Quick midwife update.

[rivka]

You know what's not a good idea, when you're damn near 37 weeks pregnant?

Falling hard on the ice on the way into the midwife's office, that's what. I seem to be okay, but I think it's going to be a tense 24 hours until we're absolutely 100% positive that it's not going to send me into labor or anything. We are under orders to call immediately if I notice anything whatsoever that seems funny.

Also, I landed on my right hip, which is the difficult one.

Also, thank goodness Michael and Alex came along to the appointment, or I have no idea how I would've gotten up again.

Fall and resultant shakiness notwithstanding, I managed to come up with a good blood pressure reading of 110/72. No sugar or protein problems. I've gained four pounds (!) since last week, which may partly be a factor of last week's visit being before lunch and this one being immediately after dinner. My uterus is measuring 40cm when I'm contracting and 39cm when I'm not contracting. (Why yes, I am contracting a lot.) I'm Group B Strep negative, yay. (That saves me from having to get antibiotics in labor.) My symptoms are as normal as an extremely normal thing. The baby's heartbeat sounds strong and beautiful.

Then I sent Michael and Alex out of the room and told Kathy about the feelings I had after the hospital tour. She is not the touchy-feeliest of midwives, but she was great. She gently told me that it was entirely appropriate and reasonable and expected to still be grieving and to have negative feelings triggered by my upcoming birth. She thinks that laboring women focus intensely on labor, and that I am unlikely to have significant problems with D&C memories in labor, but she is ready to remind me that I am there to birth a baby. Also, she is fairly certain that if I call when I first notice labor signs they will be able to snag me the room where Alex was born, which not only has positive memories associated with it but is huge and couldn't be more different from the rooms I was in when I miscarried. She's going to tell the other midwives how I'm feeling, which is good.

She also told me, firmly, that the universe intends for me to have this baby, that this is the baby who is meant to be. I'm not sure how I feel about that as a theological position, so I will choose to focus on the part where we are positive that I am going to have this baby.

Comments

[eeyorerin]

Oh dear. I hope that the fall was just a fall and there will be no repercussions. And I am glad you had Michael and Alex there!

I am glad that the midwife could think of things to do that might be helpful.

You are going to have this baby. Just hopefully not tomorrow. :)

[geminigirl]

37 weeks seems to be the time for excitement...that was when our kitchen exploded last year. I was fortunate-I had a couple of hours of good contractions, and then they stopped, but I was under the same instructions you were-"call if anything changes."

Naomi wasn't ready to come for another four and a half weeks. I hope that Niblet stays put until you're ready for his arrival.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Whoa, scary! I'm glad things seem to be OK though. Thank goodness for amniotic fluid and caring people :)

FWIW: My Mother was punched in the stomach at 7 months (and called a nigger lover) and I was OK and came at 42 weeks. I'm betting the niblet is OK too :)

N.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Yikes. My mother fell at the top of a hill of ice at seven months with my brother (dropped me, I slid down, have a little forehead scar) and broke her pelvis. She had to spend the next two months in the hospital and she and Rick both came home much later than usual. But things were fine then, and if you'd broken your pelvis, you'd probably have known.

[ckd]

Ow!

Thinking of you, Michael, Alex, and Niblet. Be well.

[zeldajean.livejournal.com]

eep!

My mom fell at around 8 months with my sister. It appeared that she fell face first and hit her stomach, but she said she hit with her hands and rolled to her hip, missing the full-on hit to the belly. My sister came, 3 days after her due date (the closest any of us got, and we were all late). That was 12 years ago.

From the sounds of things above, falling late-term isn't terribly abnormal (you are off balance, after all) and also isn't catastrophic.

Good luck!!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I don't really think falling on ice onto your right hip is a good idea any time, and especially not right now. Thanks be that you seem to be OK. Also, Yay for Kathy.

[laurarey.livejournal.com]

Having fallen myself about 2 weeks ago, I commiserate. Very scary stuff, as if there wasn't enough to worry about and such. Glad to hear that all seems ok.

[ailbhe]

Glad you appear to be ok so far. Long ago, Rob's Mormor slipped on ice while washing a milk-churn and finished her pregnancy with one arm in plaster. She did cycle out to the midwife to check she was ok, though...

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I know a woman who fell and broke her tailbone during pregnancy. Our midwives told her that she was likely to re-break it during delivery. I can't imagine.

[kate_nepveu]

Glad the fall seems not to have triggered labor, and hope nothing bad continues to happen.