After the stress of the last few days, since our first and disappointing midwife appointment, we got into the system the right way today. After a couple of failed attempts to interact with the system directly, we got the number of the community midwife team. This turned out to be in the shape of a […]
Energy: Debs is doing great. She’s a lot more energetic now that she’s in the second trimester. The uncharacteristic afternoon naps have passed (mostly ;-)) with generally higher energy levels. The bump is progressing nicely too. It’s really pretty noticeable now, but still quite well hidden under a baggy top. If you’re superstitious about the
We met our midwife today, well we didn’t actually as she was off, but we did meet her stand in from another practice and a charming trainee. I felt the meeting went very well on the whole. Much of the time was taken up with general chit chat, taking histories, bloods etc. and giving us
Our first midwife appointment tomorrow. The way it works over here, the midwife is the primary care manager for a pregnancy. You see your GP first, who passes all the details to the midwife team. The next step is the scan, followed by your first midwife consultation, and that’s tomorrow. It’s another step forward and
Well, today was the BIG DayTM for the three of us. We hopped the 22, along the West Approach, Princes’ Street and down Leith Walk. Then a short walk to the Leith Community Treatment Centre for the dating ultrasound scan and our first encounter with the youngun. Half an hour later saw the missus and
I guess the title says it all really. As of now, we are approximately 12 weeks pregnant; we won’t know exactly until we get our first (dating) scan which is on the 15th of the month. So that was the motivation for putting up the blog, a place where we can both easily keep all