Back And Forth

We’re on a constant cycle of hospital visits right now as Suze’s blood pressure is a little high and they want to keep it monitored. She’s at week 37 now and feels great. The worry is that it may turn into preeclampsia but right now she’s not showing any other symptoms of that except for a slightly higher than normal BP. The monitoring process is pretty simple, she gets hooked to a machine that records the baby’s heartbeat, any contractions and takes 3 blood pressure readings over 30 minutes. She also has to press a button every time the baby moves.

They use a set of two microphones to record the baby’s heartbeat and that’s played over some loudspeakers which is both spooky and good to hear at the same time. The day centre they do all this is pretty busy during the day so the room is flooded with the wooly sounds of miniature hearts beating furiously.

The printout showed a very active baby which the mid wife was very happy with and also some slight contractions which means we’re ally nearly there.

We saw the doctor yesterday and she was pretty good, explaining that Suze’s BP wasn’t high enough to warrant either taking any medication or having an early inducement which was pretty reassuring. Another positive aspect is that we’re now fully acquainted with the hospital and when the time comes we’ll know where to go and what to expect.

It’s so very close now, probably 3 weeks at the most and we are still very excited