Here He is at the appointment from Thursday. He was not cooperative at all. He just does not like his picture being taken. As soon as we saw his face, he flipped over to show us his backside. All went well with the appointment, the Peri actually said it was okay to go to the table for dinner. I promised there would be no shopping trips if he would allow this one small thing, and he agreed. The Peri felt I was close enough to 34 weeks that it would be okay to eat at the table. Woo Hoo! The Peri ROCKS!
The nurse at the Peri's office hooked me up to monitor the heartbeat and contractions. It was like having flashbacks to being in the hospital. And of course this is when The Boy decided that he was going to sleep instead of cooperate. So the nurse came in and zapped Him to wake him up, that seemed to do the trick for a little while and then he went back to sleep. The monitoring itself didn't take long, but the waiting. OMG, the waiting. The Peri was running behind, so they didn't take me back for a good 30 minutes and then I had to wait again at the end to speak with him. The amniotic fluid level is back up, which leads The Peri to believe that it has been up the entire time. So the last two times they checked, where it was within normal ranges, was due to the position of the baby. The level is just outside the upper limits, it should be under 25 to be in the normal range and at this appointment it was at 27.
We then went to the OB appointment, where we were really late and they did not call be back until almost noon. Can I just say the people in the waiting room were the worst. I now know why I like my appointments early in the morning, the locals cannot seem to get out of bed that early and there are normal people in the waiting room. Anyway, the lateness caused me to see the OB that The Husband hates. I did not discuss the fluid level with her, because I did not want to prolong the visit (I'll just wait until this coming Thursday to talk with another doc).
Dr. Who-Husband-Hates started talking about the options for dealing with a breech baby. They can manually rotate him, but they have to have an OB set up when doing this because most of the time you have to have an emergency C-Section and it only works 50% of the time. She said that it would be up to me whether I wanted Him turned or if I wanted to schedule a C-Section. Umm, who would want to turn the baby when it has a coin flip chance of working and when it also causes stress on the baby? No thanks. If He stays breech we are going for the planned C-Section.
Here is the HAIR! GROSS!From The Husband:
OK to sum up this post. We are growing a Wookie that just had its brains scrambled by a vibrator to the head and will almost certainly be delivered via C-section by the one doctor that I do not like, even though the practice has like 8 other OBs.
3 comments:
So your boy sounds like our first born son. Our boy was also breech and I thought it too risky to try to turn him (especially with me on heparin), so a planned c-section it was. And I must tell you that it was super easy. I was so geared up for a section that towards the end I was nervous that he would flip b/c I hadn't mentally prepared to birth him vaginally. No thanks on the "vagina explosion". Tearing down there sounds horrible.
As for the hair, we too saw hair on Hudson's 34 week ultrasound - actually I think we saw it on his 28 week ultrasound. I was convinced I was going to give birth to some sort of hairy beast. I was sure I was having a little monkey baby, but Hudson was perfect. He had a little bit of hair but he was far from being hairy. Don't let the u/s hair scare you.
BTW - congrats on making it this far! You're doing an awesome job keeping this little guy put. Maybe we won't have to send you our preemie clothes after all. You're going to make it to term, hell I'm predicting that you'll get induced at 40 weeks, oh wait nevermind, you'll have your scheduled c-section.
I wouldn't worry so much about which doctor will do your section... I would only care about their surgical skills (not their bedside manner!). I had never even met the OB who did my section until a few hours before!! (my OB was out of town - of course!) The big thing for me was the nursing staff... they are the ones who will really walk you through everything and be there the whole time!!
If you have ANY questions about the c-section, please gimme a call! It's all still pretty fresh in my mind!! No question is silly.
eek!! You are getting so close!! I cannot wait to see the little guy!
Yeah! Congrats on making it to the table!
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