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[Altair]

I actually don't have a lot of residual emotional stuff to work through from my son's birth-- I am 100% sure that I gave it my all and tried everything under the sun, and worked at it longer and harder than I ever thought possible.  It was a tremendous, traumatic amount of pain, but I'd gladly go through that pain again for my next baby.  We are very at peace with our midwife's role during the birth, our doula's help, and our decision to transfer.

My risks are higher now as a HBAC mom, plus I have the additional history of CPD.  I never thought my body would grow a baby bigger than I could push out, but I should have known with my petite family and my husband's enormous family, we had a bit of a mismatch there!  Overall though, it was the head size and not his 9lb4oz weight that did it.  His head was off the charts. 

Yes there are risks to everything, but when it comes to knowingly taking a risk with your child's life, it's a risk that's hard to swallow because you would have a pretty hard time ever forgiving yourself.  I want to give us the best chance to have a normal birth, which is why I want a HBAC, but I was curious if there were other moms who have made that choice and could talk though how they finally decided on it. 

I was a doula for 10 years and could easily help *others* through this decision, but it's so much harder when it's yourself!

Originally Posted by lactomom 

Altair,
There are always risks to everything! When we get in the car we risk an accident. We we plug in an appliance we risk fire. When we make a decision we risk being wrong.
Bottom line for birth, if your not comfortable with your birthing environment it will be a negative experience! It also sounds like you have SO MUCH emotional stuff to work through before you can really decided where to birth.
Typically our bodies will not grow babies we can't birth, thought there are exceptions. My mom 5' 3" gave birth (vaginaly) to a 10 lb 4 oz baby. Small women can birth large babies. Now I don't know your situation to a T, there is still so much I don't know (and don't need to know). What I do know is fear and undealt with emotions negatively affect birth. Take care of yourself so you can take care of baby. ((HUGS))

[Nicole730]

I had my first midwife appointment at 11w6d.  It went well and we heard the heartbeat right away - 164.  I told her at that point I had been feeling movement for about a week and she seemed skeptical, but then said when she had the Doppler on me that she could feel the baby moving a lot.  I have my next appointment January 11th.  I've been feeling what might be some sort of depression/anxiety lately that I will probably bring up, if it doesn't subside by then.  Otherwise I don't think we'll have much else to discuss.  I didn't get bloodwork done at my first appointment, but I might do it at this one depending how I am feeling.  I'm vegetarian, so I probably should get my iron levels checked.

[LindyGirl]

I had another appt today and we heard the heartbeat! Yay! :D I am 11w3d.

[deborahbgkelly]

Congrats LindyGirl!

[lactomom]

Originally Posted by LindyGirl 

I had another appt today and we heard the heartbeat! Yay! :D I am 11w3d.

Awesome! I'm looking forward to that next week

[LindyGirl]

Thank you! It's a wonderful sound. I've also started feeling some teeny little flutters, which is so fun. :)

[MaerynPearl]

appointment the day before yesterday

bp 117/73

heartbeat 163

have to take cranberry pills every day because I'm prone to UTI's and she wants my urine more acidic.

Continue on Brewer Diet.

next appointment is at the end of January, we will probably schedule my ultrasound at that one.

[tylersmomma]

had my appt today and b/p was good and babys hb was 164 so that was good too. we only have one baby in there. but MW told me from the measureing on u/s im only 8w4d but acording to my LMP i should be 11ws today. so i dont know whats up. and MW also said they saw a sub hemmraige and i dont really know what that mean other than its 2cm. can anyone explain that to me? i go back 1/12/12 for another appt. and u/s.

[Patches]

Had a sono last week, at 8 weeks 5 days, tech said everything looks excellent, adn wow it was cool to see the heartbeat.  Will do the nuchal scan in a couple of weeks.  Told my 4 year old about the baby today, man he's excited.  :)

[deborahbgkelly]

Yay Patches! That sounds wonderful.

[blissedmama]

Had my 2nd Appointment wednesday 13w3d, brought my other 2 girls they loved it! I also had the MW do a pap..not so fun but better than making a docs apt!
My 2 girls got to use the doppler and find the babes heartbeat..it so amazing to hear that sound! Everything else is good, 3rd time 'round not much to discuss!

[Abeautifullove]

Had an appt. yesterday with our midwife for the first time, we didnt do much, mostly discussion, she will come back on wednesday to listen for the heartbeat, but she did however, measure my uterus.  Which is measuring a month ahead.  So now we are faced with my due date being a month off ( I and her see this unlikely since I tested that month with neg results and feel confident in when we concieved) or possibly twins, or just a large baby.  But one way or the other by the time 20 weeks comes around, if I'm still measuring that ahead she would like to know what was going on, and our original plan was to not have any ultrasounds, so now we are in debate of what to do.  If we shoudl get one now, take a tiny, FAST peek, or if we should wait and see what happens when I get closer to 20 weeks! agh! decisions decisions!

[Patches]

Abeautifullove, how do you feel about the prospect of twins?  Whoa!

[Abeautifullove]

Lol we have actually had some weird suspicions tha it might be, this pregnancy has been very different from my other two, which were the same, I know that doesn't say much, but I'm tired a lot, have low energy and have felt very big this whole time lol.  My diet is pretty good, I'm getting in what I need generally, just feels like I can't get enough sometimes loo. 

[MaerynPearl]

When you've had children before you will almost always measure large for dates, definitely don't let her change your due date based on that alone. I'm only going on 13 weeks and my uterus is already to my belly button!

[lactomom]

Definitely can be large for date and still have one baby. I'm 10 weeks (just one baby) and I found my uterus today half way between my pubic bone and my belly button (that's about 16 weeks).

It is possible that you're having twins, but fundal height isn't an accurate prediction.

[Abeautifullove]

Yeah, we'll see what we find out this week maybe!  Ive got lots of other weird symptoms going on that shouldnt be happening as well, so I'm hoping they have an answer for that.  Ive never measured big before, with either of my other two, so measuring big, let alone a month big, is very strange for us.  Do ya'll that measure big have big babies? 

[LindyGirl]

No. I never measure big and have 10 lb babies. My friend who also measured right on just had a 7lb baby. :)

From my understanding, fetuses at this stage are all relatively the same size, give or take a few centimeters. The growth variation doesn't start to occur until late in the second/early in the third trimester. So there are probably several explanations for a large fundal height, and you may go on to have a big baby, but the baby you're carrying wouldn't be big yet, given its age. :)

[MaerynPearl]

My babies have all been in the 7lb some odd ounces, not "big" babies by any means.

The fundus just measures higher in mamas who aren't primagravida (first baby) because it's already stretched out once, it doesn't have as much work to do to stretch out and find it's place. Or something pretty much like that.

[Abeautifullove]

wow!! 10 lbs!  I dont have big babies, my first was 7.4 and my second 8.2 and i measured right on with both!  We are more concerned with my symptoms than measurments, would just like to know whats up.