Bumpkin: Weeks 36-42

Hello!

 

37+2

 

One word: whoops! After weeks and weeks of being religious with my updates I let the blog fall by the wayside (again!). It is now December and baby is not only here, but has turned eight weeks today! I'm finally starting to get myself into a bit of a routine (touch wood) and have been bitten by the old blogging bug again. My goal is to keep up with this regularly throughout 2016 so let's get a head start from today!

 

Although pregnancy seems like such a long time ago, I thought it would be fitting to finish off my pregnancy diary before starting on baby and parenting posts. Expect an introduction to our little munchkin swiftly after this post :)

 

38+6

 

So I left my updates at week 35 and to be honest, there weren't any major changes after that so I've lumped the rest of my pregnancy into one. At my 34 week appointment the midwife wasn't sure if baby was breech, and by week 37 they still weren't sure... cue a trip to the hospital for a scan but munchkin was in fact in the right position, although nowhere near engaged sadly! By week 39 I'd had a massive growth spurt and jumped over two centiles on the chart which resulted in yet another scan to see if I'd need to be induced sooner rather than later. After lots of discussion the hospital decided that baby was approximately 8lbs, and so early induction wasn't necessary.

 

39+5

 

And that was it for a further two and a half weeks apart from a failed induction at 41 weeks. I was finally taken in to be induced on Sunday 11th October at 41+6. After three prostin pessaries over an eighteen hour period there was still no sign of labour or baby although by this point I was feeling SO uncomfortable and exhausted and my Braxton Hicks had become really intense. Thankfully I was then examined by the head consultant on the Tuesday morning and he told me that he was reluctant to try a fourth pessary (which the midwives were pushing for) as I was already more than two weeks overdue and he wanted to do a Caesarean instead, which I was more than happy to go ahead with.

 

42+0

 

Overall I can honestly say that I loved my pregnancy, and although the birth wasn't what I had planned, I wouldn't change it for the world. I had a wonderful C-section experience, and wouldn't hesitate to do it again.