Midwife appointment, and glue

[ailbhe]

I love my midwife with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. She came today, had tea, did my notes, socialised and chatted like mad, and took my blood pressure (100/60 or thereabouts). Then we listened to the baby's heart - first we heard the placenta, which is very loud and busy - but the baby sounded like, of all things, a windfarm.

We're not going to bother with the 16 week blood test for AFP to check for spina bifida, because it would show up on the ultrasound anyway, and there's no reason to know 4 weeks earlier. So I'll probably get all my other bloods done when I'm in hospital for the 20-week scan.

She's very chatty. So am I, when I meet the right person. She also fixed Linnea's portable easel, which I broke. It needed brute force in a space too large to anything but finger-pressure. My fingers are no good at brute force. So I offered to babysit her boys for an hour this afternoon while she goes to participate in some research up at the university. It's wine-tasting research, so most important that she gets to go. She's going to see if they boys' father is around, but he might be stuck in meetings. So we don't know yet if we're going to be invaded by great big lollopping boys.

Linnea lay down to have her tummy listened to, but didn't like it. Oh, and she and I spent some time this morning glueing pictures to coloured paper and hanging the mounted artwork on the walls. We have three new ones up now. She likes glue.

Lunch was leftover bolognese sauce on toast. It was fab.

AND her new shoes actually fit and don't leave red marks anywhere. She even wore them in the garden while I hung up the laundry, so we can't take them back now. Hurrah!

Comments

[k425.livejournal.com]

What glue do you use? We've got some bits for doing collages but the glue is in a tiny tube like evostick but smaller. And YB hasn't got the hang of prittsticks at all.

[ailbhe]

Early Learning Centre sells pots of glue and little plastic glue-spreaders. But we actually used No Brand prittstick. The runnt glue is better for glitter and stuff.

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

yay for good midwives! Hope very much that you get good continuity with this midwife you like and trust.

It's being obvious from what I'm going through right now that it makes so much difference to get continuity and even more to get on with them.

[ailbhe]

It's the same midwife I had last time, and this time she's going to try to be available for the birth - easier to plan for than last time because of the section. I *insisted* on being given the same midwife as before, because I got on with her really well and she saw all the damage first hand.

She's shocked at some of what I'm telling her about the birth though. I didn't tell her everything last time.

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

I guess that especially in your position it is _so_ important to have someone you trust who is going to be there for you. And that explaining will be so much easier because you know she already knows part of what happened - I know that I'm finding it easier to talk about what's going on currently with people who know the background rather than having to explain all of that all over again.

many thoughts/good vibes/prayers coming your way for things to go well.

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

K loves regular school glue, either applied with a paint brush or straight from the bottle. She also loves glitter sprinkled on the glue. She's a little weirded out about how the glue dries on her fingers and then looks like she's turning into a reptile shedding her skin.

[clare-s.livejournal.com]

Just fantastic news that you have got the mw you wanted. I know its been on your mind.... so chuffed on your behalf

[lalajia.livejournal.com]

What does Linnea think about the baby? Does she understand what it's all about yet, or does she think the tummy-listening is some game? :)