Sheryl, I'm glad you're still all in one piece, I know it's generally *totally* ok for bubs to come at 36 weeks, but it's close to being on the 'too early' side too so I'm glad she's staying in there a bit longer still!!! I have someone on here I've been stalking her journal cos she was due only a week before me; she was 2cm dilated at 36 weeks as well, she was 4cm by 38 weeks and she had her bub at 39 weeks. And so much for being only a week ahead of me, cos her wee girl is now 3 weeks old and I still haven't popped! LOL!!!
Well I got a call today while at work with an appointment for a scan this afternoon; they'd squeezed me in just after lunch.
So I went in and yup; all is well in there! The scan was just to double check that everything is all good, just to reassure us all that waiting is fine for us.
The placenta is looking good and working well, the heart is pumping well, the bladder was full, as was the stomach so they're working well too. The blood was flowing through the cord well, and there was heaps of fluid around it as well. It was a struggle to get it's whole head and whole stomach in on the screen to get an accurate measurement, but it's measuring at about 8.5lb (give or take a lb or more, as it's really only a guess!) and basically it's all looking totally fine, happy and healthy.
And so, we continue to wait!
I got have a friend who mixes up essential oils to complement hypnobirthing, of which I got some ages ago, but I stopped by her place on my way home from work today so she could add some clary sage and rose oils to it; those two oils are to be reserved for the last couple of weeks of pregnancy only, as they are uterine tonics and you don't want them too early in pregnancy in case it brings on an early labour! Obviously I'm not in any risk of going early now (lmao) so lets see if adding them now will help tone my uterus and get things going...!
And if I don't go over the weekend (it's friday evening now) then I have an appointment with the post-date clinic at the hospital on monday morning where they will probably talk about what the options are (ie waiting, inducing, etc) and go from there.
It's labour weekend now, so lets see if I go into labour!