My good report of the day

I had a prenatal with my midwife today and everything is just peachy!

My fundus is measuring 27 weeks, about 3 weeks ahead of where I actually am. She said I had plenty of good fluid and Jack had a wonderfully reactive heartbeat. I asked her to check his position, just out of curiosity, and he is in a funky breech position with his butt by my right hip and his head underneath my left ribs. She did say his head is tucked under, which is very good. I told her that occasionally I feel like he's in my ribs on the right side and she bets that he's flipping transverse to breech with his head there.

Words cannot express how much I love having a midwife. She comes to my house for every prenatal and we chat for about 30 minutes before even getting into the pregnancy stuff. Today, when she checked Jack's position, Freckles was sitting on her lap the whole time. You just don't get that service with a doctor. :-)

I mentioned to her that I was having trouble staying asleep once I fell asleep, either because my hips hurt or because I simply can't fall back to sleep after getting up to potty. She gave me some yoga moves to help loosen my hips and said that should help the first half of the night at least. She also encouraged me to go out and be busy in the hours before dinner. This will help me be more physically tired at bedtime so that I can sleep harder and fall back to sleep more easily. I told her I'd been toying with the idea of joining a gym and she said that sounded like a good idea. So that is definitely on my agenda for next week: call some gyms. I need to get some exercise anyway.