Not what i expected

Well after one of the worst nights sleep in this pregnancy so far and going most of the day on an hours sleep I feel awake enough to do some blogging.

I woke up this morning after only getting an hours sleep, bathed my little one and got ready to leave to get to the in laws, as I though I was having a growth scan today.

I get to the hospital and it turned it's not a growth scan I was booked in for, but to be hooked up to a fetal heart monitor. To say I was gutted is an understatement.

After waiting an hour to be seen we get in there and I explain to the midwife there what I thought today was about, she went to see if anything had been booked and it hadn't so she said that it might be a case of waiting to see what the consultant wants to do. She said that because baby is showing some signs of IUGR they may decided to do a few more fetal heart monitoring and then induce me at 36 weeks.

My bump was measuring 2 weeks behind today, blood pressure was normal, which is great. might help that I had a cup of water before going in. I was only on the monitor about 20 to 30 minutes and according to that I had 4 contractions.
I have been cramping on and off all day though. Now that I have taken some painkillers the cramps aren't to bad.

Before I left, the midwife said that if I get worried about his lack of movement then phone up as I am experiencing reduced movements quite a bit now, she even gave me the direct number to the day maternity unit so that I don't waste so much credit trying to get hold of someone if I did get concerned.

I feel silly having to phone up so much, but because she says he is starting to show signs of IUGR its best to get any worries checked.