July progress note

I'm playing around and trying to find new fun stuff to make my blog cooler :o) I've added the "slideshow" feature. If you want to see all those pictures bigger and be able to look at them at your own pace, you can view them in my snapfish group room. Please email me if you need the room code. Once you've entered the room once, you won't need the room code anymore.

Here's my pregnancy update...We’re moving along over here. At my appt last Friday my midwife did the GBS test and checked my cervix. At that point I was 2cm dilated with a short cervix and the boy is low in my pelvis. He was a little tilted so to try and get him in a better position and avoid back labor, I’ve been doing more pelvic rocks and lots of hanging out on my hands and knees and sometimes chest and knees. The chest and knees is nice because it brings him up and out of my pelvis a bit which relieves the pressure on my bladder some (at least until I sit up) LOL ;o) My next appt is tomorrow. I’m hoping for good news about the GBS test and see if there’s any more progression. However she may not do a cervical check since that’s more of a typical OB’s office thing and not so much a midwife/birth center thing. Oh yeah, almost forgot….he’s been measuring perfectly the whole PG until last week…..instead of measuring at 36 weeks like he should have, he measured 37 weeks. We’ll see what tomorrow brings…..

I do have contractions consistently every day now. I still get Braxton hicks mostly but throughout the day I’ll also get the painful, cramping contractions that could be changing my cervix. They come almost like clockwork in the middle of the night. However, they are all still very irregular in general and never stay longer then 1-2 hours at a time.