Midwife Visit: 38 Weeks

I still have a hard time believing that I'm still pregnant at 38 weeks, since I was SO sure I was going to give birth a few weeks ago. But in any case, thing are still good and going. The Beast has dropped more--last week I was 37.5 cm and today down to 36.5. The heart rate was still greatly variable and baby was super responsive. My blood pressure was higher than last week, which is good since it was almost too low last time she checked. I have a little swelling and pitting, but in my ankles and legs, not my feet. (Thank goodness, because that means I can walk, and also hopefully explains why my legs look suddenly enormous.) Overall, not too much has changed, other than baby dropping and things still looking good.

Cathy also reassured me about the Group B Strep. She has seen lots of women with this, but few to no complications in babies. She has me on a regimen of a nightly antimicrobial flush, which she said will most likely kill the bacteria, and this is something we can continue in labor. She also has antibiotics if we feel they are necessary, but because my Strep wasn't highly colonized (as in, it didn't show up in my urine as well), she feels pretty good. We'll just be watching baby for any signs of sickness in the early days so we can receive fast treatment just in case. That definitely made me feel better! Hopefully by the time I'm in labor, the nightly wash will have eradicated the infection anyway.

So, week 38 down...we'll see how many more weeks I have to go!