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post #61 of 103
8/4/10 at 10:16pm
OMG...*whispers* Baby is head down!!!! Not engaged at. all. But head down nonetheless. Please oh please stay that way!!!!
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post #62 of 103
8/4/10 at 10:30pm
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Originally Posted by PinkBunch View Post
OMG...*whispers* Baby is head down!!!! Not engaged at. all. But head down nonetheless. Please oh please stay that way!!!!
post #63 of 103
8/4/10 at 10:50pm
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Originally Posted by PinkBunch View Post
OMG...*whispers* Baby is head down!!!! Not engaged at. all. But head down nonetheless. Please oh please stay that way!!!!
I figure the carrots are the quietest of the veggies. I wouldn't want the baby to overhear all this celebrating, become to excited and turn back around. Yay for you!
post #64 of 103
8/4/10 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by ilovemyavery View Post
I figure the carrots are the quietest of the veggies.
*snort* That made me LOL!

Thanks Alison and Carrie! Now if only I could get him to drop into my pelvis. His head is off to the right at the moment, kind of toward my hip. If I can get him to engage, A) maybe I can stop worrying about position and B) I might actually go into labor sometime!!
post #65 of 103
8/5/10 at 2:41am
(whispering)Yay!Get on a ball and hopefully he'll sink down into your pelvis.
Was it acupuncture?
post #66 of 103
8/5/10 at 7:54am
*whispers* Yay!
post #67 of 103
8/5/10 at 9:07am
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Originally Posted by crittersmom View Post
(whispering)Yay!Get on a ball and hopefully he'll sink down into your pelvis.
Was it acupuncture?
Nope...supposed to go for that today. I think I may put it off till next week. I think it was a combination of everything but largely the adjustment by the new (fabulous) chiropractor yesterday.

Thanks crittersmom and Kelly! *I think he's still head down* shhhhhh.....
post #68 of 103
8/5/10 at 11:36am
Congratulations, PinkBunch! Time to take advantage that you know the head is down and start doing lots of squats, or just sit around squatting!

I'm back to having a hard time figuring out baby's position, but pretty sure head is down and feet are kicking me on right top again. So, maybe LOA or LOP. Yay!
post #69 of 103
8/9/10 at 2:51pm
Weeelllll....I think he's back heads-up. UGH. I have done nothing differently since earlier in the week. And he has been in about every position imaginable since then. I'm so, so over it!

Does anyone else feel this way? Completely and utterly frustrated and defeated and just wanting it to be OVER?? Maybe I'm just having a bad day, but I am so tired of constantly worrying about whether the hard bump at the top of my uterus is a head or a butt and if I'm feeling kicks high or low. I just want to give up.

I'm also irritated because I have a version on the books for Friday, and if he's spinning this much still, it's lots of wasted time and effort.

Sorry to be a downer--I'm just do incredibly annoyed and irritable right now, and I figured you ladies might understand.
post #70 of 103
8/9/10 at 3:49pm
You just described me to a T right now. I was getting cautiously excited because I could have sworn she flipped last night, and then I woke up to a hard ball all the way up between my ribs. Could it be her butt? Maybe. I'm frustrated and sad and scared, and just want her to go head down. Please. For the love of it all, please. I've never had any kind of major surgery and I really, really don't want a cesarean... So yeah, I'm in a major funk today...
post #71 of 103
8/10/10 at 7:12pm
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Add me to the major funk list Still breech... Consult appt. with the OB has been scheduled for Thur or Fri next week (waiting call from midwives). Version would be early the following week. Baby DOES NOT move from this spot, not more than tipping side to side a little, or sometimes sinking further down. I had a few days of feeling zen about this then went to our second class at the birth center, and watched videos of these fabulous water births and came home and cried. I can't imagine loosing my birth!

I'm trying to make some contingency plans if we do need a c-section, or the version ends in an emergency section. My DH doesn't want to talk about it, he says we've "talked enough about it" and that there is no sense worrying about what we don't know yet. He also informed me he won't come to my OB appointment. Why? Because he is concerned if we have a version and then an emergency c-section he'll have to leave work unexpectedly. He has a lot to do, so he basically said "Do you want me at the appointment or the version?" So yeah, now I'm going alone to find out if I'm a candidate for a version. I'm terrified that she's going to say there's an awful cord wrap and it's a section urgently or something. He seems uncharacteristically self-focused on this. He's just worried about work and doesn't seem to to care how I feel about going alone to the appointment.
post #72 of 103
8/10/10 at 8:01pm
*hugs you* I'm doing my appts alone too. I'm so sorry you aren't feeling supported. Do you think that maybe this is how he's handling his own fear of what's going on? My thoughts are with you...*hugs again*
post #73 of 103
8/10/10 at 9:32pm
Midwife couldn't quite figure out where baby was today. All I know is I have feet wayyyyy over to my right side above the hip and hands moving my pelvis in a way that is extremely indicative of a posterior position. I don't get it.
post #74 of 103
8/10/10 at 11:26pm
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*hugs you* I'm doing my appts alone too. I'm so sorry you aren't feeling supported. Do you think that maybe this is how he's handling his own fear of what's going on? My thoughts are with you...*hugs again*
Yeah, I think he is not wanting to face this. He's been very "baby will turn! no worries!" and now that we keep creeping closer, and baby keeps not turning, he's shutting down. He's worried too but is an internal worrier, I'm a talker/planner/MDC poster. I don't mind going to my midwives appointments alone, but I really want him at this OB consult.

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Midwife couldn't quite figure out where baby was today. All I know is I have feet wayyyyy over to my right side above the hip and hands moving my pelvis in a way that is extremely indicative of a posterior position. I don't get it.
Do you have an anterior placenta? I do and there is a "dead zone" in the middle of my belly where it is extremely hard to feel baby's position. Baby usually sits with head up and to the right, one foot down low in my pelvis and hands/other foot out front. I can feel the hands and foot sliding against my skin, little alien baby movements, but when baby sinks low, his/her head "disappears." My midwife had some trouble confirming position, and it was the location of a foot, then a butt, that helped us figure out where the head was. Then she double checked with doppler to confirm.
post #75 of 103
8/11/10 at 12:02pm
Yes, I do have an anterior placenta. She did use the doppler and we were pretty sure the back was on the right side, but where the feet are is so low that it's odd and she said if she can't verify the head down by the next appt (36 wks) we'll do a quick u/s to figure it out. She was really digging in there to try to feel the head but just couldn't.
post #76 of 103
8/11/10 at 12:40pm
Wish me luck, chiro and acu this am, then midwife appt at 2:00......
post #77 of 103
8/11/10 at 12:43pm
I am experiencing the same thing with an anterior placenta. I thought mine was anterior fundal, but it's just plan anterior. The "void" is so weird!

As of my OB appointment Monday, he was head down. We found his heartbeat on the right side about even with my belly button. We peeked with the dinky u/s and couldn't tell which part of his head was down, and we saw *something* next to/behind it. Like an elbow?? None of the placement of the parts was making much sense, and he is still moving SO much that we decided to go ahead with the more detailed u/s at the MFM tomorow. I definitely have feet in my ribs, but he is NOT vertex 99% of the time, and I feel something significant in my left hip to the point that it hurt to lie on my left side last night. Who knows! The likelihood of needing a version at this point is low, but we will be able to at least identify or rule out other malpositioning issues. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's the BACK of his head by my cervix. And that he's 110% posterior. But we shall see.

Carrie--my DH is much like yours in that work takes precedence. Like today I called him twice and have yet to get a call back! He's not coming to my u/s tomorrow, but I think I am okay with that. Don't get me wrong--I would love for him to be there in case I get news I don't want, but at the same time, if I have to trade, I'll take that one. I guess

mkp--any updates from you? You're a week closer than I am and having action (I don't think I've had a single contrax yet), so you've been on my mind!! I do have to say that while no one wants a c/s, having made the decision to have one with DD2, it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. No, it's not the same as a non-interventive vaginal birth. But it can be a positive experience--mine was quite healing, actually. It's easier to get to the point of accepting it and making the best of it when you know that it's inevitable AND the best choice at that moment for your baby. Then you can plan how it's going to go and make it a good birth for everyone. I hope that makes sense. I was terrified and refused to accept that a c/s may be the best course of action for us. But in the end it turned out to be a much more positive experience than I ever could have anticipated--and my recovery was better than my vaginal birth!
post #78 of 103
8/11/10 at 8:20pm
She's now transverse, which I guess is sort of better than breech. They are giving me another week and then I meet with an OB to do another ultrasound and potential ECV. Ugh.

All my other stars are aligning: GBS - (!!!), losing plug, at my weight goal, BP and sugars are perfect. WHY is this happening?!?!?!
post #79 of 103
8/12/10 at 10:44pm
UGH, mkp, I'm so sorrry. On the bright side she IS moving. I felt much like you in that everything else was lining up so well, besides the fact that baby wasn't where he was supposed to be! It's so frustrating.


AFM--Had the pre-ECV ultrasound this morning, and I am thrilled to say that we got to cancel the ECV He was head down, back to my right, arms and legs just where you expect. He's still a boy, and he has LOTS of hair. It was fun getting a peek.
post #80 of 103
8/12/10 at 10:58pm
Oh Pinkbunch that's such great news! You must be ecstatic. Squat, squat, squat! LOL