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Proper this second I had my ultimate “month-to-month” midwife appointment- from proper right here on out, they’re every two weeks.
My appointment was with the first midwife I met on the observe, and I like her. She walks into the room, sits in her chair and seems at me, in a position to reply questions and takes the entire sweet time on the planet. It’s nearly very good. I requested her about some issues I had [what happens if my baby is breech? What are the policies on induction? Does what I eat for breakfast affect my gestational diabetes test results? Etc. Etc] and we listened to the new child and she or he measured my abdomen.
I can’t get better from how STRONG the heartbeat sounds. Every time I hear it, it makes me barely emotional, and so fully happy to hearken to her coronary coronary heart galloping away in there.
After which the kicker of the day:
I wanted to get a flu shot :/
Typically I steer clear of needles identical to the plague, nonetheless since getting knocked up, all people must inject me with one factor or take my blood. I haven’t had a flu shot in on the very least 4 years, principally because of I seem to *knock on wood* steer clear of the flu and wish to not inject one factor into my bloodstream that I wouldn’t ingest (like gelatin). The midwife suggested me the flu wasn’t one factor to fiddle with –she talked about that viruses may trigger thoughts hurt in a rising fetus- so I went for it.
The nurse who gave me the shot was a very fairly woman from Australia. I was asking her concerning the place she was from, her family, if she liked Gurrumul, and she or he was telling me that Australian’s choose to make fast phrases prolonged and prolonged phrases fast. For example, mosquito = mozzie. Costume = cozzie. She talked about that they on a regular basis used to say “What’s smaller than an ant’s pants? A mozzie’s cozzie.”
So I noticed one factor new as she gave me the shot, which didn’t hurt virtually as lots as I remembered it hurting 😉 I’ve you may need to drink quite a few juice and leisure right now, merely in case I don’t get barely blah from the shot.
In two weeks I’ve the dreaded gestational diabetes examine. I’m actually not too fearful about it. The midwife talked about to have a extreme protein meals plan (no straightforward sugars, cereals or juices), like an omelet or peanut butter toast, and she or he thinks I’ll be constructive. They’ll give me the 50g of sugar drink to drink in 5 minutes (bzzzzzz) and I’ll wait an hour, then they’ll take my blood. The one bonus is that I’ve one different midwife appointment after the examine and might get to hearken to the new child’s heartbeat as soon as extra 🙂
I’m carried out with ultrasounds [I had the initial one, nuchal translucency test, and 20 week]till there’s a trigger later to check the fluid ranges or the new child’s measurement. It’s so crazy to suppose that the next time I *see* her, shall be specifically individual in its place of on a show