38 weeks

The doctor was, ah, suprised to say the least that I made it for my 38week check up. When I walked in the consultation room he was like "eh?"

Did a quick internal check and I am a bit more dilated, and baby is moving down slightly (no figures given, and I never got around to ask after what happened next)

Then I get up on the bed as always for the tummy ultrasound..... get a look at TJ-baby's face, yaddih, yaddah, then doc moves across my tummy, and his face gets that screwed up "oh-oh" type look to it. He starts pushing the side of my belly like it is jelly on a plate to get it moving. More "hmmmms". He calls the 院長 in, and they get me to turn over. I can tell they are looking for the heartbeat. And they are having trouble. "Perhaps the baby is asleep, let's try to wake it up"....I get told to sit up, then lie down again on my side. They finally get a good signal on the heartbeat, and it sounds ok now. But they *think* that while I was in there, the baby started to squeeze either its own neck, or the umbilical cord. And that was interupting the heartbeat. I get put on the baby monitor for 30mins, but all seems well, so they assume it was just a freak of timing that it happened at that particular time.

Talk about scary.

The last few days I have been giving myself the old jelly-on-a-plate belly push every couple of hours if i can't feel any action. As it is, at this stage of pregnancy, I am NOT feeling much movement, which I put down to big baby in small space, and also being lower down. But now I am paranoid about it, so whenver I lie or sit down, and I don't get any baby kicks after a bit, I give TJ-baby the prod.

Apart from that drama, nothing else to report. No action, per say, except feeling a but crampy at times since last Friday. Several times I thought it might be the start of something, but no notable contractions at regular intervals to record. I have toned everything down though now, since I am half way through the week of J away, I figure if I can do nothing for the next few days and get through it will be worth it. So lots of lying down, napping, TV and not much else. Even sent K out on a big walk this morning with my parents and while I had niggling thoughts to do stuff while they were gone, I gave into my laziness and did NOTHING. While on one hand I feel like a lazy old cow, on the other I figure that if by doing nothing I even have a chance of holding off labour starting until J gets back, then it is my DUTY to do this! So I am going to wait until Sunday and then I will be running around doing all the things I have been thinking about doing for the last few days, lol.

Hanging on for 4 more days, at least......