This morning I had my 36-week prentatal appointment and all is well. Steve came along for the ride so he could meet our doctor and I am glad he was there. Kicky Boots’ heartbeat is strong and she was squirming around so much that it was hard to maintain a good reading. And remember how I said I hadn’t gained any weight in the last two weeks? Well, I guess I gained two pounds LAST NIGHT because the doctor’s scale does not lie. Yes, I did eat two muffins in the evening that I probably didn’t need, but how is it fair that each muffin stuck to my thighs and weighed a pound? Life is so unfair. Owell, two pounds in two weeks is fine, and what’s recommended, but still…I know that those two pounds jumped on in the past 24 hours. Owell.
After the routine blood pressure checking, fundus measuring, and heartbeat hearing my doctor pulled out a swab and told me about the Group B Strep screening that they do on all mothers around 36 weeks. Yay. A swabbing. And Steve got to watch. It was brief but surprisingly painful (I know, I know, it will be nothing compared to labour).
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You’ve only just begun with the discomfort :)
But it will all be worth it in the end!
Are you talking about the carrot-pineapple muffins? Cause I made them and they are terrific… please don’t tell me they make you gain a pound EACH!!!
That swab sounds miserable. Throat swabs are bad enough for me.
Your baby is going to be born so soon!
Yeah, that swab is something that nobody tells you about. It just sort of happens and catches you off guard. yuck.
Ah yes…the swab. More uncomfortable and wierd than anything.
Glad to hear the checkup went well (aside from the q-tip up your you-know-what)
That swab is wimpy compared to having your membranes stripped! Ouch!
Glad everything’s going well. I am so excited about hearing how the birth goes.
That sucks that is was painful. That was something else I loved about our midwives. It is your choice if you want to swab and if you choose to then you get to swab yourself, so it wasn’t painful and awkward.
Hey how was meeting the doula? Or haven’t you met yet?
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