Mood:  a-ok

The Belly

My bump from 38 weeks to baby!

Mood:  a-ok

Ok this will probably be the only blog entry on here whilst I'm pregnant, as I'm now 39 weeks gone, with my first. 

So here is what we've been up to this week.  It's been pretty hectic as we've been getting everything all together and organised for the arrival of the new baby on Friday 14 November 08.

It's mostly been going out doing last minute shopping in the supermarket for food etc.  It must have been fun for the other shoppers to see such a heavily pregnant woman waddling about, who looked as if she was "about to pop"  - which it did feel like! Oh and also busy getting the bags packed and ready for the hospital stay.

As well as all that, we had the last check up with the midwife.  She couldn't believe how big the bump had grown within a week.  The good news was that we were told that the babys head has now fully engaged and is in position to be born.  It's also a good size and weight (about 7- 8lbs).  Even though I am now carrying lower down, I still get kicked and punched as it's still very active!. 

I said that I was feeling a bit uncomfortable as I was having really sore and strong braxton hicks, or so I thought.  I was put on a monitor for 20-30 minutes to check and was told that I wasn't experiencing BH, but I was showing signs of having mild contractions, which is nothing to worry about too much, as I've not started to dilate.    We thought that would be the last midwife visit, but we have another one on Tuesday 11 Nov, since I have started to get contractions and also so she can check if I have started to dilate or not (and also because of the size of the baby). 

So that's whats been happening until we go back to the midwife on Tuesday.