You may or may not know this depending on if you get a Christmas card from us or not, and if you have seen me in the past four or five months but I am pregnant with baby #4. I also haven't really mentioned it on the blog, but I am 37 3/4 weeks pregnant.
This pregnancy has been a little different than the others but pretty standard too. I don't mention much about my pregnancies because even though I do get morning sickness sometimes night or all day sickness in the beginning, retain some water( my feet are so swollen that we could play a game seeing what cool things we could press in to them to leave in dents), get heart burn, don't sleep well, have ache legs and hips especially at night and various other not so fun pregnancy symptoms, I feel things go over rather well and until I get to about now sometimes later life doesn't change too much. My pregnancies are rather boring, and we don't find out the gender of our babies so that just adds to it. So compared to family members and friends I know I always think it is just better to keep quiet.
I had been feeling rather good up until Tuesday when I went to the doctors. He checked to see if I was dilated at all and then did an ultrasound to see if the baby was in the right position or not. Here is where I may give you more info than you want to know, so sorry. I am dilated to a 3+, the baby is probably around 7lbs. but the baby is breech. Which I had kind of suspected with the movements that have been happening down there. It has sort of knocked the wind out of my sails so to speak because unless the baby turns a c- section is in my future.
This means that we are praying really hard that the baby will turn on it's own, but I am going in Friday to have my doctor can do a "version" procedure to try and turn the baby from the outside. If these things fail or I go in to labor and my water breaks on it's own then I will have to have a c- section. Which is not the end of the world, but I would really rather not have one.
This is all really interesting too because my mom's fourth baby was breech. Back then they didn't know and she just delivered my sister that way but now it's a no go.
Another factor is that yesterday was Dylan's birthday. He is my nephew that lived just 10 days and I really didn't want to have the baby on his birthday or death day (March 8). They are just hard days and have taken years for my side of the family to somewhat deal with, on how each of us dealt with his death and grieved for him. I have just not wanted to add anything to those days.
I had been feeling really well and just plugging along but this news has been a blow. Knowing how far dilated I am makes me feel like a ticking time bomb. Now I can walk around for a while like this, probably have with past pregnancies but the breech news is sinking me. I was planning on these last couple of weeks of pregnancy and wanted to go in to labor on my own because I have been induced with the three other kids but it seems I need to be more flexible in my planning. Humph.
Anyone with any experience with a breech baby let me know, PLEASE.
On a better note, something I can't forget to write about was the surprise baby shower that my neighbors and visiting teaching partner threw for me. It was a complete surprise until 15 minutes before hand. Which was when my visiting teacher got the location wrong and knocked on my door holding a present and I was still in my pajamas and she had to back track and say she was just passing by going someplace and remembered she needed to set up an appointment with me. Not at all like her. It didn't help that another neighbor was walking by at that same time on a cold February morning. It made all the gears in my head start to work a little.
My visiting teaching partner had set it up with this line that she had set up appointments and that her visiting teacher was going to watch her kids and had offered to watch mine too. I took this bait hook line and sinker until my visiting teachers's little mishap.
When I figured out what was happening I seriously tried to think of every way out I could, but realized that I had to go. I guess I need to work on humility and being a good receiver and not just giver. This was really one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me though and I was so touched that these neighbors would be so kind and go to so much work for me and be so generous.
It was really low key and a diaper themed shower which is perfect and just a really nice thing. I am really grateful to these ladies for being so thoughtful.
One of the things about this pregnancy or my pregnancies in general is that in order for me to keep my calm or just not inflict too many with my hormonal wave riding a tend to become a recluse I feel this pregnancy has been the worst and so to have this out pouring of love when I feel I have been less than social and pleasant was such a nice gesture. I feel very indebted to those wonderful ladies.
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| In case you needed a visual. This is me at 36 weeks . |
I had been feeling rather good up until Tuesday when I went to the doctors. He checked to see if I was dilated at all and then did an ultrasound to see if the baby was in the right position or not. Here is where I may give you more info than you want to know, so sorry. I am dilated to a 3+, the baby is probably around 7lbs. but the baby is breech. Which I had kind of suspected with the movements that have been happening down there. It has sort of knocked the wind out of my sails so to speak because unless the baby turns a c- section is in my future.
This means that we are praying really hard that the baby will turn on it's own, but I am going in Friday to have my doctor can do a "version" procedure to try and turn the baby from the outside. If these things fail or I go in to labor and my water breaks on it's own then I will have to have a c- section. Which is not the end of the world, but I would really rather not have one.
This is all really interesting too because my mom's fourth baby was breech. Back then they didn't know and she just delivered my sister that way but now it's a no go.
Another factor is that yesterday was Dylan's birthday. He is my nephew that lived just 10 days and I really didn't want to have the baby on his birthday or death day (March 8). They are just hard days and have taken years for my side of the family to somewhat deal with, on how each of us dealt with his death and grieved for him. I have just not wanted to add anything to those days.
I had been feeling really well and just plugging along but this news has been a blow. Knowing how far dilated I am makes me feel like a ticking time bomb. Now I can walk around for a while like this, probably have with past pregnancies but the breech news is sinking me. I was planning on these last couple of weeks of pregnancy and wanted to go in to labor on my own because I have been induced with the three other kids but it seems I need to be more flexible in my planning. Humph.
Anyone with any experience with a breech baby let me know, PLEASE.
On a better note, something I can't forget to write about was the surprise baby shower that my neighbors and visiting teaching partner threw for me. It was a complete surprise until 15 minutes before hand. Which was when my visiting teacher got the location wrong and knocked on my door holding a present and I was still in my pajamas and she had to back track and say she was just passing by going someplace and remembered she needed to set up an appointment with me. Not at all like her. It didn't help that another neighbor was walking by at that same time on a cold February morning. It made all the gears in my head start to work a little.
My visiting teaching partner had set it up with this line that she had set up appointments and that her visiting teacher was going to watch her kids and had offered to watch mine too. I took this bait hook line and sinker until my visiting teachers's little mishap.
When I figured out what was happening I seriously tried to think of every way out I could, but realized that I had to go. I guess I need to work on humility and being a good receiver and not just giver. This was really one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me though and I was so touched that these neighbors would be so kind and go to so much work for me and be so generous.
It was really low key and a diaper themed shower which is perfect and just a really nice thing. I am really grateful to these ladies for being so thoughtful.
One of the things about this pregnancy or my pregnancies in general is that in order for me to keep my calm or just not inflict too many with my hormonal wave riding a tend to become a recluse I feel this pregnancy has been the worst and so to have this out pouring of love when I feel I have been less than social and pleasant was such a nice gesture. I feel very indebted to those wonderful ladies.
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And if it doesn't work, Mariah was breech too and didn't turn. And C-sections are not really all that terrible. I actually prefer them to giving birth the regular way. If you have questions you are welcome to email me.
And I really admire (and kind of understand) your low key approach to pregnancy. And I feel for your misery!