Midwifery & Irritability

I'm feeling really irritable today. I am so hungry all the time. I'm not sure it is because my stomach is unwell because of all the hormones...or whether I am actually hungry. I suppose I did only have 2 boiled eggs & a medium sized smoothie [ mango, pineapple, apple & granadilla ] this morning. Still can't believe how hungry I am. Hmm.... salad wrap. I think that's going to have to happen in the next half hour. It is 12.30 which is close enough to lunch.

I had a big scare last Friday - I had a tiny bit of pink spotting. Managed to get hold of Robyn's sister Gill who has her honors (or some huge qualification) in Midwifery. Funny word: midwifery. Anyhow...she said that I shouldn't worry about it too much. It went away and then it came back on Sunday but I decided not to worry about it.

Aline used this amazing midwife when she had her baby. I phoned her on Friday as well - to see where she is and what her schedule is like etc. She's between Cape Town and Durban at the moment because she's going to be moving to KZN eventually. The bummer is that she can't guarantee whether she will be in Cape Town at the time of our baby's birth and I certainly don't want to shift over to someone else at the last minute. Plus she's in town and I certainly don't want to drive all the way to town for meetings very often.

I did a bit of a search & I can't find any midwives in Kommetjie or Fish Hoek. I would have thought there would be plenty of midwives in Kommetjie. Bummer there aren't. Actually there probably are but they most likely get contacted through word of mouth or something without their details being online.

T'Neal's pediatrician's wife is also a midwife so I will try and get hold of her. She only has a cell phone and our cell phone reception is so bad here. I don't like phoning cell phones with the landline, but I'm just going to have to phone her.

I keep on getting bitten by bugs. I got bitten on Saturday by something that made my arm swell up huge. I'm stuck with StopItch cream as I'm not allowed to take antihistamines. I'm a big ball of itch & hunger. No wonder I'm irritable.

On the brightest side...our baby's heart will be beating by now.
That makes me so happy I get a little tearful...

The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute -- almost twice as fast as yours -- and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean.