Hey, I'm back. So I'm still pregnant
But that's good because he'd be undercooked by about five days if he came now.
Finally went to bed at 5am with DD and we slept till 8 and then woke up feeling a bit odd so took BP which despite me having been asleep and not legging it round the house my BP was 180/120.
Called the midwife assessment unit but didn't hear back for an hour, by which time it was 170/110 so called CMW who told me to get my bum to the delivery suite pronto (MAU closed for training) where my BP continued to bounce from nearly normal to 110 diastolic so reluctantly I agreed to stay - esp. as DS was breech at this point. And they've only just let me out.
He spent twelve hours upside down then turned, then turned back, driving the midwives bananas (and me actually - quite painful when a five and a half pound baby is doing circuits).
Had lots of scans, they can't see the umbilical cord so I'll have to go back about that - because obviously it could be at the bottom. He has a lot of fluid round him - but we've had an amnio so are not unduly concerned and weighs about five and a half pounds.
The obvious worry is that I have PET again, but am not showing much in the way of signs - though I didn't last time right until five days post partum when my liver started to go wrong.
He made a concerted bid for freedom last night, throwing up, poopy, one contraction per minute for five minutes from the word go (oooh that wasn't nice). But then it just stopped. So really we don't know what to expect at this point, but I'm probably going to be going to hospital to have this baby because of the issues of where the hell the cord is. Which is disappointing but I will have two children who need a mummy so it's important I do the sensible thing - though I'll be having that discussion Wednesday.
I have to pick whether I want a VBAC or a CS again. But I've been told I would have a six hour time limit on a hospital VBAC because of the complications of my heart problems, blood clotting problems blah, blah, blah, but as I have already pointed out to them if all moot if I don't actually go into labour in any case and also how will they know I'm in labour until I pitch up - I could have been labouring ten hours by that point.
The popping sound apparently was the baby squishing the bag of waters, he'd got himself wedged and because there is so much extra fluid it does make noise when he does big movement - it's still freaky but I don't now grab a towel each time.
Right now he's doing fine. My BP is on the cusp of hypertensive but hopefully it'll go down tomorrow when my MiL departs (she helpfully decided it would help to live in my house while I was in hospital ). I know I should be charitable here and say she's helping with childcare (she has been) and she's giving DH support (well she's helping him drink wine) but frankly I will be doing the happy dance the moment she leaves tomorrow because she's been spoiling DD rotten to the point where she hadn't had her teeth brushed once since I was admitted and has basically been allowed to stay up as late as she likes eating ice cream and screaming at the top of her lungs. All so MiL can teach her to say 'gran'.
Honestly I WILL post when I have the baby - providing the sodding patientline service is working - it hasn't been for the entire time I've been in hospital . And I'm 37 weeks this coming Thursday so we will just have to see.