Congratulations Jennifer! It always takes a little bit for the reality of pregnancy to settle in, I think, no matter when it happens. All the best for a wonderful pregnancy, and hope you find a great midwife too!
Oh Jen that is such fabulous news!! I was just looking at your signature yesterday and had this weird "huh?" moment and was thinking "but isn't Jen pregnant?"... my instincts were ahead of the game!! I hope you're not too stressed about the MW hunt, I know you had a hard time last time.
Ladybirdflies- it is SO exciting to be the pregnantest in the group! Not long now
Tenibear- it's also really exciting to be bumping up the list, it feels like it's becoming more real and permanent.
Ok so I've read some books so far, really have to get stuck into my hypnobirthing one though - my midwives are used to calm births and I think I'll feel very self conscious if I scream or swear in front of them. I know from the last two that I am a bit of a screamer though, helps me release. Has anyone else had two screamy births and then a nice calm birth? Or have an idea on how to stop myself from screaming?
My last appointment with my midwives involved meeting the OB that works in conjunction with them. She wants me to take the GTT even though I didn't take the test last time and my baby was only 7 pound 12. She said its because I've packed on a lot of weight already, thats why she wants me to take it. I think I'm just a fat arse who can't stop eating carbs and sugar and thats why I've put on so much weight. When you go from an extremely low carb diet and start eating carbs again, you are bound to put lots of weight on right?
I've been testing my blood glucose levels at home and so far they are fine - I'm considering emailing my midwife and OB and asking if I could skip the test but instead do daily testings on myself.
If you're happy to do the tests yourself with a kit then I say go for it. Just let them know you would like to take that course of action. Much more accurate anyway and no toxic sludge drink
Jen congratulations on baby number 3 what a beautiful surprise... Sometimes we (or husbands perhaps in your case) do well with things just spontaneously happening on there own Hope the mw hunt is easier than expected to.
Arimeh I don't have an opinion for you re gtt... But I wouldnt really worry about making noise in front of your MWs, I'm sure that even if they have lots of women who hypnobirth they'd be experienced with 'louder' births as well. And in my person experience how you are in one birth can be completely different to another. My first two I didn't make much noise at all only a little deep moaning towards the end really, my fourth practically no noise at all. But my 3rd and this birth I made more noise (same kinda noises just more and much louder!). I think a lot depends on how the actual labour progresses etc (my noisey ones were super intense and difficult to cope with)
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many many congratulations, DD3 is our surprise baby and she is just wonderful
Hope the mw hunt is easier than expected to.
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