...and now we're back (from the hospital).

The baby's heart rate was monitored again this afternoon in the same way that it was back on the 4th of August.

Once again the baby showed rising heart-rate with movement (which is good). In fact Bump was probably more active during the period of monitoring than any other time in the last 24 hours or so. This might be because the midwife (Mandy) did a membrane sweep immediately beforehand and also because she fastened the straps to hold the electrodes in place quite tightly. (Apparently babies don't like this.)

The midwife said that the membrane sweep was difficult because the cervix was far back, but she said that she did manage to do a partial sweep. Now we have to wait and see whether it was enough to prompt any change.