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@LazyLightning: I keep getting an early feeling! I think its because DH is on edge about LO coming early since he was a 32 week preemie himself. Watch this baby be two weeks late now

A funny related to DH being anxious about the baby coming early - We are enrolled in Bradley Method birth classes, and we covered nutrition in our last class. This apparently frustrated him because he pulled our instructor aside afterward and told her "This baby is coming soon! I need to know about BIRTHS, not food!" He was very stressed and agitated that we were talking about servings of boiled eggs rather than pushing positions. It cracked me up.

@LazyLightning: did you call your doctor?

I keep thinking I'm going early too but I have no idea why. I was two weeks late and I was first born. DH came on his due date.

There's so much to do still! My shower is a surprise and I have no idea when it is. Presents are beginning to be purchased from the registry so I know the invites have gone out. I don't want to wait much longer and look like a marshmallow though!

@LazyLightning: ah, that's still scary though. When's your next appointment?

@LazyLightning: I would definitely try the strips. I'm glad it hasn't happened again though.

I have a dull pain right underneath my right buttock area. It bothered me every time I tried to sleep on my right side last night and I had a tough time walking at work today. I'm going to try to walk it out with two miles now.

@LazyLightning: happy birthday!!! It's nice that the baby is trying to give you a present but too bad it's not jewelry or a nice purse!

@LazyLightning: I keep getting an early feeling, too, but I think it is just wishful thinking on my part. I think 6 or 7 weeks sounds so far away! But 4 weeks sounds pretty soon so I like that better.

@grizz: That is so funny about your husband! It is a little late for them to be teaching you about nutrition, our babies are almost here!

@jh524: We are doing an "empowered childbirth" class so I don't know much about hypnobirthing. But I do know from our classes that whatever comfort measures seem appealing to you will help a lot in labor. We had to practice being in labor yesterday "Contractions" meant holding a piece of ice in our hand for about a minute and a half, but when I used comfort measures (music, massage, different positions, closing my eyes and focusing on happy memories) it was much easier to endure.

P.S. - I know that holding a piece of ice IN NO WAY compares to real contractions.

@Espion: Welcome!!! 4,300 miles? Where are you moving from/to?

@Espion: Welcome!

@Espion: Welcome!

@jh524: No experience, but had a friend who half relied on it, half relied on the Bradley Method. We are doing the Bradley Method. She was successful! @Sea_Bass is a June hypnobirthing mama.

@Espion: Wow! Good luck with the move!

@LazyLightning: I'm starting to have some nausea and food aversions again. Ick.

Last night was an adventure... baby is breech, and I was having pain from him trying to turn, contractions, or both. I work in OBGYN and they were about to send me to L&D to be monitored, but I insisted on going home to lie down and re-hydrate. I guess that did the trick, but it scared me and my husband to death. Baby is still breech, and I am so frustrated. My natural birth plan is just slip sliding away as the weeks go on and he doesn't turn... and it doesn't help that I read in a book last night that one reason a baby can be breech is neurological problems. I am so stressed

@grizz: How scary! I really hope baby turns for you. Has he been breech the whole pregnancy? I recall hearing that if baby has been in different positions and just happens to be breech, there is less likelihood of there being problems with the baby resulting in the breech presentation, and that it's more just a preference baby has (unfortunately) developed.

@LazyLightning: My midwives have been feeling for positioning for like the last six weeks and thankfully she's been head down at every appointment so they think she'll stay that way. I'm not sure if that's universal with all practices. I'm 34 weeks tomorrow.

Oh, the crazy thing the midwife told me today when asking about any preterm labor signs is that I only really have to watch for it for one more week. She said that even though I'm not full term until 37 weeks, they don't really try to stop labor after 35 weeks. Just makes it all the more real that there will be a baby here soon....

@LazyLightning: Both Leopold's Maneuvers (manual position checking) and an ultrasound have showed him as breech. You can actually sometimes see his head as a bulge where my ribcage meets in the middle. But he's gone breech/head down/breech a few times so maybe he'll flip flop again!

@Revel: He has flip flopped a lot, so that makes me hopeful! He was breech at 31, vertex at 32, now breech again at the end of 33. He was trying awfully hard to do *something* last night, and I'm hoping he was trying to get head down. My Leopolds this morning was inconclusive - we can't tell if its his head or butt we feel between my right and left ribs.

A coworker tried to make me feel better about the whole thing this morning and I just broke down sobbing on her... I'm sure I scared her, but since we work in OB I know just how small my chances of him turning are getting each passing day.

ETA - my contractions turned out not to be real ones, so no pre-term labor thank goodness! Just bad Braxton Hicks caused by stress/dehydration we're guessing

@tlcbaby: that is awesome! Thank you.

@Grizz The Miles circuit sounds like the spinningbabies.com stuff as well. Might be another thing to check out for more reading if you haven't already.

Also, I looked up whether breech presentations are associated with neurological deficits...short answer is its not. Apparently this is "old knowledge". In retrospective studies there seemed to be a correlation, but in studies that followed babies from birth forward, there was no differences in their neurologic condition/functioning. There is no direct correlation - causation. The weaknesses of the scientific literature.

@swedishfish: Definitely in other places, but not my lips. Were you able to find anywhere if that is a symptom others have had?

@swedishfish: Well my fun symptom in the past week is my hands fall asleep at night while I'm sleeping. And my right arm and hand continue to hurt throughout the day and feel kind of weak all the time. REALLY hoping that one doesn't stick around!