We have been given our first lesson from our daughter. She will do what she wants when she wants. No matter what we want. We are a mere three weeks away from our due date and Elsa had been quite comfortable in her snugly womb, in breech position! We had spent weeks trying everything that we could do to get her to flip. On Monday we had another ultrasound that showed she was still happy where she was.
We decided to schedule a procedure called External Cephalic Version, commonly just called "Version," for Thursday morning. This procedure is an attempt to manually turn the baby. It requires being admitted into labor and delivery, getting an IV, and taking a medication called terbutaline to relax the uterus so that the Dr can manually turn the baby from the outside. It has about a 50% success rate.
We checked in to North Florida Regional Hospital at 6am. Got all the paperwork and questionnaire stuff done, got hooked up with the IV. Then at 8am Dr. Brazzel came in to start the procedure. Before they start they do an ultrasound to figure out where everything is like the placenta, baby, and umbilical cord. Well he made a funny face when he started viewing the ultrasound, and come to find out she had flipped on her own!! Sometime between Monday at 10am and Thursday at 8am, she turned head down. We all had a good laugh. The nurse asked us all when was the last time we had seen her in breech, and Dr. Brazzel and I both said "Monday!" Then he said that it wasn't like she just turned breech, that she had been like that for weeks. The likelihood that she would turn on her own at this point was very small.
We are grateful she has finally turned, which gives us an even bigger chance to avoid a c-section and try to have her naturally. Now, if she will just stay head down! :-)
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