Its so annoying when I'm in the middle of updating, minimise my browser (on my phone) and it erases my whole entry..
Anyway, take 2.
We officially have no boys name. Only middle names.
Urgh! We just cannot agree on a name.
I love:
And Chris hates them all!!
Sigh.
How hard can a boys name be to agree on?!
Looks like this baby, if it is a boy, will be nameless for a little while.
So yesterday, we had our first little practice run.
We went to do a big asda (supermarket) shop, to grab things we don't usually buy weekly so we are stocked up for babies arrival, like toilet roll, coffee and such.
We don't even drink coffee... But I was thinking a lot of our families do. So when they come to visit, we have it in. My midwife drinks it too so if she does any more home visits we have it in.
Anyway, just as I finished getting the fruit & veg (after going to the toilet) I felt a huge wet warm blob come out down below. I was mid conversation with Chris.. And he just saw my face and knew something was wrong.
I told him I think my waters just broke and that I need to run to the toilet and check. So we pretty much ran to the toilet.
I checked, annoyingly I had black pants on, but they were soaked to my jeans, my jeans were only a little damp.
I came out the toilet and told Chris, he said we should go, but this asda was an hour away from home.. We never go here... So I was determined to finish the shopping.
If I felt another big gush then id tell him, we would pay for what we already have and go.
My hind waters went first with Cameron, so I knew what that felt like.
We carried on shopping and I had no more gushes.
Then as I (yes me! Driving!!) was driving home I felt very leaky. We had to go home, I didn't have my notes with me.
Infact I haven't even finished my hospital bag or written my birth plan.
Still I had no pains, just a few tightenings and lots of leaks.
As soon as we got home, Chris brought all the shopping in and put it all away while I tried to phone the hospital to see what they thought.
After ringing The number 4 times, I finally got through to someone.
They told me I needed to go in and be checked. I also realised then and there that I hadn't felt the baby move all day.
So they wanted to monitor me too.
I was what's apping my mum since asda, so she had a rough idea what was going on. Luckily she was working from home so she offered to look after Cameron while we went to hospital.
While she was on her way over, I had a quick shower and shave (it's been a while!!!) and Chris jumped in the shower after.
He was so excited!
I drove (yes me!!!) to the hospital as soon as mum arrived at ours. When we got there we were all booked in ready.
We were put in an assessment room and waited for someone to come.
A midwife and a student came and spoke to us.
I had to leave my pad in the bathroom with a bedpan full of my wee. Urgh I hate leaving it in places.
My pee was so dark, I knew I was gonna be told off for not drinking enough.
The student midwife felt baby and tried waking it up, with no such luck.
She told me s/he is head down facing my right still (like it has the last month).
I asked her if I was engaged and she said no
I also asked her if my sample was ok, as she wanted to take my bp.
I had trace of protein and keystone?? (The thing you get from not drinking enough). Luckily my bp is fine
I have no swelling either.
They told me the protein sometimes shows up if your waters have gone. Which sounded promising!!
So I was eventually hooked up to the monitor machine, stayed on it for about 45 minutes.
Baby slept through pretty much the first half hour... Which they don't like to see. So we had to try and wake it up so the heart rate goes up and down. I also had to push a button whenever I felt it move.
Eventually, the only thing that got it awake was Chris poking it in the head and talking to it. Looks like another daddy's child!!
So they were pleased.
Next they had to check if my waters were going. I had another big blob after doing my pee sample for them... So my new pad had a little something on, but they said it was nothing.
Urgh now the next thing I say, is the reason why I never want student midwifes to go near me again. It's my personal choice,
I understand everyone has to learn... But not on me please.
I had to have a speculum.
The student was going to do it.
Who had never done it before.
I wasn't even asked if this was ok.
They asked me to undress, which I did.
I used the sheet to try and keep my dignity a bit, sat on the bed and waited for them.
The trained midwife had already told me to put my feet together and open my legs, even though they weren't even ready.
She had also completely left me exposed on the bed because she had moved the sheet.
So there's me, laying on the bed with my fanny out. Brilliant.
While the student midwife and other midwife are still putting gloves on and looking at the speculum.
Awkward.
So when they are eventually ready, the student comes at me with this speculum.... I didn't look.
She put the tip in..
THEN TRIED TO OPEN IT.
Oh my.
I felt like I was being ripped in half.
I've never felt such pain.
Eventually the other midwife told her how to correct it. But OUCH.
they had a look, said they couldn't see any waters, took some swabs of some watery discharge and that was it.
I was told it looked like normal pregnancy discharge.
So fingers crossed.
But never ever again.
They wrote in my notes and we came home
As soon as Thursday hits, I'm trying everything to get baby out. I'm fed up of being pregnant!
If anything the whole evening taught me...
To finish packing all my bags!!!
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I'm not sure but I think I maybe dropping...
36 weeks & 1 day
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36 weeks & 3 days
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very stressful and still a bit overwhelmed but know we will be happy 
