It all begins at 2.26am the morning of 6th September 2009. My first contraction (that I was aware of) woke me up then and, about an hour after that, pockets of my waters started to trickle out. We phoned the emergency triage number after an hour or so to see what to do & they [...]
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History Repeats.
Posted in birth, caesarean section, hospital, labour on 12 September 2009 | 4 Comments »
On being “overdue” and consultant appointments
Posted in birth, hospital, labour on 28 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m thoroughly unimpressed and more than a little angry.
Simon & I have just been to the hospital for a consultant appointment. From what the midwife said I understood that the appointment was to arrange a monitoring plan for if I go more than 12 days over the scan due date. To a certain extent it [...]
Mental pregnant woman eats her words
Posted in birth, pregnancy on 27 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am officially going mental. I phoned the doctor’s surgery today to ask what LMP date I gave at the time of my first doctor’s appointment after I discovered I was pregnant. The date I gave was 22nd November, not 30th therefore, making my LMP EDD as calculated by Naegele’s Rule 30th August 2009. If [...]
When is my baby actually due?
Posted in baby stuff, birth, midwife, pregnancy, ultrasound on 24 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about this whole EDD (expected delivery date) business. How the hell can you tell when a baby is going to be born? Quite simply, you can’t. You can use statistics gathered by people over the years to hazard a guess, but there really is no dead certain way of knowing when a [...]
Pre-birth ponderings
Posted in birth, labour on 17 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before I went on maternity leave I asked a work colleague why she thought labour was called labour to which she replied “because it’s very hard work”. I like this description and think that her words were chosen well. She could’ve said “because it’s painful” or something else to describe the physical sensations, but [...]
