comes at a price! A sore, time consuming, anxiety ridden price but one well worth taking! We checked into L and D on Tuesday and Derrick quickly checked right out-puking as he left! Poor D was so sick and really wanted to be there for his girls so he made the trip down but only lasted about 5 minutes before he was vomitting and curled over in pain. I sent him home (and am glad he made it in his condition) and played the waiting game on my own.
They hooked 'us' up to the fetal monitors and for 3 hours nothing happened. There were 2 Mommies on the floor delivering that took the Dr's attention so I was bumped back and didn't actually have the procedure until 1:30 after an IV was started and an injection given. I realized that I should probably check in with D and his frantic text's made me feel awful about waiting so long to check my phone!
After the injection I felt miserably jittery and my heart was pounding which were the appropriate side effects but after you add that to 3 hours of waiting and no husband I thought I was going to lose my mind. Dr Schaeffer was so nice though and my nurse Cindy and medical resident Maggie were absolute life savers. Dr Schaeffer used the U/S machine to determine the position in which baby girl was laying and Maggie kept the doppler on my girl nearly the entire time and her heartbeat never waivered. The Dr was able to successfully turn her by picking up her back end and then gently pushing her head at the same time and almost immediately she flipped herself back to breech. It looked like she was going to break through my belly and it made me almost want to vomit watching her in slow motion turning back to breech knowing that we would try to turn her again...
(to be honest it hurts and is very uncomfortable but I kept focused and had a great support team and a very kind Dr.)
The second time the Dr was able to get a better grip on her back end and move her (ever so painfully slow) and she held her head down for a few minutes and finally our girl miraculously stayed down after figuring out she had so much more kick room when she was positioned the correct way! I was so relieved it was over and we just stared at her on U/S as she happily kicked away and got used to her new space.
I was hooked up for another hour to the monitors and finally was discharged at 3:00 completely worn out and tired. I was shocked at how much more comfortable it was to have her in the head down position-I have been uncomfortable and it has been almost painful when she moves and it had a lot to do with her being in the breech position (I thought I was just working too hard and carrying around a 2 year old too often).
I came home starving after fasting for 18 hours and exhausted but a personal pan pizza and cheesy bread helped give me some much needed energy-D on the other hand looked horribly sick and was miserable.
I slept pretty hard that night and very comfortably and made it to work on Wednesday a little sore but grateful that everything was back to 'normal'.
I just got home from a biophysical U/S and another UAR (uterine artery ratio) and she is perfect. She is so active and still in the head down position (Hallelujah!) and although the UAR is still high they are not at all worried about it after they measured her breathing rate, heartbeat and movement for 30 minutes. It was a great U/S and it was fun to just sit back and watch her move about without them having to take measurements.
WE ARE SO HAPPY and SO READY TO MEET HER NOW! Hopefully we continue to avoid a c-section and everything progresses naturally.
We now are just patiently waiting and excitedly anticipating the near future.
Thank you so much for all the texts/phone calls/emails/prayers and posts of encouragement. It really meant a lot to us! and take it from us-try not to 'google' everything because every situation is different and other people's opinions can make you more anxious than you need to be!
