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Home › Diaries › Eloise › November 20, 1999

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November 20, 1999

39 weeks.

Had a hospital appointment today and JK came with me, for the first time. Everything is looking good – blood pressure okay, the belly has grown one centimetre, the bubba’s head is engaged and fixed, although it still has a little further to move down -- but the midwife said that might not happen till I’m in labour.

Yesterday I had a few pretty intense Braxton Hicks contractions – which is unusual for me, I haven’t had too many -- and I feel an awkward pressure in the groin area – baby’s head moving down I guess – and I’ve had the odd crampy dragging feeling (like period pain). So my midwife said to me that maybe something is beginning to happen!!!!!!!!!!

JK just found out he has to fly to Canberra for one day next week (work reasons), which is a little bit scary. What if I go into labour while he’s away? It’d take him at least three hours to make it home – assuming he could get on a flight – and I absolutely deplore the thought that he could possibly, conceivably miss the birth. Wouldn’t that be the worst? But, fingers crossed, I daresay fate won’t be that mean to us. If it is I’ll have some rather loud complaining to do.

Oh, and I’ve finally started having lots of dreams. Mind you they’re pretty hum-drum. I keep dreaming of pregnant women (old school-friends I haven’t seen for years – people like that), and in my dreams I am jealous that they are pregnant and I'm not!! Last night I dreamed of breastfeeding the baby – in the dream the midwives were worried I would have difficulty because my breasts were so large, dangling like huge melons, and the baby couldn’t latch on without the danger of suffocation! (Urghh! That one tapped one of my deepest, darkest fears! I am secretly worried about the monstrous size of my F-cup boobs!) But in the dream the baby did eventually feed and it was the strangest feeling!!

Anyway, nothing else to tell. Just keeping you all updated on every little twinge and development. It’s one of my perverse pleasures at this stage in proceedings.

Enjoy the day,

Eloise



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