Baby Update
Baby Update at 39 Weeks
I am now 39 weeks and 6 days – the due date is tomorrow!
Having said that, no new developments towards her arrival. I am just big, uncomfortable, aching, tired and swollen. My feet look like trotters. I need to put them up to help with the swelling, but also go for walks to help kick-start labour. Can’t win.
I discovered a stretch mark on my belly yesterday. I was hoping I’d get away scott free, but no. I guess I don’t have much to complain about as some women have lots. It’ll fade anyway I’ve been told.
Will have a cardiotocography (CTG) on Wednesday Friday if she hasn’t arrived by then. That’s to monitor the baby and see where things are up to and perhaps get a date for when I’ll be induced. Good news is that they won’t let me go over 10 days overdue, so I will definitely have this baby by next Friday (or on the way to having her).
I really hope they don’t leave it too late as I’m worried she may no longer fit through, if you know what I mean. That and I don’t want to miss the Green Day concert on December 18!
39 weeks 6 days pregnant, one day before due date
Baby Update at 38 Weeks
I am so uncomfortable!! My pelvic joints are very sore and the baby is stretching herself a lot which hurts me.
In addtion to that (and losing our puppy Fez just today), I’ve developed something new over the last couple of weeks – prurigo of pregnancy. It’s a whole lot of tiny itchy pimples on my feet and I’m starting to get them on my hands. I thought it was some sort of heat rash or allergy from wearing my cheap ugg boots all day but getting them on my hands eliminated that and the interwebs told me it was prurigo. Just another thing that I have to deal with until this baby comes out!
I only have eight days before the due date of November 24! I’m starting to feel anxious about the impending birth, and feeling a little queasy with frequent trips to the loo for both numbers. Common signs of the last days of pregnancy, although days could turn into weeks.
Apparently I’ve had my ’show’ – meaning my mucous plug is coming away which is a sign that the cervix is preparing for labour. The midwife says that the baby’s engaged as much as she will probably up until labour. My belly probably looks flatter than previously but that’s expected when the baby drops.
I’m doing things like keeping upright when sitting, walking around more, and massaging the fleshy parts of my hands (between the thumb and index finger) to encourage baby to come. I know that the first two things are supposed to keep baby’s head down and pressing on the cervix which will help it to thin out. The massaging part is probably just hocus pocus but it can’t hurt to try, and I quite like my hands being rubbed.
One of the midwive’s told a story about a woman who went for a walk with her trackpants tucked into her ugg boots. Her waters broke and filled into her boots. Maybe I should do the same thing and let Murphy’s Law take care of the rest…
38 weeks 6 days pregnant
Baby Update at 37 Weeks
37 weeks 5 days pregnant
Oh little one
How you squirm
And kick mummy in the ribs
You’re better out
So I can dress you
In little cupcake bibs
So when are you
Going to come
We are all prepared
Your daddy is waiting
For the day
When he can resume drinking beer
There’s dinner on Tuesday
So how about Wednesday
Is that alright with you?
An easy labour
And quick birth
See what you can do
That’s all for now
My little Love
Mummy’s going to make a pie
We’ll see you soon
We can’t wait
K, thanks and bye!
Baby Update at 36 Weeks
This 36th week has been horrendously uncomfortable.
During the day, baby sometimes stretches into certain areas that makes walking almost painful, and sitting down very uncomfortable. My pelvic joints really ache after sitting or lying down too.
In bed, I’ve had nights where baby will just not stop moving, and her legs keep stretching up and winding me. Getting up not only to pee but so I can breathe normally is becoming a regular thing, along with having a banana at about 3am to tie me over until breakfast.
I suspect that she is dropping, as I managed to have a good night’s sleep without being winded last night.
I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather, like I’m coming down with a cold. I hope it doesn’t develop into anything to worry about it. Being sick is the last thing I need in these last few weeks! I suffer enough from the occasional sneeze.
From tomorrow I’ll be in my 37th week, and considered full term! (Though it depends on who you ask as others say it’s 38 weeks, but I’ll take the less of the two.) From what I’ve read, a baby born at 37 weeks will have all she needs to survive without much, if any, help. I’ll give her another week and then I’ll start badgering her to come out already.
The hubby is on instruction to keep sober in case I go into labour. Too bad there’s the brew competition among his friends this weekend that he entered in to months ago.
It’s scary to think that I’m going to have to push out this bump shortly, but at the same time I’m so excited and can’t wait to meet her.
36 weeks and 6 days pregnant. Check out that bulging vein in my hand!
Baby Update at 35 Weeks
Lots of blood noses and congestion.
My own snoring wakes me up sometimes.
Have been extremely thirsty.
Harry Hungers attacks in the wee hours of the morning.
Belly gets in the way of everything.
So uncomfortable.
Bladder being pounded by active baby.
Some new aches around the pelvic region.
Me sleepy. So sleepy.
Taking the dog for a waddle, with sore carpal tunnel hands, not so fun.
And I want sushi.
35 weeks and 4 days pregnant
Baby Update at 34 Weeks
I’m officially on parental leave now, for a year! Yay-ah!
I got a Baby Factory voucher from the staff at work which we used towards a pretty bassinette. We weren’t sure if we needed one, but thought it would be handy especially as the family will be staying for three weeks around Christmas and we can have her in our room then. It’s compact and portable, and even smaller than the portacot so we’ll be able to take it to Auckland when we go up for the Green Day concert also.
Pretty bassinette
Today was my first day off work, but I had to go in to drop off my swipe card and pick up some flowers that I got on Friday. Everyone asked how I liked having a sleep in. Can’t say I’ve had one yet – I got up at 7:30am, had breakfast, got showered and dressed and did a load of washing all before 9. That’s more than I get done on a normal work-day morning! I guess with the bright mornings and the broken sleep that I’m now used to, I just felt like I had had enough sleep by then. At least now I can take naps whenever I feel necessary.
Pretty flowers
Not much news on the pregnancy front. Just getting bigger and more uncomfortable. I waddle much more and slower too, which is frustrating because I hate it when people walk really slowly in front of me.
And the baby is pressing on my bladder more often when she squirms. Only five weeks to go though, and it could be as little as two (or as long as seven)! I’ve got my hospital bag all packed and ready to go, just in case.
Baby Update at 33 Weeks
Sunday night I had another weird dream.
The baby was full-sized, and you could see her whole shape as she stretched out from my belly. You could see the shapes of her arms, legs, torso and there was even a cute face.
The whole thing was freaking me out though. She kept squirming and twisting outwards and at one point she was so far outwards that I was holding her as if she was on the outside! I turned to Neil and said “She’s the wrong way round now. How am I supposed to get her head-down again..?”
My mum was also in my dream. “Why does the back of her head have that smudge?” she asked (the baby had something like a reddish birth mark). My reply was “She’s still attached to me mum!” Yeah… that didn’t make any sense whatsoever did it?
I guess the dream is a reflection of real life in that the baby is running out of room.
Most of the time she’s fine, but then she will bunch up under my ribs and I can’t do anything, not even talk, without feeling out of breath. Her squirming can be painful at times too, especially when parts of her jut out the side suddenly. My belly is often lop-sided after I’ve been lying down – it’s kind of gross.
Baby is a good size and is still in a good head-down position. All is well in the development side of things.
I have decided to stop driving for now. My belly is only a couple centimetres from the steering wheel, and it’s almost impossible to look back to safely reverse. Looks like the hubby is out of luck for a sober driver until after the baby is born.
This is my last week of work! I’ll be glad when I don’t have to compete for a seat on crowded buses, and be uncomfortably stuck to my chair each day. It will be good for the carpal tunnel to not have to be on th computer all day too. Bring on Friday!
33 week and 6 days pregnant
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