Everything is good with Sir Chance. He is very active again today. I have started my weekly BPP (biophysical profile) ultrasounds. This just measures growth, the amniotic fluid, and checks the heart rate. I see the doc every two weeks; so this week is ultrasound only. Doc appt is next week.
The DH is stressing about me getting the hospital bags packed. He wants me to do it now, so he doesn't have to run back and forth to the hospital and house if I go into labor early. So to appease him, I started packing the bag last night. Not the baby bag, but at lease mine/his. Just have toothbrush, hairbrush, pillow, blue tooth speaker, and house shoes (when they arrive) left to put in the bag. DH asked why I don't just put a regular toothbrush in the bad instead of the electric one; I'm not sure I remember how to brush my teeth with a regular toothbrush!! I've been using an electric one for so long......
A friend of ours with an 8 month old has graciously volunteered to donate breast milk to us for at least the first 3 months of Chance's life. She said she may go longer if it's not interfering with her sleep or schedule. We are so appreciative and thankful she is doing this for us. She currently has 1000 ounces in her freezer waiting for pick up. Going to try to get it this weekend. She also gifted us clothes and a moby wrap. She mentioned she had some formula as well. Since she won't take replacement bags or monetary reimbursement, I am going to bake her a cake (she loves my cakes) and give them some home grown beef.
I have had Braxton Hicks a few days. Nothing serious and it never lasted long. Felt like menstrual cramps; super low in my pelvis and pressure on my bladder. It felt like my uterus was very small again.
At the last ultrasound (last week) Chance had turned face down. So now his position is head down, face down, or occiput anterior. OA is the ideal position for birth. Occiput is the back of the babies head. Anterior describes the front of the mother's pelvis. There are other positions the baby can be in for birth, but OA is the best. OP or occiput posterior, is when the back of the baby's head faces the back of the mother's pelvis (head down, face up). This is where back labor comes into play, because the baby's head is pushing on the mother's tail bone essentially. Transverse is where the baby is laying sideways. This is bad. This requires a c-section if the doc can not turn the baby into the head down position. Oblique is when the baby is diagonal. With twins, this position is ok, but a singleton makes for a long, hard, and painful labor which normally results in a c-section. The final position is breech. This is when the baby's bottom is downward toward the pelvis. This will def get a mother a c-section. So far Chance is exactly where he needs to be for me to have a vaginal delivery.
We interviewed pediatricians this past week. Interesting. They do their best to sell their practice to you. Very salesmen like. Like with my OB, when you ask a question they don't know the answer to, they blow it off. I get they are "experts" in their field, but not everyone is ignorant; and some people have legitimate questions. I'm not sure they are used to educated questions.
My folic acid has been making me vomit the past week. I couldn't decide if it was the aspirin or the folic acid, so I finally started taking them separately. Yep, it was the folic acid. I have been instructed to stop taking it for a week, then start again, but only one. We are so close to delivery, the extra folic acid probably really isn't doing anything to help the baby. Most, if not all defects are closed by now and the extra isn't really necessary.
I can't believe after 5 years of trying, we will have a baby boy in arms in 6 weeks. That's crazy!!
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