week 38 part 2

i thought i'll write this other part separately since it's a totally different subject

we had an appointment yesterday at the hospital. usually our checkups are really quick especially with the midwife. usually we will reach around 10 mins earlier and would wait for about 5 mins then we'll get called in. but nope, yesterday we waited around half an hour till we got called. the waiting room was pretty full. guess this is the time for students to their placements in a hospital because there were loads of students there, even one who attended to me.

did the usual routines of measuring my belly - 38 inches/cm (i don't know actually), checking blood pressure (normal), prodding around my belly to see where baby is at (head is very low down, means anytime now), and checking baby's heartbeat. 

normally, baby's heart rate will be around 140-155. and the midwives always say that he's a happy boy. this time however, he went up to 170-180 which didn't really concerned the midwife too much but she sent me to pregnancy daycare to check on the baby further. i'll talk about pregnancy daycare later. so anyway, everything else seems good and all. so off we went on our way. 

so i've always passed by pregnancy daycare because it's just the other end of the clinic. i always thought it was for pregnant women to send their kids in there to be taken care of while the mum's get the check up. but apparently not the case. it's literally to take care of the mum's. those who needs extra attention during their pregnancy or if they have a complicated pregnancy. 

when we went there, they told us it will just be a moment. we went there at around 12.50pm. we waited an hour for our turn. they could've told us that and sent us to grab lunch or something right? i was so so hungry!!! so tired of waiting

was directed to a bed, got strapped in with 2 round things on my belly. one to capture baby's heart rate and the other to check for fluid in my belly or something. he moved a lot during that time and his heart rate went from 138-182 all within the 10-15 mins i was lying there. wonder what made his heart rate go up so high. but i realize that every time he moved, his heart rate would go up till 170-180. maybe that's why. i don't know. anyway the midwife came back in to check and she said the graph shows that he's calming down. so nothing to worried about i guess. but yesterday i did notice that he moved a lot more than normal. wonder why

oh yeah, when we were monitoring him, he was doing big moves and also had a small round of hiccups haha so cute find it funny when he has hiccups

also, i've been doing the squatting exercises that ginie recommended. hopefully my labor will be quick, smooth, and a breeze because i don't plan to have any medicated pain relief. i wanna try to go all natural. prayerfully everything goes according to what i want. i don't think i'll write any birth plan. seems ridiculous