26 Weeks
Today we had our 26 week check up with the OB and baby girl is looking good! We got to listen to her heartbeat which was awesome. Baby girl wasn’t to happy about being poked by the nurse to be able to get a good listen. She kept kicking her away. She is much more feisty than Sweet Pea ever was. I remember having days where I didn’t feel Sweet Pea moving at all and would freak out. I went to the OB office multiple times with him to make sure he was still alive because I hadn’t felt him in over 48 hours. Apparently he was just really comfortable in the womb and didn’t feel the need to move about. This little one is totally opposite. I have not had to worry once about her because she is constantly changing positions.
We got to talk to our OB at length about our VBAC situation. A few weeks ago I wrote how I was worried we wouldn’t be on the same page. For the most part we are. I can labor at home for a while and then come up to the hospital to be admitted. I can have a heplock instead of an IV so I can still move around the room. This gives the doc and nurses comfort in knowing they can hook me up to an IV fast if need be. She wants me to be hooked to a baby monitor as a precaution. I am not a big fan of this because that doesn’t give me a huge radius of space to walk around in. But I am willing to do this as long as I am not confined to the bed. The back pain I am having during pregnancy is greatly relieved when I am not laying in bed on my back, so I can’t even imagine being confined to the bed with labor pains. Ouch! The only thing that we disagree on is the epidural. I am hoping that I can do this as naturally as possible and an epidural doesn’t really figure into that equation. But my OB is pretty adamant about me having one pretty early on in the labor for her own comfort. I do understand and respect that, but it’s not what I want. I am going to sit on it and pray about it for the next couple of days and talk to my Bradley instructor and see what her opinion is. Hopefully we can get this figured out soon…
Ok, maybe she’ll be Sweet Pepper, since she’s so feisty. It’s nice when you can feel them, though – fewer worries. I swear that the place where Iain shoved his (enormous) feet toward the end is *still* sore.
Hope the birth plan works out.
Rose never liked it when the doctor would try to examine me…she literally used to ATTACK the monitor when he tried to listen to her heartbeat!
Maybe you’ll have a little firecracker on your hands.
Hey from Virginia again,
My doctor took great care of me and monitered me closely. I went every Friday (for several weeks) to the hospital and they hooked me up to the machine to keep a check on my progress. I did have an epidural. It did help me. We’ll be praying for you and your decision. Love to all.
OOOOO good luck! I hope you get to have a Vbac! That must be a really scary thing! I will keep you in my thoughts!
Well, you are getting closer. 26 weeks, wow time is flying by. I wish you the best of luck for the delivery.
I don’t get it. Why would YOUR getting an epidural make the DOCTOR more comfortable? And why is her comfort (mental or physical) more important than yours? Is there a safety issue? What is her reasoning?
sounds to me like maybe…your dr would rather you didnt have a vbac but opted for the csec…i was in the same position as you, baby boy was breach and my water broke so csec. then with bug i really wanted to do vbac…sadly she was getting too big and they talked me out of it, but it was a god-send. bug was born weighing 9.3 and had the cord wrapped around her neck 3 times ! healthy baby is worth it no matter how you get there
i do hope it works for you , i know it meant alot to me to be able to try. Congrats on a baby girl 
lucky mama!! oh, and thanks for the tips on slings, i do use one , love them for all my kids 
big on baby wearing 
A cord around the neck is not necessarily life threatening. My youngest had the cord wrapped twice around her neck and once around her chest going the opposite direction. We had a natural birth. The cord was not a problem.
Oh, and the baby was 9.6 lbs.
But your right. A healthy baby is the most important thing.