Today I’m 33weeks, 1 day. Only 7 weeks to go. I am psyched! We have managed to get some pre-natal classes in, and it’s really exciting to think about giving birth to my precious Kick Boxer. I am apprehensive about the birth, but the classes and reading materials have helped me get some perspective and to feel secure. The only thing that worries me now is: “Will they let me do it my way??” Because I’m giving birth in Thailand, there are some things that I might not be able to ‘control’ as my labour progresses normally. Some doctors here just ‘do birth’ a certain way, and you can’t convince them otherwise. My doctor is pretty good, and I think that he’ll honour our birth plan, but I still feel apprehensive about it.
Today I had my regular check up and we discovered that the Little Kick Boxer is breech… a couple of weeks ago the doctor told us that she was head down, so I’m not sure how he made that mistake. So now, after completing all my natural childbirth classes and getting excited about all that, and thinking through strategies to make sure things are done MY WAY and not the ‘hospital policy’ way, I have to start considering the possibility of having it all turned upside down and having a cesarean. Bleh! Double Bleh! Abdominal surgury stinks! But, as my birth instructor puts it: The end goal is a healthy baby and healthy mummy. Whatever it takes to accomplish that goal is okay.
abigael was quite content to sit cross legged in my pelvis throughout the third trimester. i did every pelvic exercise imaginable to coax her to flip to no avail. at 35 weeks, when we were certain she was too big to turn and i was certain i would have a section, she flipped. i was completely surprised becasue the doc told me i would know if she did being she was so big and that would be a ginormous movement. well, no. i imagine she did it while i was sleeping because she never manuevered ginormously or actively while i was awake. abigael was born vaginally 1 week later weighing 6lbs 14oz.
this little one will come out the right way for her and no one else…but pelvic tilts and reclining on pillows head down certainly won’t hurt.
time is flying!
warning: it goes by faster after they are born.
take care.