Breech Baby Breech Baby

Sing that to the tune of Beach Baby Beach Baby-by the beach boys and you will know what has been in my head for the last few days.  We found out on Thursday September 1 at my regular doctor appointment that this baby was feet down instead of head down like he should be.  So the question became "what to do?"  My doctor said that we could just wait and see and plan on a C-section or there is a procedure called a version where a perinatologist tries to turn the baby.  He made it sound relatively easy and only mildly painful.  We had our appointment on Tuesday, September 6 with Dr. Wold who incidentally did the amnio on Cayden the day he was born to see if he was ready.  I thought it was going to be the actual procedure but come to find out that they only do versions in the hospital.  Now the whole 5 days since we found out he was breech I was worried.  My friend had told me long before we knew all of this that her baby turned during labor and they tried to turn her which was excruciatingly painful and did not work.  I also looked up the procedure on the internet and watched a few You-tube videos of it paying particular attention to the faces of the women to see how painful it really was.  It really did not look too horrible and one worked and one didn't.  So after a mostly sleepless night, a blessing and a prayer we headed to Vegas.  We had to go clear to the other side of Vegas and so it took a little longer to get their which did not help my stress level much.  I found out as we were checking in that they would not be doing the procedure that day but it was just a consult to see.  Well that consult was only $1200 or so.  I had a pretty detailed ultrasound where we got to see lots of his little body parts.  It looks like he has pretty chubby cheeks and weighs in about 5lbs 14 oz.  We also found out that he was face down with his bum over by my left hip and both feet headed for the exit.  Then the doctor came in to look at the ultrasound, do a little bit more and tell us what we could do.  Well the baby is way way feet and bum down, my fluid level is not optimal and the placenta is on the front all of which make for a very difficult and very low success rate for the version.  The procedure is only 50/50 anyway and I had 3 strikes already.  The doctor said that it was painful and difficult bit we could do it if I wanted.  He gave me some other options though.  One was to just wait and see, go into labor on my own and hopefully get to the hospital on time and have a C-section.  The other option was to do an amnio early next week and if the baby's lungs were mature then plan on a scheduled c-section pretty soon afterward.  He told us to talk to my doctor and let him know.  After seeing him I went on the monitors for about 30 minutes to check his heartrate and monitor my contractions.  I beat my high score from the hospital the previous week with contraction numbers.  The hardest one I had at the hospital was 37 but at the doctor's office it was 54.  Don likes to talk about it like it's Pac-man or something but he does not have a vice grip on his insides either.  After that doctor we had and hour and a half before my appointment with my regular doctor so we went to Olive Garden and stuffed ourselves with pasta and breadsticks.  After meeting with my doctor who said "I'm glad it was him and not me telling you 'no'", he recommended the amnio option and even called to schedule the C-section for Tuesday at 12:30.  So for the next week we wait and wonder and hope that he is ready so all of this can come to a speedy close and this baby can get here!  If I go into labor on my own and it is progressing then we will just do the c-section unless by some miracle this baby flips on his own.  I am not thrilled with the idea of a c-section, it frankly scares me but giving birth is not a fun thing anyway so we will just wait and see and hope he is ready on Monday.

28 Weeks

My feet are down there somewhere!

25 Weeks Down, 15 To Go

June 23, 2010

Yep, just keep getting bigger. Not even gonna tell you what I weigh.

Getting Fatter By the Second

My feet are down there!

I am documenting my rather large belly mostly because I don't have any or very few pics of me being pregnant before.  Not that I am thrilled that I am getting fatter by the second but it is interesting to see.  It may or may not have anything to do with the oreos and milk that I am eating wwwaaayyyy too many of.  I actually had to break into the emergency stash tonight-the ones that I bottled a few months ago because the huge box I bought at Costco 2 weeks ago is gone-now hold on-I was not the only one that was eating them there are 5 other people in this house.  I did switch to skim milk though in an attempt to make myself feel better about getting fatter.  Even though I have gained 13 lbs-9 last month 0 the month before and 4 the month before- I had actually lost 10 when I went in for my first visit so technically I have only gained 4 pounds...tell that to my arse will ya!  The bad thing is I am constantly hungry it seems and it is very time consuming to eat healthy when it is so easy to open the box of oreos.  Plus I am soooo tired I really don't want to "make" anything.  I have gotten back into Bountiful Baskets a little more than I was when I was so sick so I do have the fruits and veggies to cook with but I need to get back to menus and more cooking.  I have stuck to the basic spaghetti, tacos and chicken and rice once a week when I have cooked dinner but chicken nuggets and frozen hamburgers have been a mainstay around here since I had the "all day" sickness for 3 months!  Here's to no dieting for a few more months!

Hello Baby!

I saw my doctor for the 2nd time on March 21 and had my 12 week nuchal translucency ultrasound.   Don was super busy because he had been out of town the week before and since they would not be able to tell us much about whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he stayed home and worked.  I waited for about 40 minutes to do the ultrasound because the guy was running behind.  That took less than 10 minutes and then I had to wait to see the doctor then wait again to do my bloodwork.  I shouldn't complain though because in the past I would have to go to a different place for the labs and another place for the ultrasound but my doctor does everything all in his office so that makes it much easier.  The nuchal translucency  measured 1.6mm. The doctor said that was fine (abnormal is 2.5 and above) but because I am 35, the lab doing my blood work may come back and say abnormal because the chances for Down Syndrome go up after 35. He said not to worry about it. They also took 11 vials of blood-yes that number is correct- 11! I asked the woman doing the draw if I would be able to walk out of there on my own!  She said that I would be fine.  She did use a pediatric needle thing though because my veins are such crap!  It took longer to get all that blood but did not hurt as much.  The baby measured 59.7mm crown to rump length (crl). We got a good profile shot of the baby and so we decided to tell the kids. We brought the boys into the family room and had them sit on the couch.  Don told them that he needed them to start being more responsible and helping more around the house and doing their laundry and stuff like that.  They were a little perplexed until he got out the ultrasound picture and showed them why mom needed help.  Cayden started screaming "we have a baby sister" even though we won't know for another 5 weeks when we can do the 3/d 4/d u/s. Connor had about a million questions and had made lots of decisions in the 3 minutes-like I was not going to have the baby at the fair (in April), that he and his dad would not go hunting, and that their dad could not travel when it got close to time for the baby. He also said that he thought we were going to tell them that I had cancer or a tumor.  Apparently the word "pregnant" is fun to say for boys so we asked them to please say that "mom's expecting". They wanted to call all the grandparents, and aunts and uncles and said that they will be telling their teachers tomorrow. Cayden has been following me around non-stop and wants to keep touching my belly even though there is nothing there yet and he wants to talk to the baby. Atleast they are all excited.  Connor wants to have a family council to decide the baby's name-he likes Delilah-I told him no. Caleb likes Chloe and Lilly.  Cody is sort of non communicative on the whole thing. I did ask him if he saw the u/s pic and he said that he did and he thought it was a good one. So other than a 2 hour appointment, it was a good day. I was exhausted though! We sent this picture to Grandma Penny and she is sure that this is a female profile.  We will see!

"The Flu"

Well here is the reason why I  had the flu for 2 and a half weeks.  This is the 2nd Ultrasound pic that we had done on March 21 but I found out I was pregnant on February 12.  We went to St. George on that Saturday to go to Texas Roadhouse and get Cayden a much needed haircut.  I got a test when I ran into Target, took it and hid it in my purse hoping that it would not say what I was afraid it was going to say.  I told Don later that night after we got home. I took a second test Sunday morning to confirm the test from the night before.  It was quite the shocker but did explain "the flu" and the extreme exhaustion.