Hello, another night of not sleeping on the cards here it seems.
April LJB and stuffed very very happy for your news :)
Pet hope all is well with you and Ali will be keeping an eye out to hear your happy news, good luck later :)
Update here is that I went along to IM and she brought another midwife friend but didn't tell her what we were checking for to see if she came to any conclusion.....
Well midwife who knew there was some doubt about breech said 60% sure head down and used the pinard (non-electric heartbeat monitor) to better locate heart position which she thought was lower...although aparantly she felt something very very head-like up top. She measured me 37cm
The friend midwife who had no preconceptions as to what we were looking for thought 90% sure head down and 35cm measuring. Feeling bump she actually suspected we might be checking for small growth....
NHS midwife on tuesday was measuring me at 39cm and thinks the baby is huge....
None of them think I'm engaged at this point even though at 34wks I was aparantly 1/5th engaged, it seems that can change.
My conclusion from all this is that it's very very subjective stuff. I don't want an undiagnosed breech and so I called NHS MW again today to try to get a presentation scan so IF we're dealing with breech that there would be just about time to try to turn them, she said she'll come to the house tomorrow and make a decision tomorrow to put me forward or not.
The homebirth is looking slim isn't it.....
My wee boy has been sickening for a cold too so running about trying to keep him comfy has been tricky emotionally and physically.
I've spent a bit of time having a quiet tear or two when I think no one is looking. I felt that quiet today (or is that yesterday grr..) that really unusually for me I didn't go to mass. For about half an hour I was getting stabbing pain in the "lady garden area" internally accompanied by some cloudy thick stretchy mucus (sorry if TMI) and strong BHs. If I hadn't had this seed of doubt sown I'd be greeting these things with joy and excitment but instead it just concerns me that I don't go into labour until i know for certain the presentation and made up my mind as to what I'm going plan as a result.
House is a mess (this is really painful for me as I'm a bit of World of Interiors type fan and my nesting instinct is unbearable), husband is blissfully oblivious it seems, my spd and toddler are making achieving any kind of reasonable headway in getting it back to normal seem like a far off fantasty just now.
The only reasonable summary I can come up with is: "Baby you're safe where you are, you cannot come yet".