Hi
Midwife went well. Iron levels low and threatened with the dreaded constipation pills but promised faithfully to ingest lots of healthy veggie iron rich food and remember to take my floradix religiously. Sugars were good and BP in my normal range.
At least the low iron explains why I am so tired and keep expiring at shop checkouts.
Little madam was right out in front in the waiting room, then immediately turned back to back as soon as I lay down to be measured.
Measuring bang on for dates, which if she follows the existing curve on those individualised charts suggests she will be on the larger side of 8 1/2 - 9 lbs!
Have appointment booked at home in two weeks time for her to come and discuss the home birth with DH and I and drop off the home birth kit. Found out that they can loan me a pool. Apparently we just need to provide a liner, which is great news as I had been thinking about not doing the water birth due to the cost.
She seems very keen to get the birthing situation organised all of a sudden and seemed not to disagree with my gut feeling that we might have an early arrival.
Went for coffee and cake with Mum after the appointment and had my breath taken away by major braxton hicks. Bump was rock solid for ages and really painful. Mum was convinced I was going into labour there and then! Had more pains really low down since getting back from the school run. DH taking boys to visit Nanny for her birthday so think I'd better put my feet up for the evening.
It all suddenly seems very real and very close now. Am sat in my living room looking at the general chaos and mahem and thinking we will never be ready in time!
Thank goodness I ordered a made to measure mattress for the crib last night on 7 day delivery. We have bought one of these bedside cribs and wanted to replace the rather hard cocomat mattress with a softer one. Have had a mattress made to fit the whole width of the crib including the extra panel which hooks over the side of the bed and will get a standard size one from Mothercare or somewhere if we decide to use it with the side up later on. Oh, btw, we are not using the 'luvverly' bedding (ours was yellow) or drapes that came with the cot, we have plain white for while she's in our room. Crib was a bargain at 49 pounds plus delivery though, especially as bedside cribs are hard to get or cost around 175 pounds in the UK.