Monday, August 9, 2010

To everything turn, turn, turn....

Soooooooo, i'm now 35 weeks and baby is breech. I have one week to get him to turn or i will have to have him turned in the hospital in an "external version" procedure. I have been trying all kinds of exercises and yoga poses to try to get him to turn and so far no success. I have been preparing myself to try to have a natural birth for most of my pregnancy and i will be so extremely dissapointed if i have to have a C-section, the farthest thing from my natural birth as possible, and so cold and emotionally sterile. So External Version is a procedure in which a doctor will try to manipuate the baby from the outside by pushing on your belly and manually making the baby turn. However, this only has about a 65% sucess rate, and it has a pretty good risk of starting your labor because it is really painful, so that you have to have an emergency c-section anyway. They actually check you in to the hospital in a C-section room as if you were getting one and you have to get an IV, and fill out all the C-section paperwork and everything! Of course it is our choice as to whether or not we want the procedure done, but if we dont try and he stays breech the entire time i'd have to have a c section anyway. I read that 80% of babies that are breech in the last month will stay that way.
So cross your fingers for me that this little guy will decide to turn, and that we can know what to do if he doesnt!

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