(So sorry, posted a week late. I wrote it and never hit publish.)
All went pretty well! For the first time I have had an appointment that was just fine with no lingering concerns or doubts.
I have gained a whopping 1.2 lbs – which isn’t terribly surprising. I am still having an awkward relationship with food… though that bread pudding bar from Great Harvest Bread Co. after the appt today helped me out… well sort of I guess. It helped me love food for a few minutes. But didn’t help me in eating the sandwich that arrived after I had munched my yummy bar. Oh well. Sandwich will keep for lunch tomorrow.
Per AB’s request I quizzed him on the tortuous cord (that Skadi had) and he said we just don’t know. Similar to the ultrasound tech told us that cord issues are just hard to diagnose before labor and delivery.
I also quizzed him about travel. I have a trip upcoming in January and I will be 30 weeks then. His thought was that I could go on that trip and then none after that. I am not positive I will go on that trip – funding issues may dictate that only one of us goes, despite the intention from the program manager that more of the team should attend. But I am perfectly fine being the person to bow out.
Once again, there was a bit of difficulty in finding the heartbeat – though this time I wasn’t worried as I could feel him squirming all over the place. The heartbeat was finally located very low down. I told Dr. M that both ultrasound techs of recent have commented on how low the baby is – his response was that means I need to start slowing things down, sitting down when I can. He expects I will go to term, but that it might not be a very comfortable last trimester with the baby as low as he is appearing.
My other two were high up in my ribs. This whole baby sitting low thing is new to me and based off what I have heard from friends, not a barrel of monkeys. Not like rib kicks are fun either, but I think I would take that over 7 lbs sitting direcly on and kicking my cervix.
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