40 weeks · 19 January 2010, 13:28

Today’s appointment marked 40 weeks! I dropped a pound from last week, now weighing about 170, which my midwife says often happens. Also, my uterus measures smaller, since the baby has dropped further down — 37 cm. This baby is doing the same thing that Caleb did — was left occipital anterior for weeks and weeks, but has now rotated around so that he/she is right occipital transverse, i.e., is turned sideways from me, looking at my left side. As long as the baby doesn’t turn posterior, things should be fine.

My left hip flexor area pain is pretty much gone, but has been replaced by the more typical pelvic pain, which still makes it painful to roll over in bed, only in a different way than before.

What’s funny is feeling my belly — sometimes I will feel it and notice that my uterus is quite hard, but if I take my hand off, I can’t tell that it’s contracting. (These are not the dilation contractions of labor, but just more Braxton-Hicks “practice” contractions that tone the uterus for the real thing). I can feel Braxton-Hicks contractions when I’m walking, but otherwise I am unaware of them happening.

We inflated the waterbirth tub the other day, so it is sitting in our dining room, taking up most of the space.

Last week, my midwife had guessed that I would make it to today’s appointment, which I obviously did; this week she is guessing that I will not make it to next week’s appointment. If I do, I will start seeing her twice a week until the baby comes.

— Jennifer

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