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@Ash: Aw man! How did it get ruined?! ...do we count as friends or do we get to know? ;P but look on the bright side - BABY CLOTHES!!

I had my blood pressure check up appointment today and numbers are good! 122/84, so no complaints from my OB so woohoo! Also, the weather is so amazing today, it's perfectly breezy & like 72 degrees, I swear I feel like a new woman. It's crazy how much the heat affects my mood

@Ash: YAY!!! Your husband knows, right? What was his reaction??

@Ash: Aww, congrats :). Baby clothes are so much fun to buy!

@Ash: Congrats! Yah for Team Pink!!

@Ash: Am I left alone in my Team Green status?

@Ash: wait, @chitownro: are you still Team Green?

So we had our 3rd tri ultrasound today with MFM to check growth. Baby is measuring 30w6d (I'm 30w4d) and right on track for being a 7.5 lb baby (DS was 7 lb 7 oz). Everything looks good and she is proving to be just as stubborn as DS already! We couldn't get a good 3D profile of her. Oh and the kicker is little stinker did decide to move from her transverse position to a BREECH position and the tech basically yelled at me to get working on getting her to turn (umm how was I supposed to know she is breech?!). I will be interested to hear what my midwife has to say about that in 2 weeks and I'm also skeptical on seeing how she is going to turn in there...her head is all the way between my breasts and her legs are all the way down by my pelvic bone and to the back (tech had to put the wand under my back on the side to see the feet). They also said she had a good amount of hair already!

@Ash: Yea I don't really remember them making a big fuss with DS, just everytime she felt he was always head down and in position...stinker just never wanted to come out

@ms.janedoe: I've read some stuff here and there on spinning babies before, but assumed things weren't an issues because when I asked my midwife 2 appointments ago she said she was no longer transverse...hope your baby stays put!

@NeekieRose: You look cute! That's a funny pic.

My first baby was breech. They didn't recognize it till the appointment two days before I hit 37 weeks. They attempted a version (where they push from the outside and try to turn him) at 37 weeks. It was unsuccessful, and DH and I tried everything we read about to try to get him to turn. I had a C section at 39 weeks and it was fine. If I could do it again, I wouldn't have tried the version - it didn't hurt (I had spinal anesthesia) although it was uncomfortable at times. It just felt very invasive, I feel weird about the way they were pushing and pushing on him from the outside.

Here is what we tried:
acupuncture
burning this special stick near my toe
shining light low in my pelvis (to get him to chase it)
playing music low in my pelvis
the pose @NeekieRose has illustrated for us
yoga (I do a lot of yoga anyway but tried to focus my practice on the inversions that are ok for pregnancy)

Ummm.... may have tried other things. But he was very comfy with his head wedged right up under my ribs. I feel like my whole existence became focused on getting him to turn in those last couple of weeks, and in retrospect I wish I would have just accepted it because I had an awesome experience with the c section and everything turned out perfectly fine. Let me know if you have any questions!

@shellio: That is kind of the philosophy I am going to take. I don't want to put so much into trying to get her to flip for her to either never flip or to flip and then flip right back. Worst case scenario is a scheduled c-section in the 39th week? That doesn't sound like the most horrible thing ever....

@NeekieRose: Thanks for the info! I think my midwife will take a stance sort of like yours. They are rather hands off office (even though she is with an OB and delivers in the hospital) and she doesn't get worried/excited about much and tried to keep you at ease, which is nice. Yes, I do feel her move, but like you I don't feel flips at all and the movements I do feel are subtle like a hand or foot brushing not a full on kick or jab. It was the same way with DS, which I thought was from my anterior placenta, but he was head down the whole time so maybe he just never did flips either

@shellio: @NeekieRose: That is how I feel too. I'm not into the idea of a version and just have a feeling she isn't going to turn. I don't want my last weeks with just DS to become about getting the baby to turn and not enjoy this time with him as much as I can. Also, I was breech and my mom's OB tried to manual turn me during delivery by placing his hands inside her. After he turned me, I turned back sideways and came out with the cord wrapped around my neck. My midwife already said we are not doing anything like that when my mom told her the story after we learned the baby was transverse at 18 weeks.

ETA: If to comes down to a scheduled section at 39 weeks she could be born on my birthday! 39 weeks would be 11/15 and my birthday is 11/14 The only concern I have about a c-section is DS is so obsessed with my belly and likes to lay on it (even pre-pregnancy).

@Ash: Aw, YAY! Well, you found out and didn't really want to and I didn't find out and really did want to, so I guess it's even. HA!
@Mrs. J: I'm still sorta team green! Well, I have two guesses for a girl, but nothing substantial.
@anbanan15: @shellio: I have to say that I swear by chiropractic work for getting breech babes to flip. It probably doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's pretty dang awesome. Tractor Girl was still breech at 32 weeks and I knew she had plenty of time to flip yet, but I didn't even want to think about the external version/scheduled c-section discussion (for health reasons, I will absolutely do whatever I can do to avoid making a c-section necessary, since I of course knew I wouldn't be able to find anyone with vaginal breech birth experience and I was going to have a tough time even getting my doctor to allow me to go into labor on my own before sectioning), so, since it doesn't hurt anything and I needed to go anyways, I started going for weekly adjustments and the Webster Technique and literally on the way home from my second appointment and 34 weeks, she started these HUGE movements that I had never felt before. She kept it up for 24 hours, to the point where I was definitely having some intestinal distress because of all her rearranging my insides. But at my next doctor appointment a couple of days later, she was definitely head down and it was nothing more to worry about. Not that I was really worried, but I wanted to be proactive and give her as much help as I could and she gave me the favor of going down easy.
This time, at the u/s I had to check for high fluid levels, Cricket was already head down, so I assume s/he still is. From what @ms.janedoe: posted, I *think* s/he's LOA, but might be ROA, can't quite decide. S/he has a little while to switch to LOA, lol.

@Ash: Eeepp So that's how the beans were spilled? Err. Well at least you get to shop a little before she arrives. Any good finds? I"m having real diaper trouble lately lol. I may have gone overboard on NB diapers since we don't actually need them, but the girly prints....

@NeekieRose: I think that picture is FANTASTIC! I will probably be turning upside down at some point too, but I"m also accepting that she just might not turn. Either way a healthy baby at the end is all that matters.

@Ash: Ugh that stinks. People make comments like that all the time and it's so frustrating. Still not sure why the tech would have printed that specific picture though, especially considering you were team green. Out of all of our u/s we have never had a tech print any boy/girl part pics. I'm sorry you have to keep it from your mom. My mom and I are the same way and I would probably have told her already, but she wouldn't tell anyone else if we asked her not to.

Yay! BG's are our favorite pocket. We got a mint green and pink feather and flower headband for NB pics off Etsy. I'm debating if I should try and find a matching cheesecloth/stretchy wrap to go with it for pictures or what I want to do there.