38 Week Appointment

Today was our 38 week appointment. The midwifery student did our appointment today instead of one of the midwives. Which was fine, but she was concerned about my blood pressure, despite the fact that it was right in line with, and in fact on the low side of, what it's been THE ENTIRE PREGNANCY! Seriously, if it's lower at 38 weeks than it was at 16 weeks, and is essentially the SAME at 38 weeks as it was at our first appointment, I'm thinking we're doing ok. She also was very concerned about the swelling in my feet which is so much less than it was my last pregnancy (much EARLIER in my last pregnancy) that it doesn't concern me. So anyway . . . she called in the midwife I haven't seen since relatively early in the pregnancy (it's been months) to double check the swelling, I guess, and she decided I need to do a 24 hour urine test. Which means I have to collect all my pee for a 24 hr period & take it in to my next appointment & they'll send it, and blood that they draw at that appointment to the lab. I'm thinking she pretty much is doing this as a "cover our butt" thing &/or to be conservative in her teaching of the student, because it strikes me that if she was REALLY concerned, at 38 weeks, she'd want to get the results back ASAP. As it is, I'm to do the test next Monday & take it w/ me to Tuesday's appointment. Which means I'll essentially be 40 weeks before they even get the results back. But whatever . . .

Does make me hope baby comes before Monday, just to save me the hassle of collecting urine for an entire day (must be kept cold too, so, since it's not practical to keep it in the fridge, I'll have to keep it in a bowl of ice in the bathroom, lovely . . . at least my kids are old enough I don't have to worry about them playing in it or something LOL.

So, other then that, all is well, still measuring abit ahead, she measured me at 40cm, which is in line w/ the 39 cm I was last week. I did notice that it seemed like she started the measurement significantly lower than it has been, so not sure if she just measured different because she's a different person, or if that means the baby has dropped significantly lower/I'm effaced.

Thinking if the weather's nice tomorrow I may take the girls "exploring" through our woods. Was trying to figure out today, how to go for a walk (to encourage labor, to avoid the pee thing LOL) when everything around us is hills & that's abit more strenuous than I'm up for right now, and it occurred to me that the path through the woods that the girls like to "explore" with my mom is relatively flat. So we shall see . . .