37 weeks
I had a lovely first day off, despite having to work in the morning.
My friend Harriet and her daughter Ruby came round for lunch then I had the midwife in the afternoon followed by a long promised trip to the park with Freyja. It felt different - like a weight was off my shoulders.
The baby's head is now 3/5s engaged. I was pleased - at my last appointment the head wasn't down at all and it was lying breech. This is apparently very normal with second pregnancies and often the head doesn't even engage until you go into labour. But yesterday it was right down - that will explain the constant trips to the loo. I know it doesn't mean I'm going to go into labour at any minute, but it does show that everything is starting to get ready. I am also measuring spot on for my weeks - 37 cms at 37 weeks pregnant. This is good because everyone keeps telling me how massive I am this time so now I can tell them that actually I am exactly as big as I should be! I asked the midwife for a guess at the weight and she thought it was around 6 pounds 4oz at the moment and I have 3 weeks or so left to go.
I have to say though that I do feel it could all happen at any moment. I had stomach cramps on Sunday night and it brought home to me how close it all is. I had a sudden panic about being completely unprepared in terms of what I would do with Freyja. At that time my sister was on holiday, my mum and dad were in Dubai, my friends Katie & Paul have just had their first baby and my friend Harriet was first point of call for Alice, who was overdue. Now my sister is back and Alice has just had her baby so I'm a bit more relaxed. Harriet will be my first point of call now and will come over until my sister arrives (or my parents if it happens after the 14th, which is what I'm hoping for). I suppose I'd better let my sister know this.
The logistics of having a second baby are a bit of a nightmare. There's no time to get worried about the birth - you're too busy trying to sort out what to do with the first one!
My friend Harriet and her daughter Ruby came round for lunch then I had the midwife in the afternoon followed by a long promised trip to the park with Freyja. It felt different - like a weight was off my shoulders.
The baby's head is now 3/5s engaged. I was pleased - at my last appointment the head wasn't down at all and it was lying breech. This is apparently very normal with second pregnancies and often the head doesn't even engage until you go into labour. But yesterday it was right down - that will explain the constant trips to the loo. I know it doesn't mean I'm going to go into labour at any minute, but it does show that everything is starting to get ready. I am also measuring spot on for my weeks - 37 cms at 37 weeks pregnant. This is good because everyone keeps telling me how massive I am this time so now I can tell them that actually I am exactly as big as I should be! I asked the midwife for a guess at the weight and she thought it was around 6 pounds 4oz at the moment and I have 3 weeks or so left to go.
I have to say though that I do feel it could all happen at any moment. I had stomach cramps on Sunday night and it brought home to me how close it all is. I had a sudden panic about being completely unprepared in terms of what I would do with Freyja. At that time my sister was on holiday, my mum and dad were in Dubai, my friends Katie & Paul have just had their first baby and my friend Harriet was first point of call for Alice, who was overdue. Now my sister is back and Alice has just had her baby so I'm a bit more relaxed. Harriet will be my first point of call now and will come over until my sister arrives (or my parents if it happens after the 14th, which is what I'm hoping for). I suppose I'd better let my sister know this.
The logistics of having a second baby are a bit of a nightmare. There's no time to get worried about the birth - you're too busy trying to sort out what to do with the first one!
posted by solveig at
6:01 pm
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tell me about it - we had no-one we could easily call on to look after Jacob. You'd just had Freyja, or you & Ade would have been the obvious candidates, but we didn't feel he would have been comfortable with anyone else. As it was, when Doug tried to call people in the middle of the night to see if they could come and look after him, he either got ansaphone messages or the phone slammed down before he had a chance to say anything!
We'd already had the conversation that, if it came to it, he might have to miss the birth; once I knew it was going to be a c section, I was less bothered as its less of an ordeal for the mum being much much quicker than normal labour. I could have done with him when they were giving me the epidural though - it didn't half make me feel sick and dizzy :(
I remember finding a missed call in the morning from Doug and then we found out you'd had Sam. That is my worry, not being able to get hold of anyone if it happens in the middle of the night. It will be fine if I can hang on until my mum is here because their phone will be right by the bed waiting, but it will still take them at best an hour and a half to get to us, so we've also discussed that if the worst comes to the worst I'll have to go by myself.
My friend Harriet has told me just to keep calling the house phone until she answers if we need her to come!
Hopefully I'll be in labour during the day like I was with Freyja, and it will be slightly easier to sort out.
S x
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