37 week appointment

Had another appointment today, and am happy to say that I FINALLY measure 37 weeks, right on. Carole said I must have popped recently since I was measuring small before and the baby is a good size now. I sure do feel like I've gotten bigger lately! Carole also said to make sure we have a shower curtain available! She thinks this birth will be fast, and we might not make it to the hospital, so we should have a shower curtain to birth on to contain the mess since I said I don't want to clean anything up! Haha. I think that freaked Josh out a little when I told him.

My BP is nice and low (90/50...almost time for a bolus!), weight is in the low 140s, and everything else is perfect as well. We went over birth wishes and my expectations (YES to Vitamin K, immediate skin-to-skin, delayed assessment, and to us discovering the baby's sex ourselves, NO to erythromycin, Oxytocin, bathing the baby, induction or augmentation, restrictions on eating/drinking, position/mobility restriction, continuous fetal monitoring, episiotomy, directed pushing, early cord clamping, baby going anywhere without me or Josh, staying more than 4 hours afterwards, any oral supplementation for baby, or IVs for me). As midwives, the team is very hand-off anyway, and they automatically follow all of the above, but it was good to go over things to make sure we're all on the same page. I'm SUPER SUPER excited for the big day (or night)!

Now it's just a matter of time. We joked that next week, ideally the 24th, would be most convenient for both of us, so that's the goal, although I secretly still look forward to every night being woken up by contractions (chances are that labour will start at night, as it does for most mammals). I got my tooth extracted yesterday, so that's crossed off my list of things to do before the baby comes, and we're all settled and ready, so come on out baby! Incidentally, my next appointment is the 24th at 9:30am, and Carole joked that we might not even make it to that one!