almost 38 weeks · 4 January 2010, 21:03
So, I haven’t posted in quite a while, and I haven’t been writing an update for every midwife appointment like I did last time. Part of this is probably because it’s not as new and unfamiliar; the other reason is that I wrote those updates largely for my own benefit, since I don’t keep a separate journal anymore (I know, I should, but I haven’t regularly kept a journal for several years now). The thing is, my midwife now gives her clients a little mini-chart that records the same information I had been sharing with you. I take it in, she fills in her chart, and then she fills in mine, and I get to have mine at home. It’s quite nice. However, that means I have little to no reason to re-write that information and post it to the blogosphere on the very regular basis that I did last time.
I suppose I should give an update, though:
I weigh about 170, which, oddly enough, is about the same as I weighed last time at this point with Caleb. My uterus is measuring smaller this time, though. Overall I feel smaller, too, so I don’t know where this weight is going.
Unfortunately, and not surprisingly, I am still positive for group beta strep, so I will need to plan on intravenous antibiotics again. (We planned on it last time, but there wasn’t actually time for it) We are also planning on a water birth again. Hopefully this time we will have gotten the tub filled.
My left hip hurts again, same as last time, though not quite as bad. It makes sleeping decidedly uncomfortable, and I wake up in pain whenever I start rolling over in my sleep. For whatever reason, it seems like some ligament or muscle in my left front hip area becomes particularly susceptible to injury during pregnancy, and then commences to not heal until after the baby is out.
Blood pressure is normal.
The baby is head down, and typically seems to be LOA (Left Occipital Anterior — this is good). Caleb was LOA for the most part until the very end when he kept threatening to rotate in a way that would have made labor harder. He also had his hand up by his face. Hopefully this one won’t, but I don’t think you can really do anything about it.
The most serious problem we have is that we have no names for this child. We have a little list of potential names, and we don’t particularly like any of the names on it. It feels pretty silly not to have a name. I can’t remember where, but I have heard this said: “I wouldn’t name a dog without seeing it; why should I name a child without having seen it?”
— Jennifer
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