I’m feeling kind of ambivalent about all this so far. Greyman thinks it’s just because I won’t trust anything at least until the viability/dating scan (which is next Wednesday - I actually wish it was a little later when I would definitely be 7+ wks but it was too busy to get me in Thanksgiving week).
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And I’m like well yeah why would I get excited if my personal success rate is like 1 in 3 before a good 10+ week scan
It was also easier to obsess over pregnancy all day back when I had an office job where little to nothing was expected of me.
I don’t really have a lot of symptoms other than just being tired, but I haven’t had a ton previously so not much to compare to.
We’ve got a heart beat! Baby would not cooperate to be measured and I’m less sure about my period/ovulation situation this time around, so I get to see it again next week
I have processed some more of the appointment with the new OB. I need to decide if I’m going with the midwife practice at this hospital or just a straight up OB.
She didn’t refill my zofran. She said something vague about birth defect concerns when taken in early pregnancy so. Now I’m freaked out a little
Instead she prescribed the pill that’s unisom and B6 together, which she said works better than taking them separately. I’ll be the judge of that. Also it was more than $100 WITH insurance. DH picked it up for me and talked to the pharmacist about the cost and they found a random coupon and also a $300 prescription segment of our insurance that would cover part of the cost but not put it toward our deductible? What the fuck is that? Never heard of it and I’ve been on the same insurance for 7 years. Cool. So he paid $35 instead. Which will make it a little easier for me to justify puking it up
It did work better for me, hopefully same for you and you get relief. It was $$$$ but worth it bc it meant I could work and kind of take care of my dog.
I’ll see if I have my PDF. I did the exercises and my baby moved but no idea if it was baby or the exercises. The OB’s description of him turning the baby sounded unpleasant. I also had firm discussions with B1 about needing to move.
I assisted on an external version (ECV) during nursing school. It is intense- I tried to mimic the doc’s pressure, mom and OB let me take a try, and it’s definitely more than your brain wants you to put on a pregnant belly. Brain is like “override! Delicate! Override!” But that being said the mom was able to breathe through it, it’s clearly uncomfortable but she told me at the end “that looked worse than I expected but didn’t hurt as much as I expected”. That said, we failed to spin the baby.
In pregnancy I did a bunch of spinning babies to try and make Latte not be OP. (Sunny side up- so, head was down, but facing the wrong way) Didn’t work for me alas.
I didn’t try the procedure that bracken joy described. It was offered but not recommended by my doctor for my specific circumstances and Pipsqueak didn’t turn on her own.
I ended up having a very positive experience with a scheduled C-section if you ever need a positive story about that.
A lot of the stretches on there feel good on my back anyways so I’ll be doing a mild version for the next few weeks and see how aggressive to get later on.
@Sunflower I would love a good scheduled c section story! I haven’t gotten close to making a birth plan yet but the way I feel now is I would rather have a scheduled c section than try to labor with a transverse or completely flipped baby. I saw a meme once that if your baby is born feet first for a brief moment they wear you as a hat! I thought it was so silly, but aside from that I’m not sure the recovery or risks would be worth it.
I’m a firm proponent that all birth is natural birth so I’m really open to whatever is best for me and baby.
The TL/DR is that most of the C-section recovery horror stories my friends have experienced have been after a long hard labor (like 24+ hours) where you are EXHAUSTED going into an emergency surgery and mom or baby’s health are a concern and so the surgery is as fast as possible. Trying to recover from that sounds so hard and I really feel for people who have experienced that.
On the other hand, my C-section recovery was a big deal of course but I walked up 3 flights of stairs to my apartment when I was discharged and drove myself to my first post-op with my OB. I have pretty high pain tolerance but was only on ibuprofen after the first 24 hours. I had wraps to help stabilize my core and I moved slow but it was all ok. It was honestly on par with what many people I know went through with 2nd or 3rd degree tears/stitches or quite possibly an easier recovery.
Technically my C-section was an emergency rather than scheduled because my water broke 18 hours before my appointment and they had to get me into the OR sooner than planned. Pretty sure any 2am C-section is coded and emergency lol.
scary moments
Pipsqueak was breach for a reason. She had a double nuchal cord that wasn’t picked up in multiple scans and there were some very tense moments in the OR trying to get her out. She had a first apgar of 2 (wasn’t breathing) but recovered very quickly and had a second apgar of 8. If we had tried a vaginal birth it could have been devastating and definitely would have ended in an emergency C-section.
Overall 10/10 would do again (I’m not having more kids though).
I have a bicornuate uterus, and luckily for me the only issue that caused was that both of my babies were breech.
I didn’t try ECV either time because my OB didn’t have any success stories for a bicornuate uterus, and I didn’t want to go through it with a low chance for success. So, I ended up with 2 scheduled c-sections at 39 weeks (they did not want me going into labor with a breech baby). My main feeling each time was that it felt relaxed - I checked in with plenty of time for each person on the team, anesthesiologist, resident, various nurses, OB, to come talk to me beforehand. The person performing the surgery was my regular OB so that also was a degree of comfort.
I was able to do 10 - 20 min of skin to skin both times, and then handed baby off to my husband while they finished up with me.
I had smooth recoveries both times - I mean, it’s major abdominal surgery so the first few days are rough, but pretty much I was fine and off of pain meds within 2 weeks.
The one downside (other than, you know, major surgery ) was that I produced no colostrum and was unable to breastfeed until my milk came in. I did formula for about 2 weeks and pumped, but by a month in I was breastfeeding 100%. I had a lactation consultant speculate that the lack of colostrum was due to not going into labor but that may or may not have been the reason.
That’s so interesting about the colostrum and breastfeeding! I had colostrum right away and my milk came in within a couple days. I wonder if that’s because I went into labor at 38.99 weeks, less than 24 hours before my scheduled C-section so my body was “ready”
) was that I produced no colostrum and was unable to breastfeed until my milk came in. I did formula for about 2 weeks and pumped, but by a month in I was breastfeeding 100%. I had a lactation consultant speculate that the lack of colostrum was due to not going into labor but that may or may not have been the reason.