Yesterday, officially I hit 35 weeks. Most doctors want a baby to wait until 37 weeks to be born, considering anything before that premature. I have had a doctor who felt 36 weeks was full term. So we are very close to each of those markers!!
While I have a team of midwives overseeing my care and I LOVE THEM!! I ADORE THEM! There are certain things putting me in a slightly higher risk category which requires I deliver at a hospital. I am not fighting the hospital requirement. Having personally been through some scary moments with the previous deliveries, I'm really okay with it. In another lifetime though, I do wish I had had midwives and a birthing center as an option the first time around, they are just wonderful people! Due to delivering in a hospital, there will be at least one OB on call available to assist if any concerns or complications develop, however, leaving the midwives to tend to me as long as things go smoothly. Yesterday, I met with one of the OBs to review my pregnancy and to have an ultra sound of their own.
He's looking right at us!
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Good good good news! He is measuring right on target, not large, which has been the biggest concern for all in causing complications. He is still very much confirmed a he. Which is great because last weekend I went through the girl clothes and gave most of them away to others. Fluids look good, heart looks good, everything right on target!
And all this inferno heartburn I have been having, looks like he has hair too! You can see the white wisps at the top of his head.
Then I got to sit down and talk with the OB. Oh how I love her too! If I couldn't have had midwives, I would have wanted her! And she said everyone in the group felt the same as her. They think we are right on track to have this baby without an c-section and fully support my decision. YAY!!! That is such a relief. She did go over the scary 1% serious complications that could happen. Some of the things she wants me to consider so that if something does come up we don't have to waste any time with prep work. But said, she just wants me to be aware and really has full confidence that she will be doing no more than sticking her head in to say "HI" at some point, most likely after the baby is here.
The bad news, I seem to have already forgotten her name. It might be Hannah. I'll have to see if I can find a directory of names to the group of OBs.
A parting shot...his foot, clearly kicking me.
Also his foot but a profile shot and his big toe is sticking -->
These pictures can be very hard to tell anything!
Many of you don't know, but even when Sweetness was born, nearly 6 yrs ago, as I began to push, the on call OB whom, I had never met, walked in and demanded to know why I wasn't scheduled for a C-section based on complications from my first birth of CJ. At that moment though, her heart rate had dangerously dropped, she needed to come out NOW and pushing was the most efficient option. She was also my favorite birthing experience, aside from the medical personnel and their students. Four years ago when I did have the C-section, there were several factors and possible outcomes, of which only one was positive. That morning, an ultra sound was predicting him to be 8lbs 15 oz. Ultra sounds can be off, by over a pound, either way. We ended up going with a C-section. He was 8lbs 15oz.
Each hospital has their own policies about delivering. We have chosen the one that seems to be best at letting moms have their babies on their own natural time table and fully supporting the mom's choices about the birth. Eric even knows where this hospital is, he was able to go along yesterday!
Sweetness has asked that we not talk about the baby because it gets her too excited.
Our little man makes sure that everyone he meets knows that his mom is having a baby, that he will call Buddy, and any other details they will stick around and listen to.
CJ is excited but does not like me joking about her learning how to drive in case I need her to drive me to the hospital.
They all want to be roommates.
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