Hi all,
Today is my due date for baby #3, and my first homebirth, but I have no real signs of labor. I'm really anxious to get the show on the road, but trying to take it easy about it. I'm sure many of you have been there.
I'm getting frustrated/obsessive about my baby's position, probably because I'm bored and waiting and don't have much else to do but think about it. He has been head down for weeks, but he keeps flipping back and forth between anterior and posterior. He was posterior last week when the nurse/birth assistant who will be attending came to visit me, and she recommended pelvic tilts, which I've been doing. I'm also sitting on a large birth ball, leaning over the birth ball, and trying some specific sleeping positions from a site called Spinning Babies. Usually these techniques work to flip him from posterior to anterior, but he keeps flipping back.
Besides that, he seems to be nowhere near engaged. I know that thats normal for second or subsequent babies; in fact, neither of my first two babies engaged in my pelvis prior to labor. (Actually, my first baby never engaged in my pelvis. She was at a -2 when my water broke and I had constant pelvic pain with no urge to push, and I ended up pushing her the rest of the way for over 3 hours. It was kind of traumatic for me, which is probably why I'm obsessing about this now.)
Here's what's interesting about this baby: He seems to like to punch the heck out of my cervix. It feels like he lays with his head a few centimeters above 0 station, and reaches his little arms down there and punches me like crazy. I just spent some time sitting/leaning on the ball and doing pelvic tilts, and for the first time today he feels nice and low, but I feel hands down there, not head. Do I need to worry about this? Could this baby end up being born hands first? I keep thinking of that story in the Old Testament when the twins are born and the one sticks his hand out and then pulls it back in.
I tried checking my own cervix last night and I couldn't even feel it. Of course, reaching around my belly doesn't give me a lot of room. I don't really know anything about VEs, but I used to check it when we were TTC, so I thought it might be worth a look. I have my (hopefully) last appt. with my MW tomorrow morning, and I don't think she has any plans to do a VE, since it wouldn't really mean anything anyway.
I guessing I probably don't have anything to be concerned about, but like I said, I'm bored and I have nothing else to obsess over. Any thoughts are welcome.
Today is my due date for baby #3, and my first homebirth, but I have no real signs of labor. I'm really anxious to get the show on the road, but trying to take it easy about it. I'm sure many of you have been there.
I'm getting frustrated/obsessive about my baby's position, probably because I'm bored and waiting and don't have much else to do but think about it. He has been head down for weeks, but he keeps flipping back and forth between anterior and posterior. He was posterior last week when the nurse/birth assistant who will be attending came to visit me, and she recommended pelvic tilts, which I've been doing. I'm also sitting on a large birth ball, leaning over the birth ball, and trying some specific sleeping positions from a site called Spinning Babies. Usually these techniques work to flip him from posterior to anterior, but he keeps flipping back.
Besides that, he seems to be nowhere near engaged. I know that thats normal for second or subsequent babies; in fact, neither of my first two babies engaged in my pelvis prior to labor. (Actually, my first baby never engaged in my pelvis. She was at a -2 when my water broke and I had constant pelvic pain with no urge to push, and I ended up pushing her the rest of the way for over 3 hours. It was kind of traumatic for me, which is probably why I'm obsessing about this now.)
Here's what's interesting about this baby: He seems to like to punch the heck out of my cervix. It feels like he lays with his head a few centimeters above 0 station, and reaches his little arms down there and punches me like crazy. I just spent some time sitting/leaning on the ball and doing pelvic tilts, and for the first time today he feels nice and low, but I feel hands down there, not head. Do I need to worry about this? Could this baby end up being born hands first? I keep thinking of that story in the Old Testament when the twins are born and the one sticks his hand out and then pulls it back in.
I tried checking my own cervix last night and I couldn't even feel it. Of course, reaching around my belly doesn't give me a lot of room. I don't really know anything about VEs, but I used to check it when we were TTC, so I thought it might be worth a look. I have my (hopefully) last appt. with my MW tomorrow morning, and I don't think she has any plans to do a VE, since it wouldn't really mean anything anyway.
I guessing I probably don't have anything to be concerned about, but like I said, I'm bored and I have nothing else to obsess over. Any thoughts are welcome.
