Thankful Thursday

Yesterday I got some good news which I thought would have to be today's Thankful Thursday. I am thankful that at my doctor's appointment yesterday the midwife confirmed that the baby is no longer breech but is head down. If you are not familiar with uterus lingo- breech equals bad. Essentially the baby is in any other position than the one that would make for an easy delivery - that being head down position. Most babies are head down by this time in the pregnancy because there is so little time left, the baby has much less room to move around and the head down position is usually the most comfortable position considering the shape of the uterus etc. At my 32 week appointment the baby had his/her head in my ribs which was not good. Even though there is still some time and room left for the baby to flip, I learned only 25% of babies at 32 weeks are still breech. I got a little worried because a breech birth (which equals OUCH) or a scheduled c-section (which equals OUCH plus bad recovery plus 15 times the residual pain) was not on my playbook. I did all that I could to encourage the baby to flip by sitting, angling myself in various positions that according to my thorough google search encouraged breech babies to get with the program.

Late that night 2 weeks ago I felt the baby doing some crazy acrobatic flips in side and it hurt a lot - but I imagined it might be trying to flip to heads down since I was feeling a lot of discomfort on the sides of my abdomen as if it was being stretched outward as a baby who didn't fit sideways tried to be sideways. So I used my hypnobirthing relaxation techniques to stay relaxed and let it happen. From then on I have felt the baby must be head down because I feel the little rhythmic hiccups it has are felt really low by my hip bones. Which by the way, I love to feel. Of all the things you experience in pregnancy - feeling a baby have the hiccups inside you makes you melt and hug your tummy because you cant wait to hold that little body in your arms next time it has the hiccups because everyone knows that babies with hiccups are the cutest thing in the world.

I feel so grateful that the baby did flip itself around - It makes me feel that much closer to the end. I prayed about it and decided to put my trust in the Lord about it. The baby is in the right position, I am getting practice contractions, I have 6 weeks left (which is totally nothing) and now the baby is big enough inside me that I can easily recognize body parts like bums, legs, feet and back from the outside. This is an exciting time in our house.

Before I finish I must make a side comment (totally unrelated to the rest of the post) about how exciting it is that the New Moon movie comes out soon. Yeah for handsome, romantic, mythical creatures!