Yes, already I`m there. I just can`t believe how fast time went by. But that`s not how I used to feel a few weeks or months ago… All I can say is that my pregnancy has been going really well and I have nothing to complain about. Well, except for one thing; my baby won`t bring his head down. He is in a full breech position which means C-section. This has been a hard pill to swallow last week when my obstetrician informed me of the news. The doctor has scheduled me for a version of the baby which didn`t work. So, unless little baby decides to bring his down, I will have to have a surgery.
This has been difficult to accept because for the past eight months, I have been thinking of how the delivery would occur. I have been visionning it over and over. I have been thinking about my waters breaking, rushing to get everything together and head to the hospital. But it seems like it won`t happen. My husband and I will just pack the car like if we were leaving on a trip, check in at the hospital, like you check in at the hotel, and a few hours later, we will be parents. The more I think about having the baby that way, the more I get use to it … I guess.
What upsets me is the surgery itself. I have never had a surgery before. And also the probabilities of having future babies through C-section. I am thinking that I might have to put a cross on having a natural birth. I feel like as a women, this is something that I should experience, the suffering to bring to the world such a desired little being, then within a matter of seconds, forgetting all about the suffering at the sight of the cherished little one.
So in the new scenario, my husband will be in charge of the baby while I recover from the surgery. He will get to smell this little one first, and to hug him skin against skin, as it is highly recommended to do with newborn. Well, he will definitely bond with little baby.
I really want to breastfeed the baby so I just hope that the surgery won`t have too much of an impact on my desire. That would definitely really upset me. I guess that I`ll get so much time to bond with the baby through breastfeeding. I just envision myself looking at the baby and him looking back at me while he breastfeed.
I am wondering if I idealize all this too much, but I can`t help it.
So I should find out next week wether I`ll have a C-section or not. Until then, I am trying acupuncture to help the baby turn.
38 weeks
December 11, 2008 by montrealtoronto
My 11lbs 15 oz daughter turned from frank breech to vertex at 39wks.
There are a number of things you can try before resorting to a c-section (due to the risks to you and baby during and after surgery, and the increased risks in future pregnancies c-section should be of the absolute last resort)
You can try playing music at the bottom of your belly.
You can try putting an ice pack on the babies head (I could get my DD to turn from frank breech to transverse using this trick but she’d get stuck and come back around.)
You can try swimming (the bouyancy of your belly in the water may help take pressure off ligaments allowing baby to turn easier)
You can try laying on a tilt board
You can try doing an inversion http://spinningbabies.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-do-inversion.html
You can try another external cephalic version
You can try massage
You can try a Webster Trained Chiropractor
You can try Pulsatilla (a homeopathic medication that stimulates the uterus slightly and may encourage baby to turn)
And You can come over to the International Cesarean Awareness Network’s Support Forums for more information, advice, and support. http://www.ican-online.org/forum