I had an OB check-up this morning, and the little rascal is still breech! Its head is up above my navel. I had a feeling it was in this position because what I've assumed is the head often bulges out of my stomach when the baby is stretching, and if I cup my hand around it, it's round like a little head. Although I guess that could have been the rump too, ha ha.
I've got one final ultrasound next Wednesday, which will mark my 36th week. My doctor said if the baby is still breech, I'll have two choices - 1) have them try and manually turn it into the head-down position; 2) skip that step and schedule a C-section for 39 weeks (these days they won't deliver a breech baby naturally in most cases).
I've had two co-workers recently deliver breech babies via C-section, and in both cases they tried to have the baby turned but the attempts were unsuccessful.
Not that I'm looking forward to labor, but I've been telling the baby to turn so that I don't have to recover from major abdominal surgery. But in the end, truly I just want the baby delivered in the safest way possible, whether it's naturally or in the operating room.
I guess we'll know more next week!
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I wouldn't like being on my head either, so I don't blame him/her:)
I won't lie, C-Sections are no fun, but at least if you get to schedule it, you won't have to go through the crazy long labor just to find out that you need surgery.
Hopefully the baby just does a flip in the next week!
I agree with both of you - I wouldn't want to be suspended on my head either, so I can hardly blame the baby for wanting to be right-side-up. I'm no good at yoga because of all the "head down" positions that make the blood rush to my brain :-)
And if I have to have a C-section, I would much prefer that it's just scheduled than go through 30 hours of labor only to have them wheel me into the operating room because my baby's butt is too big to fit through my pelvis...
My wife had two C-Sections and wouldn't have wanted it any other way. It is so much easier to have the delivery scheduled. Just make sure you start walking no more then 24 hours after surgery. The only downside is that because of her scar she will never be able to be an all nude stripper.
Oohhh... I never thought about it that way - guess I won't be paying for daycare through my stripper earnings!
Oh, Tania..you cal still be a stripper, some crazy people are into the C-Scars! (at least that's what I tell myself!)
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