Fit to Fly and Glucose test day
Had an early visit to the Doc yesterday to get my fit to fly letter. All I needed was how many weeks on I (26/40) and my due date. Sorted! Didn’t realise they cost though, a shocking £15 but lucky my doctor is nice and let it slide. Hopefully she will do the same in less than 3weeks time when we have to fly home! Spoke to her about my cold, she was happy it was moving and said all I can do is take paracetamol but I want to avoid that. Otherwise she was happy I was trying to increase my fluids, juice and lemon honey drinks.
Had to fast today from 11.30am until my Glucose bloods were taken at 2pm. Thought it would be hard but I was okay, besides the fact I was feeling off all day yesterday and was majorly thirsty but I wasn’t even allowed to drink water. Drank my Lucozade at 1.10 and then wandered down in the sunshine (yes .. sunshine in London) to the hospital. Got there early and had to wait until they opened up again after their lunchbreak and during that time I just started to feel worse, so I was not looking forward to the Glucose and Iron blood test. I have no problem with them but with the way I was feeling I just wasn’t up to it. Finally got in there and my bloods were taken, my midwife talked to me the whole time, no doubt because I told her I was feeling rough. But I got through then okay and then got my belly measured, the midwife was happy with the growth progress and the best bit is I got to listen to my baby’s heartbeat!! YAY, love that bit, perfect little heartbeat she said. Music to my ears!!
So all was good, left the hospital and got rushed home because Pete phoned and said my folks were entering London, earlier than planned. But he is a wonderful man and left work early to pick them up on his way home for me. He is the bestest!! So while he brought them home I decided to do my bikini wax for our holiday. It is crazy the changes that happen to your body while pregnant, first it is hard to wax an area that is hard to see because of the growing buddah belly and second there really is alot more blood pumping through my body, especially down in that region. Crazy!
Anyhow, we had a nice relaxing evening. Flicka was pretty quiet but my dad felt a little bit of movement, I will have to make sure he gets a good kicking in Tuscany. He did have a wee play when we were getting ready for bed, I really do wonder what he gets up to in there!! So kool.
