Thursday morning we woke to no internet so no updates until now.
I went for my growth scan Thursday morning to satisfy them that baby was growing fine. He supposedly weighs 6 1/2lbs now so if so and the other u/s was right, he's been gaining 1/2lb a week since the u/s when they said he was not growing well. That's the good news. Fluid level was up to 14cm, too which is great and double what it was at the lowest.
I didn't expect bad news at the ultrasound. Unfortunately, this bub wants to teach me...something. He was breech, again, head under my ribs.
Wednesday night, I was awake from 8pm-1am with what I thought was early labor, very painful, but not strong enough for me to consider it true/real/active labor. Well, I was wrong. It wasn't labor. It was him going from heads down to breech.
Midwife wants to do an external version immediately, but it's something I am really not comfortable with and there's no gurantee.
*sigh* So Thursday night, I had the same experience at night, pain, contractions, etc. but didn't last as long. Friday morning, I went to the chiropractor who cannot tell where his head is really, but my ligaments, etc. were really messed up whereas they had looked perfect the week before (I attribute this to sitting on bleachers for 4 little league games and 2 practices during the week. ). After that, I went to the accupuncturist for a moxi treatment and then went and got some pulsatilla.
I have tried everything so far except going heads down in a pool (cannot swim, nor hold my breath so not a great idea!
) and the external.
I have a midwife appointment Monday and am hoping he is heads down again. I know I've had a lot more pressure feeling since I woke up Friday morning than I did the day before, but it could well be all in my head. I hope not, though. I turned 38 weeks Thursday. They want to do a c-section by 39 1/2-40 weeks if he does not flip by that point, but I am not sure, yet what we will do. I need a REAL appointment to sit down and talk about my options before making a decision.
Not sure how much I'll be posting (depends on if my `net stays up for one, plus, to be quite frank, I am pretty depressed right now over all of this), but I want to wish everyone the best, congrats to all who have had babes (going to peek here in a minute) and send labor vibes to all that need them!
I went for my growth scan Thursday morning to satisfy them that baby was growing fine. He supposedly weighs 6 1/2lbs now so if so and the other u/s was right, he's been gaining 1/2lb a week since the u/s when they said he was not growing well. That's the good news. Fluid level was up to 14cm, too which is great and double what it was at the lowest.
I didn't expect bad news at the ultrasound. Unfortunately, this bub wants to teach me...something. He was breech, again, head under my ribs.
Wednesday night, I was awake from 8pm-1am with what I thought was early labor, very painful, but not strong enough for me to consider it true/real/active labor. Well, I was wrong. It wasn't labor. It was him going from heads down to breech. Midwife wants to do an external version immediately, but it's something I am really not comfortable with and there's no gurantee.
*sigh* So Thursday night, I had the same experience at night, pain, contractions, etc. but didn't last as long. Friday morning, I went to the chiropractor who cannot tell where his head is really, but my ligaments, etc. were really messed up whereas they had looked perfect the week before (I attribute this to sitting on bleachers for 4 little league games and 2 practices during the week.
). After that, I went to the accupuncturist for a moxi treatment and then went and got some pulsatilla.I have tried everything so far except going heads down in a pool (cannot swim, nor hold my breath so not a great idea!
) and the external.I have a midwife appointment Monday and am hoping he is heads down again. I know I've had a lot more pressure feeling since I woke up Friday morning than I did the day before, but it could well be all in my head. I hope not, though. I turned 38 weeks Thursday. They want to do a c-section by 39 1/2-40 weeks if he does not flip by that point, but I am not sure, yet what we will do. I need a REAL appointment to sit down and talk about my options before making a decision.
Not sure how much I'll be posting (depends on if my `net stays up for one, plus, to be quite frank, I am pretty depressed right now over all of this), but I want to wish everyone the best, congrats to all who have had babes (going to peek here in a minute) and send labor vibes to all that need them!
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Only 1cm dilated, soft (b/c of 5th pregnancy), but not effaced at all. Thought my water had broken last night, but she tested and it wasn't. I'm still having some leakage issues randomly so figure he's pushing the "make mommy leak" button. Such a sweet child! 
