Complaints: round ligament pain, sciatic nerve

Weight gain/loss from last time: 1

Total Weight gain/loss: 1

Urinalysis:

• Leukocytes: neg
• Nitrate: neg
• Protein: neg
• Glucose: neg
  
• Blood: neg

Blood pressure: 120/70


HB: 140

I am feeling so much more mouvment and it is great… baby is very active at about 10 pm… or at least that it when I notice it…

Taken last week… so about 17 weeks…

Well, the 20 week mark is fast approaching and it is the time that I will be able to call the birthing center in Nicolet and see if I am able to see a midwife… however, over the last few months I have grown not only to accept that I might be going unassisted, but I it has become a goal and what I want the most.

I am still debating if I will call the birthing center, I no longer beleive that it is what is best for me. I no longer want any kind of intervention. I don’t need that support especially now that I know that the midwifes here in Quebec are truly “Medwifes”… If I do call, I would go into the first appointment and address at that moment that I will be having a homebirth and there is no way that I would go to the birthing center to give birth. Since they are too far for a homebirth to be concidered, that would leave me in the position to have a UC anyways… If they decide to make an exception and come here, then I would have them understand that I want an unhindered birth and they would not be allowed to do any kind of monitoring and will not be present for the actual birth… However, just the presence is enough to turn me off and make me uncomfortable… I WANT to be alone…

I know that this conversation would not go over well with a medwife… I don’t want to deal with anyone talking down to me because they don’t agree with/don’t understand what I need… I am feeling more and more that I don’t want to even try to see a midwife….

A part of me wants to go for a few prenatal appointments however so this is the factor that is making this decision a bit hard…

My journey started out with a choice being made for me because a sOB is never a choice IMO…. however, now not only do I feel comfortable wth my decision it has become my ultimate goal…

I need to have an unhindered and unassisted birth. I need to bring this child into the world into the safest and more comfortable atmosphere which is our own home…

x-posted in my blog

Complaints: nothing

Weight gain/loss from last time: -

Total Weight gain/loss: -

Urinalysis:

• Leukocytes: neg
• Nitrate: neg
• Protein: neg
• Glucose: neg
  
• Blood: neg

Blood pressure: 110/60


HB: 155

Feeling much more movement!

The babe is moving more and more now these last few days… for a few weeks now I have been feeling flutters but now I am feeling way more movement… it is still light but noticable…

This is my favorite part of pregnancy… feeling the babe move inside, feeling the life that growing inside me… it is when I start feeling the babe that the pregnancy becomes real to me… Hearing the heart is the first step… but actualy feeling the movement is just the best and just those movements excuse any of the discomforts that may come with pregnancy…

We can record everything about pregnancy (the heartbeat, take pictures etc)… all but the feeling of the babe move inside…