A Stubborn Baby

Cecil is not cooperating!  

For the past week I have been trying anything and everything to get him/her to flip.  All the usual tricks I've told you about in the past, plus I even had my chiropractor do acupuncture.  Today was what I had been calling the last resort- external cephalic version.  I had high hopes for this procedure.  It's basically the doctor manually turning the baby.  

I had talked to people who've had it so I was prepared.  Let me tell you it was intense!  They don't give you any type of pain medicine and it's performed in the c-section operating room.  I was prepped and ready to go in case of an emergency c-section, which was kind of scary.  I couldn't really see my stomach as they did it, which was probably a good thing.  I was just focusing on my happy place as my doc and midwife were fist deep in my stomach trying to turn the baby (that is how Seth described it).  At one point I looked at Seth's face and it was so animated I decided looking at him was not a good idea.  The first way they tried to turn the baby almost worked but then it got to a point where the heart rate dropped (a sign that it was most likely cutting off the cord) so he had to stop and go back and wait for the heartbeat to go back up.  Then they tried turning the other direction and didn't get as far before the heart rate started to drop again.  After the procedure they monitored the baby for several hours to make sure everything was okay.  I'm okay with the results.  My goal, of course, was for it to work.  But if it didn't, I would be happy just to leave without an emergency c-section.  I really didn't want to be knocked out for the birth and that's what would have happened.

The next step is to just wait.  I could schedule a c-section but I'm not ready to do that.  I want to give Cecil more time!  I am still holding out hope for a flip...on baby's own time.

Meanwhile, we are ready!!  We had all of our bags packed and the car seat installed for today, just in case.  Last weekend we finished the nursery and I got all the clothes washed.  My dad did a fantastic job redoing the furniture!  I'm just waiting on one piece of wall art.

My energy is diminishing and moving around is getting more difficult, but I'm still not to that miserable point where I say "I don't want to be pregnant anymore".  


I'm excited to share some of the pictures from our maternity photo shoot with my good friend Cindy of Impressions Photography!