Ok, I am so horribly behind on everything, arghhhh. The dr. appointment took my whole morning, but then I decided to just be even more late for work. Just because I can. Rawr.
I'm behind on the FB group because I can't view it from work and there are way too many notifications on the phone to make like ANY sense out of it. I'll report on there as soon as I get home, which is in about two hours and that makes me happy (man, I'd love to work part time these days, wow).
I'll also just horribly copypaste what I just wrote in my journal, too, because it's just easier, haha:
35w 3d - another appointment
Mr Hippo measured 5lb 14oz today. Ok, the weight is just an estimate, within 20% of what the computer says (they use the Hadlock scale here), but he's still on the 70th percentile and therefore a little bit hippo...ish. His head measured a few days behind, but his belly was a few days ahead, of course. Oink.
Everything else was really good, too. My blood pressure is still pretty low, 110/64, so they were very happy with that, considering how far along I am. My urine's fine and my strep B swab will actually happen next week when I go back in (we're now on a weekly schedule, too, wow).
We had a chat about the whole strep thing, too. If I test positive (and there's a 20% chance for that), I'll need a penicillin IV when I come in to give birth, as well as a bit more of than fun stuff for both of us after the hippo comes out. I asked if I could get tested today and then put on some sort of a therapy right away, if the test came back positive, but the doctor said it would pretty much do nothing at all. If I am a carrier, it means I'm a carrier, not actually infected and there are no antibiotics pretty much that would clear me out of the colony. It's the baby who we need to protect, and it's not yet been figured out who can and who can't pass the infection onto the baby.
So if I test positive, I'll get the dose when I come in to deliver. It won't be anything even remotely close to 4 hours of constant IV, but instead just a one-time thing that takes about 10 minutes to drip into my system. Then I'm good to go, as in free to resume my whatever program of suffering I choose to be on.
So I guess it'll be what it'll be. Perhaps I just won't have the strep, right?
Vaccines... we're putting off until I deliver. That was the doctor's recommendation and it pretty much sounds similar to what I discussed with my chief immunologist friend, too. We're not giving the baby the HepB vaccine for sure, though.
And that's pretty much it. The doctor doesn't do any routine vaginal checkups, but they did bring it up because I have the right, of course, to demand them. I said no. The doctor had no reasons to go look under the hood and, at the same time, I chose to simply not know anything about engagement/effacement/dilation because, well, what would I do with that info? Likely just google my ass off and find a million reasons to stress about.
The doctor said we're good to go, should Hippo decide to come out. He's good size, head is down and my external signs (as in symptoms) are showing that things are starting to progress (pretty big discomfort in my pelvic area, plus some lower back tension, plus the stabbing from yesterday). So if I go into labour, they'd let me just get it done. If I don't, even better, of course, because we have some weeks to go. The amount of fluid was great, the baby's HB is perfect, kidneys look good and my placenta is on the right side, way above the cervix with just about no chance at all of detaching and/or going out first. So that's all good.
The doctor also agreed with me on no-cervix-check, because there is nothing we would do at this point, regardless of the result.
I'm up 10 kilos total (22lbs) from my starting weight and the doctor is very happy about that, as well as other things, such as my levels of everything, including blood pressure. He said, again, to just keep up the good work, because in his practice, he doesn't get enough of easy patients. Well, that was nice to hear, for sure!
My next appointment is on the 25th, which is just next week. Whoa. We're really getting there.
as much as I want baby here... It's still so surreal! I cannot picture it at all! My mam brought up our changing station today and its sitting in the sitting room.., was so weird moving some of DS's things to fit it in... I keep looking at it trying to imagine actually using it lol!! DS is obsessed with it and wants to wheel it round lol
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