Congrats Cindee on the birth of Miranda Eva. Lovley name. It's good to hear she is doing well and I hope she won't be too long in hosital. A friend of mine had her little boy at 28 wks and he was in for a ttoal of 13 weeks which seems such a long time.
Deb how long was immy in for?
Ellie I am going to have to stop drinking so much full cream milk, had my OB appt yesterday... bear in mind my babies are ueusally only 6lbs at 38 wks!
Daniel already weighs about 5lb 4oz at 32w5d. I had a complete measurement done on him and his head is already 30.45cm (approx 33w5d), stomach measures 35w4d and femur is 32w4d so all up his approx age works out to be 35w5d according to fluid, fundal height and everything else.
Estimated weight at delivery is supposedly 8 1/4 lb!!! I've never had a baby that big!
He is now head down which also explains all the low pressure I have been getting.
He has the most gorgeous chubby cheeks and clearly defined lips and nose. Will get that pic off the memory stick tomorrow.
The only bad news...
he has the cord around his neck.
Jamie (OB) is not at all worried neither is the midwife, she did try to reassure me saying she delivered a baby yesterday with the cord around it's neck.
Yes I do know many women now who have had their baby withe cord around the neck but it was my baby that died from it so why should I feel reassured?
I have to keep an eye on his movements etc and if at all worried to go straight in for a CTG and if any signs of a problem I'll have an emergency c sec instead of the VBAC my OB has planned.
I am just sooooooo very tired I feel i could sleep for a week yet I still wake up every hour or so.
Jude
Oh Judy the cord around the neck must have freaked you right out!!! I guess all you can do is follow your instincts and if an early c section is what has to happen so be it...anything to hold your little one in your arms. I am getting more anxious as we get closer...seeing Dr this arvo so hopefully that will reassure me...momentarily!!! Daniel sounds like a chunky little monkey lol! I'm still carving chocmilk...DH thinks our bub will come out and start kndy the next day it's so big!!!
Today's drama...DH is expected to drive nearly 5 hours to his Nanna's funeral tomorrow...he is so torn...scared that if he leaves me for the day something will happen and I'm worried about him being upset and driving the 5 hours home. I don't think he should go...he hadn't seen his Nanna for years...do you think I would be horrible for 'begging' him not to go?????
Jude -- it probably won't help if I mention that I was born with the cord around my neck (and at 42 full weeks to boot, so I was 8 lb 15 oz), because I see why it scares you so much. But they're keeping an eye on you. Make sure you call them if you feel anything is not right!
I also sympathize 110% with the inability to sleep. I'm on my way in to the maternity ward at 11 this morning to get my kidneys checked out, because I have a pain in my back/right side that becomes so unbearable when I lie down that I want to scream. I sleep 2-3 hours a night. So yesterday when I got home from work I tried to take a nap -- despite not having any pain right then, I laid in bed for 2 hours without sleeping a wink! I've never understood how it seems you're least able to sleep when you really need it the most.
I managed to rearrange my maternity leave at work though. Now I'm working 50% for the next two weeks while I make sure my replacement can handle the software release that's on deck right now, and then I'm off. And my boss, ever awesome, was like "Are you sure? We don't want you to be stressed right now, so you should be off full time now if you're in pain, you shouldn't be trying to be brave." My job is so super boring and I miss being a teacher, but it's so nice working for caring, flexible people instead of a psychopath school principal.
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