This week I am 37 weeks pregnant and now I know I should hopefully be able to give birth in the Midwife Led Unit at our local hospital, I have started putting together a birth plan. Although when pregnant with C I had ideas about what I wanted during labour and delivery, I had not got around to producing a birth plan before her early arrival at 35 weeks. In some ways this was probably a good thing as preterm labour would have meant the plan went out the window!
Those of you who read my previous blog post on Labour Problems will remember there were many elements with my labour with C that did not go exactly how I would have wanted due to her prematurity. A lot of the options available during a full term labour and delivery were not available to me.
Showing posts with label Birth Plan. Show all posts
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Monday, 4 November 2013
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
36 Weeks Pregnant - Uncharted Territory
This week I am 36 weeks pregnant. This is an especially important milestone for me as C arrived at 35 weeks and 5 days gestation. I have never made it to 36 weeks before. Although extemely relieved to be here (preterm labour is no fun), it did make last week a bit of an anticlimax as I couldn't help but wonder if this baby was going to make a similarly early appearance!
I am definately bigger this time around but do not have the same hip problems I had when pregnant with C. Aside from the increasing tiredness and generally imobility, I am feeling pretty good. Labour does not feel imminent... but then it didn't with C. I was enjoying a perfectly normal afternoon until my waters broke.
I am definately bigger this time around but do not have the same hip problems I had when pregnant with C. Aside from the increasing tiredness and generally imobility, I am feeling pretty good. Labour does not feel imminent... but then it didn't with C. I was enjoying a perfectly normal afternoon until my waters broke.
Monday, 22 July 2013
Labour Problems
All the talk of the Duchess of Cambridge's labour and delivery has got me thinking of my own impending delivery
Ok, so I might not be at the stage of putting together a birth plan yet but I am slightly concerned I have no idea how to go about this labour.
As many of you have read from my previous birth story, it did not go exactly as I had imagined. It has however given me plenty of idea of how I would not like to do my next labour. Unfortunately it has not given me many ideas of how I would like to do it.
Ok, so I might not be at the stage of putting together a birth plan yet but I am slightly concerned I have no idea how to go about this labour.
As many of you have read from my previous birth story, it did not go exactly as I had imagined. It has however given me plenty of idea of how I would not like to do my next labour. Unfortunately it has not given me many ideas of how I would like to do it.
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