What a week!! It all started last week at my 35 week appointment with my midwife. We had the normal routine of checking my blood and blood pressure... then it came time to see where the baby was positioned. Once my midwife started feeling around, I knew something was up by the look on her face. As it turned out, she thought the baby was breech. Uhhhh what??? So this whole time what I thought was the baby's bum was actually his head?? I was so confused... because I thought for sure he was already head down. The thought neeeever occurred to me that I could have a breech baby. She made an appointment the next day to have an ultrasound to confirm her suspicion. As soon as the ultrasound technician started the ultrasound at the bottom of my ribcage, we saw the top of his head. He was most definitely breech!
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All I wanted was a kiss, but she was too distracted by the cars driving past to give me one ;)
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*Side note: during the ultrasound I asked if she could check he was still a boy. (The last ultrasound I had was at 18 weeks, so I just wanted to double check. Especially when people were saying, "Just in case, prepare for a girl!") She was searching and searching, then all of the sudden BAM. She was a bit zoomed in on the ultrasound, and to say I saw everything in detail is an understatement!! I was laughing SO HARD because his boy parts took up the whole screen. I was 95% sure we were having a boy before this ultrasound, now I am definitely 100% positive ;) He's still a boy, that's for sure!!
I was a little shocked, since my idea of giving birth similar to Emma's was thrown out from under me. I had this idea of how my labor would go, and that was all mesed up after hearing this news! Typical that something would happen, right?? Soooo many more options were running through my head!! "What if he won't turn around? What if he does turn around, but turns back? What if I have to have a c-section?..." and so on. Especially since I heard the chances of turning the baby around are a little higher than 50%, and there is a chance he could move back to his original and comfortable position ;)
I had my appointment to get this little guy turned around this past Thursday. I was thinking nonstop the whole week how the appointment would go... I had no idea what to expect. I was just so anxious to get it over with!! By the time we walked into the hospital around 12:30, we left around 5pm. I didn't know it would take so long! We really thought we'd walk in, turn the baby, and be out of there in 30 minutes. Haha oh gosh were we wrong! Poor Joel thought he'd be able to go back to work. I'm just glad he had some hours saved up in case of emergencies so he could be there with me!
Turning him around only took a few minutes thankfully!! One doctor did the positioning while the other had the ultrasound going to see the baby. I heard this whole process was going to be very uncomfortable, but I wasn't expecting it to be as painful as it was. Before they started moving him they gave me some medicine to relax the uterus to help move him easier, but an unfortunate side effect of the medicine was my heart started racing and I felt like I was having an anxiety attack. I could feel my eyes getting wider and not being in control of my emotions. A few minutes after they started giving me medicine, I was instantly SO scared and I knew the medicine had definitely kicked in. I had the hardest time relaxing, thus resulting in it being harder for the doctor to turn the baby. I can't remember the doctors telling me to relax, all I could hear was Joel reminding me to breathe. Thank goodness Joel was there, it was because of him I was able to calm down so they could turn the baby. Joel and I laughed afterwards that this was a good practice for the upcoming labor ;)
After they turned him successfully I was finally able to eat for the day! I wasn't able to eat breakfast and lunch in case of an emergency c-section. I'm glad I didn't have to have an emergency c-section, but at the same time I was kind of sad that I didn't get to have a baby that day... which was so weird to think about! I had to wait an hour after eating to have a checkup to listen to the baby's heartbeat and to monitor any contractions I was having, then wait another hour to have another checkup. I know all the checkups they did were for a reason, and I am really glad they were overly cautious about the health of our baby! I felt very taken care of.
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Emma was SO HYPER during our little photoshoot! I couldn't get her to sit still.
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| You know this girl is in her happy place when her tongue is out and she breathes like a dog.. haha! |
