Today is the 31 May 2012 - Baby Wells due date! I have been counting down this date for so many months now, and when I woke up this morning it just felt like any other morning. I wasn't expecting bells and whistles to go off, but I did think I would of had my baby by now. But no I'm still waiting for that day to arrive, you never know it could happen today still - but as each hour ticks over the thought of this happening is starting to evaporate. Baby Wells will make his or her appearance into the world when he or she is good and ready - obviously I've been too good of an incubator so far for that to of happened sooner rather then the later. The day will come - what date that will be is anybodys guess! I'm hoping it's not too far away! So happy due date baby wells - we hope to be meeting you real soon!
How far along? 40 weeks!!!
Total weight gain/loss: 12.2kg gain
Maternity clothes? Love anything that isn’t too tight around the under of my belly. I must confess I have started to wear a couple of Keegans t-shirts around the house and my pj bottoms when no one is around. It feels so nice to have nothing constricting you.
Stretch marks? I have so many now I don’t know what to do with them all. I was looking back at photos of my belly 2 weeks ago and there was nothing there! Now it’s like a giant fest pit for stretch marks! They have been so itchy and yes I have been scratching them, I can’t help it!! Because of all my scratching they are even redder, raised and slightly scabby if that’s possible. I hope this doesn’t cause them to scare even worse, only time will tell I guess! Keegan is on scratch watch at home and if I go to scratch them he has to stop me - so technically it's not my fault! You try having an itchy fire on your stomach and not touch it!
Sleep: Sleeping is going ok, I have been having power naps most afternoons this week, it gets to like 3pm and I can’t keep my eyes open so I go lay on the couch find some crummy pregnancy show on Austar and have a quick kip – only half to an hour or so then I’m up and ready for Keegan to come home and to cook tea. I thought this might affect how I sleep at night but I still seem to go to bed and wake at the same time.
Best moment this week: Keegan and I got to see baby wells when we went to the drs earlier on in the week. Haven’t had an ultrasound for about 6 or more weeks I guess, so it was nice to have a look to see how everything was.
Miss Anything? Being not pregnant and able to move around with ease!
Movement: Heaps of movement most days. It will feel funny when there will be nothing inside of me wriggling around.
Food cravings: Anything and everything – I am like a bin for food.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing this week.
Gender: It’s a Mystery…
Labour Signs: Still nothing, I have been having more pelvic pain of late, but that’s about it. When I went to the Drs earlier on in the week and we had a scan, he confirmed that the baby is now laying in a full posterior position with the head still not engaged. He thought that may be why the head isn’t engaged because of the position it is in. He measured the head size and it is measuring at a 36 week baby size so he said that the head isn’t the issue why it won’t get into the pelvis as he thinks ill now have a small baby and that when my waters break it will just get in there….so once again I’m playing the waiting game! No c-section for me by the sounds of it! I am booked in to see the drs again on Monday and see what they say then! I will be over my due date so I’m hoping that they will book me in for an inducement later on in the week. I do not want to have to wait until I’m nearly 42 weeks to have this baby! That seems forever away! Fingers crossed it comes naturally over the weekend!
Belly Button in or out? Out!!
Wedding rings on or off? On, but not by choice! I can no longer get them off and my fingers continue to swell. It’s mostly worse at night and early morning so I’m hoping this baby will come out soon!
Happy or Moody most of the time: Still anxious! I hate waiting and the days ticking over seem to be taking forever!! Every twinge of pain I get I hope it is something to do with me going into labor, but no they just seem to be random twinges of pain. Bugger!
Looking forward to: My next Drs appointment and hoping they will induce me next week sometime! I keep thinking it’s nearly all over, but as each week passes and as each drs appointment comes and goes, it’s always the same thing - come back next week for a check. I guess it will have to end one day but it seems like I have a carrot (chocolate one of course) dangling in front of me and I can’t seem to catch it. Fingers crossed once again that this will be my last pre-baby post! Next time I will have copious amounts of baby photos to share, that of course I will think are utterly amazing.
Facts about posterior babies
Just some reading i've been doing on posterior position babies - it doesn’t seem all too bad does it??
· There are a few babies that start labour in a posterior position. This is when the baby's back is facing the woman's back inside her uterus, on either her left or right side. Posterior babies are simply a variation of normal. They are not in themselves a complication.
· About 90% of posterior babies will turn to the more common anterior position, during the course of the woman's labour, before the birth. About 10% of posterior babies will come down the birth canal, still in the posterior position, being born looking up at their mother's belly (instead of looking down towards her bottom!). Caregivers often refer to this as the baby being born 'face to pubes'.
· Prosterior babies produce more pain in the woman's back, rather than in her front.
· Takes a little longer, as the baby rotates around to the front.
· The baby's head being 'deflexed' (or looking forward), rather than 'flexed' (and looking down with their chin on their chest), meaning that the baby's head may not fully engage, until the labour is established.
· Taking longer to push the baby, out as their head rotates, and flexes.
· Causing the mother to tear if the baby's head is born in a posterior position.
· Progressing just as efficiently as anterior labours, especially if the woman has good contractions, assumes forward leaning, active birth positions and has a positive attitude, with the baby turning to become anterior, before being born.