My I.V.F Journal

Midwife Appointment

Debbie was off sick so I had Ceri and a trainee. I had messed up my urine test so have to take another up to the birth centre. Had pot ready but forgot and peed in the loo lol.

Blood pressure was fine. I did measure large for 28 weeks though, it was 32cms, so she arranged another scan for me on Monday. She mentioned having too much amniotic fluid, hope theres no problems. She is also sending me for blood tests to check on my iron levels and for the glucose fasting test to check for gestational diabetes. If your BMI is above 25 you are at risk of that and also if its in the family, dads diabetic. Anyway Ceri said she would be ringing me with a date to go in.

Discussed hospital versus home birth a bit. The midwife says home births nowadays are no different then going to the birthing centre. They bring all the equiptment with them. She said if Im classed as low risk there should not be any problems giving birth at home. I read a long article on the andover birth centre web site, it seems they are promoting home births and that they feel hospital, unless you are high risk, is a bad idea. Ok not, bad idea but more stressful and not desirable, especially with all the illness around at the moment. Anyway she said I needed to discuss it more with Debbie when I see her at 31 weeks.

And another thing is that the birth centre may be opening up again at the end of January yay!!!

UPDATE

Midwife rang back, Iron bloodtest and GTT (Glucose) are on tuesday 8.30