In Her Own Time

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! :-)

Pinterest

Yes, I have delved into Pinterest, and I may be addicted. It's so awesome to see so many good ideas that I can implement myself.  But what I hate to see on Pinterest is a picture of your kid. Pinterest is for ideas, for sharing and more importantly for RE-sharing. Unless your kid is wearing an adorable pillowcase dress that you made and want to show it off so others can make it, why on earth would you upload a photo? I'm not going to Repin a photo of your kid.  You have completely missed the point of Pinterest!!

Let there be Floors!

Our new hardwood floors arrived on a large pallet today.  They are very pretty, maple driftwood, hand scraped, engineered hard wood.  I'm very excited to have them installed.  The installers start next Monday.  I do think we might be a tiny bit crazy trying to do this when I have 5 weeks left of pregnancy.  Talk about cutting it close!!

Turn Baby Turn!

Two weeks ago I had a doctor's appointment and found out that Elsa was in Frank Breech position. This is where the butt is down by the cervix, the head is up by the ribs and the feet are in her face. She is basically in pike position.  After doing some research I of course started to worry.  She could end up with hip dysplasia  and worst yet I could end up having a c-section.  A c-section is my worst fear.  I have never had surgery before, and I don't want to start now!!



After that I started trying all kinds of techniques I had read about to try to get her to turn: breech tilt, inversion, acupuncture, chiropractic for the sacrum pain, cold on the top/heat or music on the bottom. Anything to get her to flip down. 

Well we had our follow up doctor's appointment today and another ultrasound to show she is still breech. She has moved from Frank breech to complete breech. For some reason this makes me feel better.  I'm still trying everything under the sun to get her to turn. At our 36-37 week appointment they will try to do an external cephalic version (aka manually turn her from the outside), and if that doesn't work they will schedule a c-section at 39 weeks.

I do not want a c-section. So crossing my fingers she gets on it and turns in the next couple of weeks.

Comfort Zone

So I decided to break out of my comfort zone today and take an aqua aerobics class at the gym.  Things that made this uncomfortable for me:
1. I had to be in a bathing suit.
2. I'm 7 months pregnant in a bathing suit.
3. I'm 7 months pregnant in a bathing suit in front of people!
4. Thought I could keep my hair dry. ha ha.

Things that made it glorious:
1. I was weightless.
2. The stretching was awesome.
3. The other pregnant ladies were really nice.

More Nursery Projects

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on some more nursery DIY projects.  All of these I got inspiration from the internet for them.  And I love how they are turning out.

First, we have the mobile.  I took two different ideas and combined them into one.
                                                    Flowers                            Elephants

Mine

Then I found this really cute art piece on Etsy. For about 1/3 of the cost I duplicated it with some minor modifications. I used the same paper on this that I used in the mobile, so they match!

Etsy version

 Mine

And last, I wanted to do something with either Elsa's name or her initial. I found these letters and decided to just do one initial.  

Etsy Version

Mine

Slowly but surely things are coming together. Can't wait to have it all put together!

I might be overestimating my abilities

We had our first event in a series of 3 for February at work tonight.  I started it early at 5:30 so it could end at 7:30.  I am really exhausted after a full 12 hour day. I'm wondering how on earth I am going to make it through the Valentine's Dinner event that ends at 9pm, and even more Passport! I'm supposed to leave that one at 9pm and I will be 8 months pregnant, I just hope I make it that long.