So the day of contractions was not in vain - baby is 2/5 engaged and will probably stay that way. MW said that 3rd babies often require a few days here and there of contractions before labour real begins, but that once it does it doesn’t take very long. So I am expecting a few more days worth of helpful, but not labour, contractions and am glad I know about this now as the next day/night I feel like that I can just take some paracetamol and let it happen *knowing* that it almost definitely isn’t ‘it’. The other good news is that she’ll come to the birth herself unless I go into labour on Boxing Day! This really is wonderful news as she’s such a hands-off midwife and won’t press me to do anything, or even disturb me, if that’s what I want. Going for any old MW on the on-call rota could mean I get a hospital-based, bossy, hands-on midwife, which was what I was dreading. I can really relax now - will definitely be having lots of baths as baby’s head is causing me a lot of lower-bump pain. It’s been painful to walk all day today, and now I know why. I’m enjoying posting these updates, and I hope that I enjoy looking back on them some time, even if no one else reads them! As long as things don’t go too fast when I actually am in labour, I can quite see me jotting down little updates as things happen. I (my body) am feeling so ready though, I really don’t think I’ll reach my due date this time, and if I do then I should think I’ll be absolutely fed up and exhausted if it means belly pain for the next week!
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5:51 pm
Oh, I’m reading, I’m reading! Yes, I’d love to read along as you go… I just recently found out that we’re expecting a little bean (haven’t even *announced* it on my blog yet, so shhhhh! LOL ;))
So, I look forward to reading your birthing story…maybe it will inspire more bravery in me.
But I’d really like to have a homebirth this go around, hubby wants one too. I so believe in it, have a doula friend (who’s had 5 at home, her last two unassisted) who has a very hands-off midwifing friend… it just comes down to my being so chicken beyond that!
9:47 am
Ooh - congratulations! Homebirths are wonderful, but can’t really compare having never had a hospital birth. I also don’t really know how it all works on your side of the Atlantic but I believe it’s very different than over here in the UK where the government are actively encouraging homebirths (individual midwives are another matter entirely, though!), and where midwives lead your care unless you have any very serious pregnancy/labour complications whether or not you book for a home birth.