Quick update

Not in my usual style, I’m going to do a quick update to keep all the inquisitive people out there satisfied…

Eleanor is still tucked up inside me. But she is now fully engaged – in the words of the midwife yesterday ‘Really, really, right down there,’ and will be coming very very soon – again, according to the midwife. She has booked me in for my 39-week appointment next Thursday, but says she’ll be extremely surprised if I need to go and that it’s more likely to be within the next couple of days. She said there’s no way I will go late, let alone make my due date and this baby is very much ready to come out and meet us.

I am now more pregnant than I have ever been before, which is kind of odd. We actually got to talk about methods for active labour and positions for birth and so on, which I never got round to last time – and had pretty much no choice over. She has given me her ‘other mobile number’. The one which you call if you’re in labour. And she will be there to help out if at all possible (she is off over the weekend, though), which is really nice. All the midwives I’ve met up at Stroud Maternity have been lovely, but the possibility of getting such continuity of care and being able to have the same midwife present at the birth who has seen me throughout the pregnancy is just perfect – even if she can’t make it, knowing that she would like to makes a big difference.

Anyway, after all that, last night was the first night in ages when I didn’t have any contractions. Perhaps because I was feeling happier and more relaxed?

So, hopefully the next post will be a birth announcement.

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