Midwife Appointment Today (& a couple of bump pics)

Today I saw Paquita, another lovely midwife that I’ve seen once before. Julie had spoken to her briefly about my wishes and she mentioned it to me, making sure I still want a homebirth and zero drugs. Everything’s still normal and ok, well apart from one very minor thing but I’ll get to that in a minute.

My BP is normal, Indi’s heart rate is also normal and strong. I remembered to record his/her heartbeat on my mobile phone today, the quality isn’t very good but you can definitely make out the thump thump thumps! Then Paquita had a feel of his/her position and said… “It seems to be back to back”. Oh no!!! I knew it! She suggested doing the hands and knees position to try and ease Indi into anterior and I mentioned visiting Spinning Babies. So you can imagine what I’ve been doing all afternoon and night!!

Just as we were about to leave Carol came into the room (Carol was my original booking-in midwife who has been away for the past four months on another job). Unbelievably she recognised me! She couldn’t believe how big I’ve gotten and then went straight into talking about my opposition towards any drugs and the fact that I want to birth my own baby and have as little intrusion as possible! It seems the midwives have been talking about me… I must be a freak or something, haha! She didn’t have any aggresion, just wanted to make sure that I was sure, all the midwives have been totally cool about letting me go it alone and I’ve reassured them that I do want their presence ‘just in case’. It was nice seeing her again and even nicer that she remembered me, perhaps in a town like this it’s not easy to forget the hippy girl with a long haired husband, 17 cats and a dog! I told her that if she ended up being the attending midwife that we now have two rooms downstairs instead of one and that the animals will be kept seperate from her… much to her relief!

Anyway, all in all it was a good appointment. I’m glad Paquita told me the baby’s position, now I can work at trying to move him/her. Of course this may not work but I have to give it a go!

Oh, and just for kicks here’s two pictures Jeff took when we went for a walk with Skylar yesterday – 39 weeks today (well it’s 2am, that means it’s Thursday now!).