An eventful day

I had a busy morning today.  My 40 week ultrasound was scheduled for 10:30.  I made it to the parking lot down the street when I realized I forgot the requisition form from Min... I went in anyway and mentioned I had forgotten the form, so the receptionist had to call the midwifery for another requisition.  DOH!

There was some sort of mix-up with the list on the computer and I ended up waiting over 1/2 hour to get into an ultrasound room... I was assured it wasn't because of the forgotten form. :-/

Anyway.  I finally got called in to the hottest room in the whole building, and the ultrasound began.  I didn't get to see baby's face this time.  All I got to see was his spine, a pair of hands and his leg, which is up against my rib where I've been feeling pain (that explains a lot).  The good news is, instead of having his back down my left side, which is how he's done things for the last 2 months almost, he had his back facing my stomach, which is ideal for labour.  Yay!  Hopefully he stays like that.

After the ultrasound, I made my way around the block to the midwifery around 11:30 for my appointment.  I was 15 minutes early, but that gave me ample time for the pee test and weighing myself.  A very nice young woman chatted with me for a few minutes after I sat down.  Sadly she was also there to see Min, so I ended up waiting until 12:05 to see her.

My BP is up (yay!) - 104/70 and my fundal height is 40cm.  Baby's heart rate is strong and he was giving some nice big kicks while she was using the doppler machine.

We did another internal exam and there were some differences from last week.  My cervix is not in such a posterior position and has become softer (evening primrose oil to the rescue!).  Although I wasn't dilated enough for Min to do a "stretch and sweep", she did a little "massaging" of the cervix, which unfortunately caused some bleeding and cramping (both normal).

So to sum up, the baby seems ready to go, but I'm not quite there yet.  So I have another ultrasound scheduled for next Wednesday to check the growth of the baby and another midwife appointment the same day.  Hopefully the baby comes before then and those appointments can get cancelled.

One crappy thing is that Min wants me to record the baby's movements twice a day now.  I'm only irritated because he moves all day long pretty much (he's SUPER active today) and it'll be a pain to have to start recording those movements.

So Ryan and I are guessing the baby might make his appearance around the original due date of the 14th.