Today we had our first Midwife appointment. Her name is Pam and she seems really nice. Most of this appointment was filling in paper work and giving blood samples! I had to give some blood to test my Thyroid just before the appointment with the midwife; needless to say this went far from smoothly. One arm refused to give any blood and the other thankfully did. I did ask the nurse if the midwife would need any further blood tests but she did not know and did not seem inclined to even ask the midwife! This meant that when Pam needed to take some blood, she had to go to the same vein again. This left my arm rather bruised and damaged! Never mind, been through worse with IVF. It is all worth it. Obviously this was not the only incident that happened, after all I was involved! I had to produce a urine specimen in a really narrow container, not sure why they cannot use a container that is short and fat rather than thin and tall, which is obviously not the easiest thing to do. Needless to say, I kept missing and as I tried to adjust the container I dropped it into the water closet. I did not have much choice but to dry and try to reuse the container. Let’s hope that nothing nasty results in the tests, or I may have to embarrass myself with the true explanation of what happened!

We were able to hear the baby using the midwife’s Doppler. It was a change to our looking for the baby. Apparently, when we lose the baby’s sound, it is because the baby keeps moving. We do have a very energetic little one who seems to always be moving. She said that I would be feeling the baby shortly, and when I told her that I thought that I have been feeling the baby move for a while and described the feeling, she agreed with me that it was the baby. I have a feeling I am going to have a very naughty hyper little baby, Bless the Baby’s Little Heart!

Pam explained that my uterus is currently about an inch under my belly button. I cannot believe how big the baby already is. Mind you, I should have realised as none of my clothes fit, not even the clothes I used to wear before I lost weight! I am rapidly becoming more dependant on maternity clothes and seem to show more each day. This must be the first time that I am glad to look BIG! Having said that, I was also assured that my weight gain so far is good. So over all, I think we are doing well.