Our Day by Design

...our daughter Eden Sophia Born on 12th February 2015, at 10.26am & weighing 6lb 14oz. My planned section went really well and it was completely different from my emergency section with Holden. It was booked for my due date, exactly at 40 weeks. We only had to stay in the hospital for two nights and we've now been at home for a week. We are getting used to our gorgeous new arrival and being a family of four.

I am currently 39+1 weeks {in my 40th week}, and the baby is still the size of a watermelon! I had a scan this morning and thankfully, everything was ok. The baby is fine, there wasn't a lot of fluid but they seemed happy there was just enough. She is literally just using all the space, which is why I can feel / see her move all the time. The radiographer wasn't surprised the same thing had happened with Holden, and thought that it was probably just how I carried babies at the end. After I returned home, I got a call from the se ction coordinator in our area, wanting to confirm my section date since my s can had been fine. I have now been moved to a different hospital, which is in Livingston, slightly further away from us, but it's generally quieter and I shouldn't get moved again. I was given the option of the same date we'd arranged last week or the other slot three days earlier but we opted to keep it as it was, as it gives her a bit more time to grow, ...

I am currently 38+4 weeks {in my 39th week}, and the baby is the size of a watermelon! Since baby reached full term at 37 weeks, she could technically arrive any time. My bump hasn't really grown much in the last few weeks, but she has moved down a bit. I saw the midwife again on Friday 30th, when I was 38 weeks. It wasn't my usual midwife again but the same one I saw last time. I had to take Holden with me but they have some toys and books to amuse toddlers which is good. My mum had said the day before that she didn't think I had grown much since my last appointment. When the midwife measured me, at first she thought I was around 35 or 36, which would have been ok at this stage. However, when she checked again another couple of times, she thought that I was maybe only 34.5 or 34, which would actually be smaller than I was 3 weeks ago. When I said that I had measured small at my last appointment with Holden and a scan had shown reduced fluid, she decided that ...