9.8. Damn close.
Funny now to be hoping baby is late so that they can squeeze another blood test in. Feeling surprisingly calm and chilled about the whole thing (I imagine that’s because half the planet have been praying this week). I can feel myself daring to trust Abba’s timing and his care for me. It’s good to exercise those faith muscles, they’d been getting a bit flabby and I just have a real sense of his gentleness toward me.
Got a wee bit of a shock last night when things started kciking off and I had 2 hours of cramping and contraction-y pains. You really do forget between births what it is like. I just wasn’t ready and wasn’t that keen on the midwife on-call for me so obedient child that she is she burrowed back in and went quiet. Phew. That’s the bad thing about having a list of all the midwives and their on-call times, you want to pick and choose when you go into labour.
So at the mo I’m downgraded from Home birth to Domino care. It’s like a halfway house where you call the midwife when you are in labour and she comes out to your house and you can stay there until you are quite close to delivering then it’s into hospital to deliver. Secretly I’m hoping not to call the midwife too early and maybe find that we may not have enough time to get round there. Is that very naughty?
My bet is wed/thursday this week for the birth. We shall see….
