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My Due Date: January 12, 2015I have given birth!
Age: 38 years old
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
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Halfway There
By prinder » Posted Aug. 27, 2014 11:29am - 410 views - 0 comments
Looking back at my 16 week Midwife appointment, I realise that, come my next appointment, I'm going to have to be more on the ball about testing: apparently we were supposed to talk about scheduling the Glucose Tolerance Test, but the only thing we did was check the baby's heart rate. Oops.
This, if course, has only come to me since I've started reviewing my book of notes related to the pregnancy in the wake of my 20 week Ultrasound. How did that go? All in all, pretty good, I'd say.
We were lucky, we got the same technician we had at our first scan, which was great fun since the tech has a sense of humour and I'm always game for hamming things up as much as possible.
In the UK, they require verbal consent before performing the 20 week scan, though I can't be sure if that's unusual or not for the rest of the world. As it is an anomaly scan, they check for potential problems and how the baby is growing in more detail - heart, growth, fluid around the baby and the placenta's position are just a few of the things they look at.
For us, everything came out fine, except for one small detail that warrants a follow-up scan further down the line: the placenta has implanted low in the uterus (which would go a long way towards explaining why Sprout likes sleeping in the cradle of my pelvis - there's extra padding down there!) not so low that it's covering the opening, mind, but still enough that they will want to follow-up and make sure that it's moved out of the way.
I'm, honestly, not worrying about it, though it will in all likelihood increase my level of risk that I can kiss the idea of water birthing goodbye.
All that said, my next appointment for the midwife is scheduled for the 30 of September and the follow-up scan is set for the 11th of November. Either of which, I may not be able to make due to life having other ideas.
Now, because there's a whole ton of jargon in these case notes that I don't understand, I have some research to do!
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Halfway There
By prinder » Posted Aug. 27, 2014 11:29am - 410 views - 0 comments
Looking back at my 16 week Midwife appointment, I realise that, come my next appointment, I'm going to have to be more on the ball about testing: apparently we were supposed to talk about scheduling the Glucose Tolerance Test, but the only thing we did was check the baby's heart rate. Oops.
This, if course, has only come to me since I've started reviewing my book of notes related to the pregnancy in the wake of my 20 week Ultrasound. How did that go? All in all, pretty good, I'd say.
We were lucky, we got the same technician we had at our first scan, which was great fun since the tech has a sense of humour and I'm always game for hamming things up as much as possible.
In the UK, they require verbal consent before performing the 20 week scan, though I can't be sure if that's unusual or not for the rest of the world. As it is an anomaly scan, they check for potential problems and how the baby is growing in more detail - heart, growth, fluid around the baby and the placenta's position are just a few of the things they look at.
For us, everything came out fine, except for one small detail that warrants a follow-up scan further down the line: the placenta has implanted low in the uterus (which would go a long way towards explaining why Sprout likes sleeping in the cradle of my pelvis - there's extra padding down there!) not so low that it's covering the opening, mind, but still enough that they will want to follow-up and make sure that it's moved out of the way.
I'm, honestly, not worrying about it, though it will in all likelihood increase my level of risk that I can kiss the idea of water birthing goodbye.
All that said, my next appointment for the midwife is scheduled for the 30 of September and the follow-up scan is set for the 11th of November. Either of which, I may not be able to make due to life having other ideas.
Now, because there's a whole ton of jargon in these case notes that I don't understand, I have some research to do!
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