happy that at least he is trying to get there.