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February 24, 2005
Kicking Up A Storm
Third midwife's visit on Tuesday. I think we've gotten into the same-old-same-old routine at this point. Uneventful pregnancy, past all the initial new and getting to know each other stuff, and far enough away from anything major that needs doing or will happen.
I think PreZ was a bit bored. Granted, he was also functioning on about 3 hours of sleep, so that probably didn't help.
The thing that doesn't help is that our midwife is very laid back. To the point where you're sometimes straining to find something to talk about. Mostly also because you don't really want to have your appointment be over really fast either, or at least you just feel like only being in there 10-15 minutes is too short. But to be honest, at the moment, that's pretty much all the time it takes, though we were there about half an hour or so.
In the next visits though the birth prep stuff is going to get started, making a birthplan, discussing preferences and all that. So it'll get a bit more interesting I think. 2-3 more visits in Harlem and then she'll start doing home visits (around 32 weeks), that'll definitely be cool, because that longass walk from the 125th street train station to our appointment still has my shin muscles sore 2 days later :P
So the usual belly prodding, to see where my womb/uterus is, which is now level with my navel. For those interested in the profile shot, I posted a week 20 picture in my previous baby post earlier this week. I'm definitely noticeably bigger than the last one, and just noticeably bigger to myself. More overhang ;) Granted, poking it, there's definitely extra fat padding going on. But we also slacked off on the exercise the last 2.5 weeks with PreZ first hurting his leg and then coming down with a virus. Though we did go to karate class last night.
My bloodpressure was good, something like 108/68 or so. The baby's heartbeat was also good, somewhere in the mid 140s, when it would actually stay still long enough to pin point it with the doppler stethoscope ;)
As I mentioned in the previous post, for the past week PreZ has been able to feel the baby moving too, which is so cool :) It's nice to not be the only one, and have him involved a little more directly in something that is tangible. Sometimes it bothers me a bit that he basically gets to do this whole thing from what are essentially the sidelines. I know it's what biology intended and all that, but you still sometimes worry that the menfolk feel a bit excluded. Still, he's been the best support I could hope for so far.
The baby's just been moving a lot more in the last week, which I'm sure will continue to increase. Last night just after we went to bed and were talking a bit, the baby decided to get really active. I think it was because I'd laid down on my back, it seems to be more active when I'm in that position. And probably because I was just not moving at that point. PreZ got to feel lots of movement, for quite a while. Kicking and rolling and moving around, and definitely more vigourous than it had been all day combined (and possibly for the last few days running). The little show-off! :P
Posted on 04:46 PM to: Pregnancy