Well, with those two cancelations removing much of what I imagined I was going to talk about, I'm going to jump ahead to Friday and K___'s appointment with the midwife.
I was on a course that required me to go out to the National Archives at Kew for a couple of presentations and then a tour of the archive itself. We were taken up into a document warehouse with metal shelves of Britain's boxed history streching in every direction. We were shown the legal advice that the foreign secretary had requested in order to start the Second World War complete with the handwritten addition 'I suppose we shall have to tell the French'. This is all very interesting, but not very baby-related, so let's move on...
Our afternoon session was in central London, so we needed to board a coach for a fifty minute journey. Once in my seat, I tried K___'s mobile. It went to answerphone. I tried home for a bit, but dropped the call before the answer machine there picked up and tried my parent's house instead. A couple of words with my dad revealed K___ was indeed there after her appointment.
Essentially the appointment was the same as usual, but with the added addition that we now get to know which way the baby is facing. The last time K___ went, the baby was ROA, which is okay but not ideal, this time she's LOL - no, not that one, nor is she in the ROFLMAO positition - which is pretty good.
The ideal way for a baby to be lying is head down (fairly obviously), with the back forward and lying to the left - the left because people's insides are no symetrical and there's more room for the baby on the left. This position is called LOA which stands for Left Occipito Anterior (Occipito Anterior means that the baby's head has its back to the mother's stomach). LOL is Left Occipito Lateral which means the baby is lying on her mother's left side, head down, with her back facing K___'s side.
Other than that, everything is good. Glucose levels are fine, urine sample is fine.
K___ did ask whether there was any way of knowing how big a baby might be, but D____, the midwife, said that there wasn't really. They tend not to tell people as they find that it's not helpful - there's not a lot you can do about it, and some people get stressed. It was also mentioned at our NCT classes (not by me or K___) and R___ remarked that any figure a midwife might come up with comes with a caveat of plus or minus two pounds either way. When that means a weight between seven and eleven lbs, it rapidly becomes clear what a meaningless guess that might be.
I was on a course that required me to go out to the National Archives at Kew for a couple of presentations and then a tour of the archive itself. We were taken up into a document warehouse with metal shelves of Britain's boxed history streching in every direction. We were shown the legal advice that the foreign secretary had requested in order to start the Second World War complete with the handwritten addition 'I suppose we shall have to tell the French'. This is all very interesting, but not very baby-related, so let's move on...
Our afternoon session was in central London, so we needed to board a coach for a fifty minute journey. Once in my seat, I tried K___'s mobile. It went to answerphone. I tried home for a bit, but dropped the call before the answer machine there picked up and tried my parent's house instead. A couple of words with my dad revealed K___ was indeed there after her appointment.
Essentially the appointment was the same as usual, but with the added addition that we now get to know which way the baby is facing. The last time K___ went, the baby was ROA, which is okay but not ideal, this time she's LOL - no, not that one, nor is she in the ROFLMAO positition - which is pretty good.
The ideal way for a baby to be lying is head down (fairly obviously), with the back forward and lying to the left - the left because people's insides are no symetrical and there's more room for the baby on the left. This position is called LOA which stands for Left Occipito Anterior (Occipito Anterior means that the baby's head has its back to the mother's stomach). LOL is Left Occipito Lateral which means the baby is lying on her mother's left side, head down, with her back facing K___'s side.
Other than that, everything is good. Glucose levels are fine, urine sample is fine.
K___ did ask whether there was any way of knowing how big a baby might be, but D____, the midwife, said that there wasn't really. They tend not to tell people as they find that it's not helpful - there's not a lot you can do about it, and some people get stressed. It was also mentioned at our NCT classes (not by me or K___) and R___ remarked that any figure a midwife might come up with comes with a caveat of plus or minus two pounds either way. When that means a weight between seven and eleven lbs, it rapidly becomes clear what a meaningless guess that might be.
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