The simplest thing to talk about is that yesterday I woke up with bad arthritis in my left hand and couldn't make a proper fist all day. Today I have arthritis in both hands (all in my knuckles) and it's hard to even use my left hand fully.
Ok, now the crazy stuff. The day before my 38th week, I went to the chiropractor and she said she's nearly 99% sure the baby flipped to breech. She wanted me to tell my midwife, but I didn't want to tell anyone. I just wanted to see what happens. So, the next day I had my regular checkup with my midwife and I walk into the room and an ultrasound machine is waiting for me..... I asked why and she goes "don't you remember, we talked about doing this". No, we said if you found the baby was breech a few weeks ago, we would start to monitor - but they weren't. So I'm assuming my chiro messaged my midwife and gave her a head's up.
Well, the ultrasound very clearly showed that fire-baby was/is breech. I just started crying. My midwive had a list of names ready of OBs in the area that do vaginal breech births and she hinted at that there is a midwife that will also do vaginal breech births.
The options that were presented to me were:
- Stay with current midwife:
- Have a scheduled c-section
- Come into the hospital crowning and have a vaginal birth
- Try to flip the with an EVC
- Go to one of 3 male OBs that do vaginal breech births
- Go to the new midwife
I cried a lot more and further discussed my options. At the end of the appointment, she basically tried an EVC and the baby wasn't budging. So we are assuming that scheduling a full one wouldn't turn out much better.
I had originally planned on going back to work, but after the news I decided to take the day off - plus after the EVC I assumed I would be pretty sore (which I was!). I ended up going home and making a few phone calls to get the ball rolling on moving to a new practitioner.
The OB's office I called was a typically OB office - so F them.
I had a nice conversation with the midwife and luckily my midwife called her earlier and gave her a heads-up. She seamed very confidant and easy to talk to. So, I was able to scheduled an appointment with her the next morning - in which we basically did a consult.
Dan and I decided we want to go with the midwife, but nothing is final right now - we are influx. And while I originally wanted to go into labor this weekend, I now hope I wait longer until we get this all sorted out!
I had an ultrasound on Friday morning to determine the exact position of the baby, the cord, and the placenta. That information needs to make its way to the new midwife (which is hasn't) so she can confirm that she can take my case. But based on my consult everything looks good.
In all of this, I've been trying to keep in touch with both midwives and keep my doula, photographer, and Kate in the loop on the changes! That's been a lot to juggle - and a hard switch from when just a few days ago I thought I was at the point of just costing into the finish line.
Another change is that even though this midwife will do a vaginal breech birth, since she doesn't have hospital privileges, and no birth center around me will take my case, I will have to do a home birth! Which is crazy since that's what we originally wanted! But now I'm nesting at full blast since the birth and birth photos will be here!
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