Doctor: it's normal.
Lamia: My back is killing me. Belly is heavier and heavier. I'm having a hard time moving sometimes.
Doctor: Yes, that's normal at this stage.
Lamia: I get a lot of pain in the belly. It comes and goes but it's more and more painful.
Doctor: This is false labour. Your body is training for the big day. It's all normal and will increase as we get closer to the delivery date.
Conclusion of this visit:
- Everything is "normal". Tadpole is growing. He is now 3.1kg, quite a big jump vs. last week. Still some time to go as he will most likely be somewhere around 3.4-3.5kg as his parents at birth.
- Future mummy is fine as well... Let's say she is feeling all the right symptoms for that point of time of pregnancy. And make up is a huge savior when it comes to hide dark marks under the eyes.
- We've completed 37 weeks so tadpole is now considered at terms. He will stay in for at least another week, so the doctor said. Request from grandparents is that he stays inside another 2 weeks. Let's see what happens.
Net, all we have to do now is wait. Wait and some squatting for me to help tadpole going down. That's going to be fun.
PS: yesterday Raphael passed by and brought us all the things we ordered from Europe. The stroller is assembled and we've trained on opening and closing it. The car seat is ready too. Same here we've practiced to get it in and out the stroller. I guess we will gain speed as we practice more. Pampers and wipes are nicely stored under our changing table. We still need to figure out how to use the baby monitor. Apart from that and the bathtub, we have in theory all the minimum to get started.
Not saying that we are ready, but we are as good as we can get.
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