I've made it to 38 weeks. I'm tired, and hurting... but I see the end in sight! Even if the end isn't quite how I planned on it happening. At 36 weeks, I went into my regular checkup and had my first internal check done. I was 1cm and 50% effaced. She was head down and engaged so nicely. At 37 weeks, I went in to get checked and we couldn't find her heartbeat. She had hiccups while we were trying to find it and she was moving like crazy so I wasn't worried, but after 3 nurses tried to find the heartbeat, they finally let the doctor give it a try. The doctor checked me first and said he couldn't feel the head anymore. He put the doppler at the very top of my belly and we heard her heart pounding away. She's breech!
Que the crying. I knew just what that meant... C-Section. We did a quick ultrasound and confirmed that she's in the footling breech position with her head on my right side, her butt on my left side and her feet straight down. No wonder I've been having these crazy back numbing spasms lately. We go back to the doctor on Wednesday to see if she's still breech. I am pretty positive that she is since her movements are so in line with her position. If she hasn't moved, we'll head on over to the hospital and try to move her by an external version. I've heard these are pretty painful, but I think I'll do just about anything to avoid a C-Section. If the Version fails, we'll schedule a C-Section in the near future.
I am pretty freaked out. A C-Section isn't what I had in mind at all! I have gotten a little more used to the idea, but it's still not what I want. I loved Labor and Delivery with Eden and remember leaving the hospital saying that I couldn't wait to do it again. I was just expecting to have the same experience this time. We're praying pretty hard that she flips and we avoid having the C-Section. I think Craig is secretly excited that he might be able to watch a pretty cool surgery.
Now if only Craig and I could agree on a name....
Eden is doing great. She totally knows what's coming. She says "hi baby sissy" every morning to my belly and has to kiss it. She's getting extra clingy to us and wants us to carry her everywhere. She watches A Baby Story with me just about every day and gets so excited when the babies are born. She yells, "Come out baby!". She's pretty hilarious. She's putting 4 words together at a time and it seriously blows us away how she is learning everything so quickly. She thinks she's Queen of the house and she is seriously treated like one. There is no lack of attention here.
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i hope she flips too! however, i've known so many people who had c-sections and said it wasn't bad at all. i'm like you though...i pass by the hospital and can't wait to go back to have another baby! the entire experience for me was awesome.
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