To make a long story short, she is still breech and we have decided on a c-section tomorrow. We report at 5:30 a.m. and my surgery time is 7:30 a.m.
No internet access at the hospital, but pics will be uploaded as soon as possible.
Tomorrow, I will be a Mother. If I say much more, I might start crying and never stop.
Well, she’s frank breech. Our little girl has her bottom in my pelvis where her head should be.
So, the plan is this: We report to the hospital on Tuesday, August 28 for external cephalic version. This is where the doctor attempts to turn the baby. They give me drugs to relax me and my uterus, grease up my stomach and manually try to push her head around into the right position. I very much want to avoid a cesarean birth, and if she hasn’t turned on her own by then we really feel like this is our best shot. I’ll be 39 weeks and 1 day at that point. If she doesn’t turn, well, we’ll do a cesarean. Best case scenario, we show up to the hospital and find she’s flipped on her own. Then we wait. Bottom line: 2 in 3 chance we’re having this baby next week one way or another.
It’s… overwhelming. Is there a word that describes a feeling beyond nervous, or even anxious?
So, let’s all sing “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Turn around, bright eyes.
Oh my gosh! I have a blog! I bet my 2 readers out there thought I had forgotten it completely. Well, you’re wrong! Haha!
Friday night kicked off the weekend with a pipe busting in our hall bath around 7 p.m. Whee! After calling about three plumbers and pulling the “I’m nine months pregnant!” card we got a sweet, sweet plumber out to the house around 10 p.m. The good news: he could fix it, the bad news: not until Saturday morning. It was a little drywall screw in a pipe that took two years to come loose. Lovely. So, we had to leave our water turned off over night. He was there bright and early Saturday and fixed us up, though, and even charged us his regular rate and not his weekend/night rate. We have officially found Our Plumber. Our builder came by this morning and is planning to send his sheetrock guy and carpet guy over to fix up the damages for us gratis. Hopefully, soon, because we’re a short 14 DAYS FROM THE DUE DATE! WE’RE HAVING A BABY! (Side note: the baby is breech and we may be meeting her sooner, like next week. More details to come after we see the doc this afternoon.)
Also, I wanted to get this recorded because someone asked me last week and I don’t want to forget…
Things I have craved at one time or another while pregnant:
peanut butter (PB shake from Sonic, but especially Baskin Robbins Peanut Butter n’ Chocolate iced cream)
strawberries (iced cream, milk shakes, fresh ones, all things strawberry)
sweet tea
lemonade
fruit punch (Crystal Light, or Kool-Aid… Oh YEAH!)
olives
canned peaches (yes, just canned ones)
COLD fresh apple
Sonic steak sandwich (which no longer exists, darn it, and I can find no reasonable substitute)