Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I'm really good at this, evidently.

Yesterday at our midwife appointment, Paula showed us how we could feel LBH's head, which is in delivery position already. She said LBH should stay there for the duration of my pregnancy - that once babies arrange themselves like (especially this far along) that it's rare for them to be able to move around enough to put themselves in another position less conducive to an easy birth.

When Paula came into the room, Jen had already taken my vitals, so all Paula had to do was check my chart to see how things were going. Her response: "Wow. You're just perfect!" She said that she's very happy with the way everything is going. My weight gain is just where it should be, my heart rate is excellent, my blood pressure is still low (Jen said that the two times she's taken my blood pressure she'd thought that she had missed it - but then there it was, just lower than where she usually finds it on people) and I'm not having any major problems or difficulties - I'm sleeping fine, my heartburn is still super mild (and has actually been less of a problem lately), I'm not having much sciatic pain (and that has also lessened lately) and I haven't had any problem with headaches. So I've determined that I'm just lucky enough through genetics or whatever to be good at this pregnancy thing - because I'm really not trying to be good at it. I mean, I think it's great and I love that I am this lucky, and I hoped for this much, but it sure isn't something I planned.

Also, yesterday's appointment was my glucose test, so I had my blood drawn for that as well as to test my iron again. Last time, my iron was low-of-normal, so since then I've been trying to consume more iron. I'm hoping that my iron is OK with this test. My mom is pretty worried about my iron levels being low, but I have no symptoms of having low iron, so I remain unconcerned. I guess the test will tell.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Way to go! This bode's well for a super delivery. We are getting really anxious for the big day. Oma