Meeting the Midwife

I met with my midwife yesterday at the hospital. She is a very nice, very talkative, British lady. One of my friends here also used her, so at least I know someone with some experience. She measured my belly and I measured at 26, and I am 25 weeks this week so it is pretty close. I heard his heartbeat on the doppler and everything sounded great. She was also just able to feel around my belly and tell me which way he was laying. Right now his head is down in the lower left area, butt up, and then limbs across to my right side, which is where I am feeling most of the kicks. Last night he was kicking pretty good and Craig finally got to see it on the outside, it was awesome.

She examined me in the delivery room which is actually a lot nicer than I expected, but of course probably doesn't look as good as the ones at home. I am meeting with an OB here in a few weeks since he is the one that backs up the midwife in case of any complications. So I will have both a midwife and OB for delivery which makes me feel pretty good about having the baby in a foreign country. The good thing about the private hospital is that it isn't really crowded. Almost everyone here gives birth at the public hospital and sometimes they do not even have enough beds for every lady. Some friends told me of a story that a lady they knew gave birth at the public hospital in the hallway while sitting in a chair, and she had no problem with it! Luckily, at the private hospital, they do have beds.

While I was at my appointment I also got the glucose screening test. I had to drink a whole glass of sugar water, really sweet, and not that great, but I found out I am in the clear, no gestational diabetes. So that is great news.

Everything is going pretty good. The only thing about being pregnant right now that is bothering me is I am always really hot. Shavon, my midwife, who has been here a long time said she thinks this is the hottest August she can remember. I know it is not near as hot here as it is in Texas, but we do not have a/c at the house and a ceiling fan and stand up fan can only do so much to cool you off. I am ready for it to start getting cooler again here. Once hurricane season is done it should be nice. When there are storms out in the Atlantic, the storms take all of our wind and it is just dead calm and hot.