The Smell of Little Pong

The Waiting Game

We didn't really go through this with Freyja. Her birthday is so close to Christmas that we hardly had any time to really think about when she might arrive - I was just hoping it wouldn't be Christmas Eve/Day or Boxing Day and we were busy going to parties, meeting friends and looking forward to our first (and last for a long time) Christmas with just the 2 of us, that it didn't really feel like we were just waiting for things to start happening. One advantage of a Christmas baby...

This time, for the last 2 weeks I've felt slightly on edge, wondering when it is going to happen, though I don't mind that it's late as I wanted as much time to rest and get ready as possible. The last 2 days I've suddenly started feeling pretty good. I noticed it on Tuesday night when it got to 10pm and I realised I hadn't been looking at the clock for the last 2 hours wondering if it was still too early to go to bed. Then yesterday afternoon I started feeling a bit weird - slightly nauseous and a bit detached.

I've had my last midwife appointment. Baby is still 3/5s engaged and is lying slightly back to back. Freyja was also back to back which made for a rather painful backache labour and a lot of waiting to see if she would turn - which she did. I'm not sure there is much I can do at this stage to correct it and maybe that's just the way my babies lie - I've already been bouncing on my ball and sitting on the floor rather than the sofa as much as I can.

The midwife was rather more cautious about the chicken pox though. She didn't feel that the immunity provided by my antibodies was as reliable as the GP said. She said I must keep a careful eye on things and if Freyja breaks out (or has already got it) within 7 days of the baby being born I need to take him/her to the doctor. She told me chicken pox caught by the baby 7 days either side of the birth is called neonatal chicken pox and can be rather nasty. It is totally confusing, the amount of contradictory information that there is out there (and of course doesn't help that typing it into Google produces a mass of information which may or may not be correct).

The midwife did make a prediction as to the sex...I'll let you know if she was right, hopefully in a few days time...

Update: The midwife was right. She listened to the heartbeat, asked me if I knew what i was having and when I said no she said it sounded like a boy.

posted by solveig @ 4:00 PM