Birth Story Series: My second birth - 2024

As I was coming up to 41 weeks, I had a hospital appointment one morning with one of my midwives, since at that point they like to do a quick ultrasound to check there’s still plenty of amniotic fluid and also do a CTG on the baby to check all is good. That ended up going for quite a bit longer than we expected, so Simo ended up leaving me at the hospital, going home to get his mum and M and get changed for soccer, then they came and picked me up and we made it to his soccer game just in time! It was a great game; they thought the other team was significantly stronger but Simo’s team ended up winning 3-0! I got to chat with the wife of one of Simo’s teammates who is a midwife, and M had a great time playing with their little girl who’s nearly 3. We got back home 5:30ish, had something to eat, got M to bed, got everything wound down … and then about 8pm I started to have lower back pain…