Week 33

Placenta: praevia
Baby's weight: approx. 2kg
Baby's sex: definitely a girl

Well, looks like I've found the cause of my aching pelvis: the baby's head is doing battle with a low-lying placenta. My next appointment and scan is two weeks from now. Doc says by then, if the baby's head doesn't nudge the darned placenta out of the way, he'll schedule a C-section.

Weighing at approximately 2kg, she's a little on the small side. Other than that, she's as healthy as a little peach.

"Put on some weight for me," the doc says.

"I'm eating but I'm the one putting on, not the baby!" I protest.

Sigh...

It's out of my hands now. If the baby doesn't push her way through and engage by the next two weeks, I'm gonna have to go under the knife.

In the meantime, she actually looks quite cute on the scan. Not that I can make out much other than her squashed little nose and her huge (or to me it seems) head. Then again, don't most babies have squashed noses?