Today marks 35 weeks and 6 days. One more week and XXM will be safely full term and ready to come to this world. Hopefully XXM can wait for one more week...the crampy feelings in G's lower abdomen today seem to speak otherwise...
In the mean time, G is still getting frequent Braxton Hicks despite the medications and almost 2 weeks of HL to rest at home. Although the frequency has now reduced to about 3-4 per hour (and on a good day, only 1-2 per hour for about half a day), G is starting to feel more and more pressure downwards with each contraction. The sensation is quite scary, at times, it even feels like something is going to tear. Going to the toilet is now a stressful event as G keeps having the fear of seeing blood or that the water will break when she exerts...and going to toilet to pee is also a very frequent even, especially with XXM's head now almost fully engaged in G's pelvis, every little movement XXM makes is squeezing on G's bladder. Toilet paper runs out way too fast!
G 'accidentally' discovered that NUH offers a special service called EMMa Care - Enhanced Midwife Maternity Care. Though a little pricey, with a midwife following through the pregnancy (whatever is left of it anyway), the birth as well as 2 months post-delivery, G hopes that the midwife can provide the support she (and J) needs so that G can have the natural (and maybe even water) birth she wanted from the start. G thinks that J is secretly very relieved to have 'a trained person' there to help...at least now there is one more person for G to aim the drip stand at...
At home, G is fighting the natural instinct to clean and pack (nesting instinct)...but she is not winning the fight, at least not for the weekend that passed. The wardrobe is cleaned and packed, and baby stuff is now more organized in the shelving area. However, G will have to give up any form of cleaning/packing soon. Back aches and pelvic pain has been plaguing her, causing many nights of poor sleep and movement so slow, she takes almost double to the time to do anything physical.
At the same time, J is fighting off a bad bout of tonsillitis and a rash of unknown cause. At least his throat is now less sore, rash is less itchy and he is finally able to help out more...
All in all, it has been a rather eventful time since the last blog entry. And by the next entry, perhaps XXM will finally have a gender...and a proper name
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