A turn for the better

Everything is going well and I'm in the States visiting family while Seb is off in France on business. I didn't want to be alone in Mexico for two weeks pregnant so I decided to come visiting the parents again. It's a good thing because I've been completely shut down with my anemia for two days. I talked about all this on my other blog so for all the details, if you're interested, you can catch up over there.

In other news I found a doctor I really like in Mexico who has officially replaced Dr. Fuddy Duddy. He's really nice and seems to have a much stronger notion of what modern birth and childcare are all about. Of course you can't tell everything by just one meeting but I already sensed that he and I were on the same wavelength just by an hour meeting. I'm happy about that.

The other good news is that the Sushi baby is no longer breech. Yay!! She finally turned and we are all okay for a natural birth. What a relief. I know she turned a few days before my appointment because it woke me up. My restlessness awoke Seb and I told him "I think she turned because I felt her moving so much. She was moving in a way that it just wasn't normal." I was right. She had turned head down. It took her up to the 31st week to turn. I know that's not uncommon but it made me nervous.

Things are definitely done differently in Mexico. The doctor claimed that they don't screen for toxplasmosis in Mexico because it's not a problem. I told him I did not have the immunity and I would be worried if I wasn't routinely screened as I had been in France. He didn't seem too concerned but gave me a lab order anyway. I also have yet to get my diabetes test done and the doctor did seem worried about that. I've gained 20 pounds already with this pregnancy and he thinks that's a lot. I actually think I'm much smaller this time around. I don't tend to stay petite while gestating my kids. It seems to be a family problem. My petite mother always got enormous during all of her pregnancies.

In one week we return to Mexico for a final settling in. Hopefully our furniture and the baby clothes will arrive soon. I am so eager to have things set up. Mexico doesn't have a very large selection of baby things at all as it seems almost all of the Mexican and expat moms told me that they make trips to the US for their baby things a few times before the baby comes. I'll be really stuck if those boxes don't get here. The Mexican stores are equipped with the bare minimum.