{32 weeks}
When I was pregnant with Tristan and with Piper, I felt like my pregnancies drug on and on and on. I couldn't wait to meet them, kiss them, dress them, lose weight etc! With baby #3, I know it is our last, I have to have a c section because of the abdominal surgery I had last fall and so when she does the c-section she will also tie my tubes. Knowing this is it, makes me enjoy each little {or big} kick and roll, it makes me slow down and enjoy the pregnancy and every little {or big} pound I put on. I'm not in a hurry and yet, here I am, 7 weeks away from meeting this little person.
I don't need anything. We have cloth diapers, we have clothes, we have a bassinet, I am going to breast feed so I don't need bottles. We are set. But it feels like I have a zillion things to do. Clean Piper's closet so there is room for baby's clothes, get a new double jogger because while 4 wheeling it with our 6 year old in it, John broke the front of it, the same day we got it! LOL! Finish Tristan's 1st grade curriculum, plan for 2nd grade so I am not trying to do that after baby gets here and probably 100 other things.
Ok that's really it, but nesting isn't kicking in and I think I'm going to turn around and have an infant at home before I know it!
I had my last little ultra sound the other day and the guy who did it randomly showed be a 3d image of baby's face! It was so weird, I've never seen a 3d image of either of the kids so it shocked me! From what I can tell this one doesn't look like Piper or Tristan!
{Baby was in the middle of yawning}
I'm super super bummed that I have to have a C-section, I wanted a water birth. My Dr said it was my decision but that her thought if I have a vaginal delivery is that I will most likely tear up high where they can't reach and I will end up in emergency surgery. I'm not in it to be a hero, I'd rather play it safe than sorry. But I'm still bummed! Have any of you had c-sections? What was your experience? What about those of you who had plans of a natural delivery only to end up with a c-section, how did you handle it?
There are lots of things you can do for a c-section, especially a planned c-section, to make it a great, beautiful birth experience for you and baby! Just because it's a c-section doesn't mean you don't have choices, although you may have to ask if the doctor, hospital are willing to do things a little differently from what might be their routine proceedure. Are you going to have the doula there that you had with P? I'm curious, did they tell you before your surgery last fall that c-section would be advised in any future pregnancies?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite c-section info/video ever. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5RIcaK98Yg
Molly that was an amazing video and definitly helps give me some ideas for my OB. I wish our health care/dr's were like the ones on that video. I'm going to talk to her about the immediate skin to skin and the vital importance of nursing within 30 minutes. I'd LOVE for them to drop the paper as the baby is being born so that I can see it! That would be so cool! I think Australia would be a great place to raise a family! I am not using a Doula this time. I totally loved my doula and I loved what she offered, but when it came down to it, I just needed John. I am thinking it will be the same this time around!
ReplyDeleteYes, they told me that future pregnancies would not be advisable. We were mostly sure we were done having babies and had even had the "snip snip talk" and then came baby #3! She said the decision was up to me, but if it were her vagina that she'd have the c-section. There is just a high risk of tearing the mesh that they put in and undoing everything they did in the abdominal surgery in September! I don't want a natural deliver and then a rush to emergency surgery where I couldn't immediately hold/nurse the baby!
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