I’m now 28 weeks pregnant and my bump seems to be growing at a nice steady pace. This girl is a very active one and constantly on the move, even keeping me in a little discomfort at times. However, never again will I complain about being woken in the mornings or kept awake late at night after my scare on Tuesday. It was around 11am when it first dawned on me, I hadn’t felt any movement since I had gone to bed, which was very unusual. She moves all the time and most frequently in the mornings and late afternoon through to bed time. I know her movement patterns as it’s been the same daily for the past 10 weeks. I then tried drinking ice cold water and even a spoon of ice cream to trigger a kick but nothing. I called up my midwife for some reassurance but couldn’t get through so decided to phone up the hospital where I was asked to come in and be checked. I spent around 30mins sitting on a reclined bed in the day assessment clinic having the babies heart rate monitored and pushing a button every time I felt any slight movement. Typically, as soon as I had the pads strapped around my bump she started moving. I was then lucky enough that they could do a scan straight after which also confirmed all was well. I feel so relieved having the extra reassurance and very glad I made the decision to get checked out to put my mind at ease. I do have a home droppler which I used a couple of times in my first pregnancy, but opted not to use it in case I couldn’t locate a heart rate, or worse, mistakenly found my own and then stupidly put off going in to get checked properly. The findings of the scan showed baby is measuring 1 day behind the estimated due date I was given at 12 weeks and is currently lying in a transverse presentation, with her head on my right side. After my 20week scan I had breech presentation in the back of my mind, but now she is lying transverse I find myself googling like crazy, it’s all I can think about despite knowing that baby is still moving around a lot just now. As you know, if the baby isn’t head down by 36 weeks my decision for homebirth will not be supported my local midwives, resulting in my ultimate fear, a HOSPITAL BIRTH! Still plenty of time to move into a head down position though (or so I keep telling myself). Although with each day and week that passes, I am aware the space inside my uterus is getting smaller, making it more difficult and unlikely she will turn. I am now following all the advice and recommendations for turning a transverse baby on the ‘Spinning Babies’ website and doing all the positions and exercises daily to help aid a head down position, it gives me plenty to focus on. I’m using the forward-leaning inversion 5-7 times per day for around 40seconds. I will stop this when baby moves and I feel kick location change. The purpose of this position is to create room in the lower uterus. Helping baby to turn. Yup, I am one crazy lady worrying at this stage about baby positioning, but I would rather feel like I’m actively doing something than just waiting around and hope for the best. I will do everything in my power to ensure the best chances of having another positive birth. I strangely feel like I owe it to this baby to give her just as calm and gentle entrance to the world as my son received. Max didn’t get pulled from me screaming, I picked him out the water gently myself. Babies birthed in water don’t tend to cry (something which I don’t think much people are aware of). He was very alert though and immediately gazing up at me looking quite content. Think I have a fair bit of work to do, getting my head around the idea of planning for other scenarios, like a hospital birth / C-section. YIKES! Other than the hospital visit on Tuesday, all is going well. I don’t feel as tired as I did in the first and second trimester and feel like I am now on the home run and count down already. Just need to get that darn spare room gutted and decorated along with buying baby essentials. Almost 1 week down of the kids summer holidays, 6 weeks and a bit left of entertaining a 3 year old solo......SOMEONE HELP ME! Ha-ha. Although this week hasn't been too bad, we have done some fun things, involving a trip into town, lunch dates and also a visit to the circus with friends. This morning was eventful. I thought it would be a great idea to try and film ideas for a 3rd trimester stretch out incorporating some yoga moves, however max had over plans as you can see from the photo below. Blooper video to be posted on the FB page very soon! Sharon x
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