41 Weeks Pregnant - when baby is posterior
My baby is posterior! What does that mean? Is it a problem? Should I be worried?
Posterior simply means baby has his or her back towards mum’s spine. It is entirely normal during pregnancy, even though a position with their spine towards mum’s belly is considered more ideal approaching birth. This is because an “anterior” baby has less rotation to do during labour…
40 Weeks Pregnant - the importance of positive affirmations and self-talk
It’s that time of pregnancy where baby could be born anytime... or we could still have a week or two to wait. These final days/weeks can be so tough mentally, and we need strategies to cope with them…
34 Weeks Pregnant - low platelets again!
Last week’s blood tests show my platelets have dropped off a bit again, which for Australian standards has technically put me back in the range of gestational thrombocytopaenia (very borderline still). Platelets dropping during pregnancy is physiologically normal for some women, and certainly seems to be my norm, since I know it happened with my first pregnancy too.
31 Weeks Pregnant - bonding with baby
For many of us, this past week has been a week of holiday and family time. It certainly has been for me and my family. We enjoyed a few days with some of the extended family, and are loving having a week for just our family at home right now, after a very full year. It’s important to spend time together, bonding as husband and wife, parents with children, siblings with siblings.
And it’s just as important to spend time bonding with baby!
29 Weeks Pregnant - is my baby too big to be born vaginally?
When I had my morphology ultrasound around 21 weeks, the sonographer commented that baby was measuring in the 96th percentile, and that my provider would probably want to schedule growth scans during third trimester to make sure baby wasn't getting too big. I just smiled and thanked her, but I knew that we would not be planning any growth scans based purely on this comment...
27 Weeks Pregnant - heading into the third trimester!
Well, that went quickly! Here we are heading into third trimester! I am so so grateful for how well I’ve been feeling this pregnancy. My energy levels have been so good, it’s really been amazing!
I’m also really glad I was able to get into a routine at 20 weeks with daily birth prep exercises, both mental and physical. Now in third trimester I have some changes to my birth prep routine.
24 Weeks Pregnant - finding balance and rhythms in life
It’s been a quiet week this week, just normal busy daily life with my husband and two little girls. There’s nothing much particularly coming up for me around pregnancy right now, though I am feeling baby move regularly and continuing with my near-daily practice of Spinning Babies exercises, breathing and “horse lips” exercises, and listening to positive birth affirmations and relaxation/visualisation audios. I didn’t have enough of these quiet weeks in my last pregnancy, so I am really enjoying it!
23 Weeks Pregnant - birth reflexes, aka, your body knows when to push!
I listen to The Great Birth Rebellion podcast regularly, and this week I listened to an episode I’d missed on birth reflexes. That was really fascinating, hearing the explanations and comparing with my experiences with my first two births.