MW doesn't like my stomach, I can tell

[GinaRae]

Makes me kind of laugh. The MW I am having all the probs with, early on in the pregnancy she would try to palpate to find the baby. She doesn't do that now at all and today for the first time she tried, then handed the belly duties off to the other MW

I am fat and I can imagine all this extra junk in the front is hard to palpate through. But I think the other MW just has more experience palpating babies and getting baby heartbeats with big women so she doesn't bulk at all.

I'd been wondering why when I ask baby's position it sounds like she had been guessing or she would actually not answer me. Now I realize it must be because of my zaftig, bodacious body

They both had trouble with finding the head and butt today and deciding which was which. But no big deal it sounds like. They will help me deliver breech too. The only thing they can't do is transverse delivery.

I asked if the baby's size matters with breech and they said two breeches they've delivered were over 10 pounds and it didn't seem to matter. Plus I have a proven vajayjay with my prior VBACs, so I shouldn't have any problems.

*sigh* I am going to be butt naked in front of these women! I hope labor makes me not care.

[scheelimama]

Well, you don't HAVE to birth butt naked. I didn't either time. But still, you're pretty much naked from belly on down.

[Kontessa]

Way to go naked venus goddess! hehehehehe


I do not plan on being naked. I love my cami tops with built in shelf bras. They are comfy!

[Da WIC Lady]

Originally Posted by Kontessa

Way to go naked venus goddess! hehehehehe


I do not plan on being naked. I love my cami tops with built in shelf bras. They are comfy!

I wonder if I could get away with a nice flowy skirt? Not that it would fit, nor be fit to be worn after, but at least Dad could come in the room and not keel over of a heart attack... I mean the man would get red in the face when I would breastfeed with a drape when DD was a newborn for crying out loud! :

Anna

[lisalulu]

Originally Posted by GinaRae

*sigh* I am going to be butt naked in front of these women! I hope labor makes me not care.

I'm pretty self conscious about my body and even after I ended up transferring to the hospital and was in front of their midwife and L&D nurse I didn't care. I spent most of my labor naked because I was in and out of the tub and I was so in my own world it didn't even cross my mind that I had no clothes on!

[Steady101]

Originally Posted by Da WIC Lady

I wonder if I could get away with a nice flowy skirt? Not that it would fit, nor be fit to be worn after, but at least Dad could come in the room and not keel over of a heart attack... I mean the man would get red in the face when I would breastfeed with a drape when DD was a newborn for crying out loud! :

Anna

You can wear whatever you want. I wore a nightgown last time. What gives easy access.

[*Lindsey*]

I do think labor makes you lose most (if not all) modesty.

[strawberryfields08]

That is one of the things I love about my mw. She never acts like my big ole belly is anything she hasn't dealt with before!
I am pretty modest...well I was before I was nursing a toddler who likes to pull my clothes off everywhere...
So I birthed in a nightgown. It was an old moo moo type that my aunt gave me and it worked well to keep me covered and allow easy access. Plus it wasn't tight on my body so it felt comfy.

[Mahre]

I don't know if this will make you feel any better. I am too skinny and with my DS, my midwife had to have me get an ultrasound because she and the OB I saw (just in case of an emergency during delivery) could not tell the head from butt. They were stumped for several months.

This baby they say is great and I should be used for students to practice on. I don't know what the difference is?

Each baby is different.

[GinaRae]

I am pretty sure once I am in the middle of it all, I just won't care. I think! This is the first time I am not on neutral hospital ground. Though in the hospital I do not remember worrying about having my legs open in front of anyone in all my births. It's sorta like, "Who else wants a look?" But I guess I;ve gotten shy.

My worst problem at the hospital was the discomfort of the gowns and no bra. Oh and 12 years ago when I was splayed out naked on an operating room table with no clothes on and out of my mind (literally had an out of body experience) I was upset because I thought they let a young kid into the OR. I thought he was 12 or 14. Turns out it was one of my doctors

I am keeping something like a bra or tank top with shelf on top for comfort since the girls sag, but they're the least of my worries. I keep thinking of my big, lumpy thighs swinging in everyone's faces