Update - 37.2 weeks

Well, just had the midwife appointment to check everything out, we'll be having one every week now until the big day! All is well, weight, heartbeat, blood pressure, hemoglobin, proteins - attitude...it's all good. Feeling very tired most of the time, although pretty good today. Trying to keep busy and not really knowing where the time is going, but it goes by so fast, it's 6pm before I know it and I wonder what I've been doing all day. In any case, baby is still (happily) head down, if still a little transverse posterior and I am continuing to do all (okay, most of) the homework. Today we had our examination and I am 1 centimetre dilated, and we had the little 'stretch and sweep', which I can say was even less pleasurable than the perineal massage, but a necessary evil I suppose. The important thing is that Elika was able to find out what she needed to find out and we can see where we are along - still likely a ways to go, but it has begun! It was interesting though, during the exam to work with my yogic breathing and discover that it was more difficult than I expected, the breaths were much more curtailed in discomfort, although still so valuable, I'm so glad to have been working on it all this time. Baby was less than pleased to have someone poking them in the head and they kicked vigourously during and after in protest. Ah, my little fighter, already giving their opinions on the misfortunes of life...