Monday: consultant appointment

After a little bit of a stressful weekend with more pains on Sunday, we called the hospital. The midwife phoned baack to let us know that we had a consultants appointment that afternoon and also, that she couldn't find huw's blood results which did make me giggle. Huw turned White at the thought of another needle lol.
We got to hospital in the afternoon, the waiting room was pretty busy and we knew that we'd be in for a bit of a wait as we were being squeezed in. Keeley the midwife called me in pretty quickly to do my fortnightly bloods, my Titre levels haven't changed which is good, and she seems to think that this late on in the pregnancy, they probably won't. she got the needles ready, and for the first time I felt anxious and tbh it really hurt. Keeley said that they'd had a nw batch of needles and that all the mothers had been complaining for a week, apparently the actual needle was thicker. She then had to tell me that as they'd taken blood from the same vein so many times, that the vein had practically collapsed and was no good - hope it's not a permanent thing! So then I had to go through the same process with the other arm. It hurt. Keeley had managed to get hold of hue's bloods which revealed he too has anti c!! So for now I am blaming him for all the blood tests lol.
Back to the stuffy, cramped waiting room whilst we waited to see the consultant. An hour or so later, we were called in.the consultant was very nice and seemed impressed by my slightly anal practice of writing down every pain on my phone. The consultant decided to scan me to check on the baby. Boo is fine, she's a couple of days bigger than hops suggested but bang on for my dates. Baby seems to be a little like her dad, her belly is bigger than the rest of her lol. Consultant then measured the fluid around the baby, and checked where the placenta was.
He then decided he wanted to do a 'cervical examinstion' nnnnnnooooooooooooooo!!! Not the most pleasant experience but confirmed that I was not in slow labour. It did however cause a lot of pain that night.
The consultant then asked what I did for a living. he very quickly decided that the stress of my job had caused the pain and bleeding and that I should finish. Was advised feet up for the week at least. However, I have 8 weeks left which seems a little bit early, and only three weeks left before i take maternity leave, and I need to ensure my a level classes are sorted and upti date with everything before I leave them. I'm feeling much better as the week
progresses so will see how I feel next week.