Hi all.

Well we’re now in to week 24 which means a visit to the Midwifes. It was a really good visit and Gem and Bump seem to be doing fine.

The last time we went to see our midwife, back in week 16, we weren’t really impressed. It seemed like we were on a conveyor belt and she just wanted to get us in and out as quickly as she could. Gem and I agreed that if she wasn’t any better this time that we’d contact the midwife team we’re under and request a new one as we didn’t have much confidence in this one. I was reading somewhere that because the midwifes so important up to the birth and the 3 or so months after that if you weren’t confident in her you should see if you can get her changed.

Thankfully yesterday she was so much better. We went with a list of 5 questions and if we didn’t get good answers to all of them then we’d have to see. She was really nice this time and answered the majority of our questions with out us needing to ask. She also found the little ones hart beet really easily. Gem said that when we could hear the heart beet that I just grinned. I’ve not heard it since week 9.

The questions we had were:

1. Should gem be on any food supplements? Gems one of those weird vedgy types so Georgina, the midwife, said it would probably be a good idea.
2. Would we be able to visit the birthing centre before the birth so we could find out what it was like and to be able to talk to the team there? The answer was yes but also links in with question 3.
3. What did we have to do about antenatal classes? Before we got the chance to ask this one Georgina asked us if we’d been booked in for classes. We’d not heard a thing which surprised Georgina. It looks like we’d been booked in to the wrong hospital which means we’d not been sent the info. There are 3 hospitals which have a baby unit in our area. Royal Gwent in Newport, Abagaveny, (just love the welsh spellings), and the Caerphilly Birthing Centre, (CBC). We wanted to go to the CBC as it’s the closest but it was down on our paperwork as the Gwent. We’ve had it changed now and Georgina said that we should phone the CBC to sort out about antenatal classes. Once I got back from the midwifes check I Phoned them and we’re booked in for lessons at the centre from the 4^th of July. I’ll be blogging about each of the lessons once we’ve been. We’re hoping that as the lessons are at the CBC that part of them will be a look round the unit.
4. What happens next in terms of scans and appointments? Next is another appointment with Georgina in week 28 for another checkup. When we go to that we’ll have already done one class.
5. Could Gem have some paperwork for work? Which we got easily.

So in all a really good visit.

That’s it for now as I’m writing this from Gems parents in Barry.

Take care.

Nick