The last week and a bit has been absolutely horrendous. When I went in for the 19 weeks heartbeat check it took her ages to find it. Then I went down to LSCC on Saturday, which was mostly really good fun but also felt strange as last year I was there pregnant with C so it got a bit emotional at times. Also saw my (pregnant) sister afterwards and we talked about family stuff, well I ranted, and stuff has stayed with me since then.
Then Sunday was Mother's Day which was absolutely godawful. Then Monday was also awful so I didn't go into work as I wasn't functioning very well (and it's been a long time since I was not functioning). Went into work on Tuesday through to Thursday, and gradually got better throughout the week.
Had another heartbeat check on Wednesday, again it took her a while to find it, but I was a lot calmer because the baby was moving just before I went in. Thursday was the 20 week scan and everything is fine, but the scan wasn't nice and my brain was refusing to make sense of what I saw on screen. I cried through a lot of it.
Physically my back, hips and shoulders hurt. I think this is mostly due to sleeping with the wrong sort of pillows though. It's a constant experiment.
In my last post I said I was going to call the midwife to ask about a bit of pain - I didn't. I'm scared to. I spoke to her about it when I saw her on Wednesday. She said the real emergencies, and when I need to ring delivery suite are if I have reduced movement, bleeding, extensive pain, my waters break or I feel really unwell. Anything else I ring her.
I may write up my my notes from the consultant meeting after the 20 week scan and post them here.
16 weeks to go.
Then Sunday was Mother's Day which was absolutely godawful. Then Monday was also awful so I didn't go into work as I wasn't functioning very well (and it's been a long time since I was not functioning). Went into work on Tuesday through to Thursday, and gradually got better throughout the week.
Had another heartbeat check on Wednesday, again it took her a while to find it, but I was a lot calmer because the baby was moving just before I went in. Thursday was the 20 week scan and everything is fine, but the scan wasn't nice and my brain was refusing to make sense of what I saw on screen. I cried through a lot of it.
Physically my back, hips and shoulders hurt. I think this is mostly due to sleeping with the wrong sort of pillows though. It's a constant experiment.
In my last post I said I was going to call the midwife to ask about a bit of pain - I didn't. I'm scared to. I spoke to her about it when I saw her on Wednesday. She said the real emergencies, and when I need to ring delivery suite are if I have reduced movement, bleeding, extensive pain, my waters break or I feel really unwell. Anything else I ring her.
I may write up my my notes from the consultant meeting after the 20 week scan and post them here.
16 weeks to go.
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