madelinekelly

The house is progressing frustratingly slowly. At this rate we'll have the render finished by the weekend, but that leaves Matt with basically no time to get all his scaffold-worthy jobs done before the baby is due. He is understandably stressed and upset by this. I am trying to stay focussed on having a happy birth, and not getting sucked into worrying about the house again. We're not going to be able to live there until next March anyway so it's all moot.

Baby update! I had potentially my last midwife appointment today. My blood pressure is still low, which is great. The Braxton Hicks contractions have been doing their job of shifting the baby into position, and now she is apparently perfectly positioned for birth. Three-fifths engaged as well (which just means that her head has sunk so low into my pelvis that only two-fifths of it can be felt from the outside). This makes me really happy because I'd been worrying that I'd start waddling when she engaged -- and I haven't at all. I've been feeling a lot of twisting/turning low in my abdomen, which is also good according to the midwife: it's the baby trying to get her head at exactly the right angle.

Last week I had glucose in my urine sample, which got the midwife worrying about gestational diabetes. If I'd had the same thing this week then I'd have had to do the horrible fasting/overloading-with-sugar blood test tomorrow. And if that had turned out positive then they would probably have induced birth within a week. Induction is unpleasant so I was really worrying about this. But luckily I had a clear reading today. Hurray!

And that's how things stand at the moment. :)