I have a prenatal check up this afternoon at 4:30pm with my OB Dr. Hayton. He is bringing in the Midwife today to introduce me so that if all goes according to plan and I want to have my more "natural" birth I can have a relationship with a midwife already established. I was looking on the kaiser website at my appointment calendar and noticed that the Midwife they are bringing in for consult is actually Dr. Solomon who did all my infertility stuff. YES!! I freaking love her. She loves holistic approaches so I know she will totally support me wanting to use the tub for pain management, and trying different positions to birth in other then just laying flat on my back. This makes me really happy... because there are lots of techniques I want to try. So now I have two very awesome providers who I am VERY comfortable with. Dr Solomon (the midwife) will oversea my labor and delivery assuming that I am able to have a natural vaginal birth plan (and not a scheduled c-section). In the event that something isnt going to plan, or a c-section is need then Dr. Hayton will take over and perform whatever is necesary. I am excited. So I am going to try to go all natural, but dont mind if I need the epidural. If vaginally just isnt working out... well then I will have a cesarean delivery. Like I said... everything is just go with the flow. My ultimate goal is healthy mom and healthy baby... so whatever means it takes I will do it.
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I am getting more and more excited as the time goes by. I havent really mentally dealt with or prepared for birth/labor. Like what to ACTUALLY expect and what I will really be doing. Last night I was laying on one sofa, and David was on the other and had my shirt up because the baby was moving a bunch and I was showing David. I am almost positive I felt her knee or elbow. It came up, and stuck out of my stomach like a teepee, and then slid over a little and subsided back down. If she wasnt my daughter, and it wasnt my stomach... I would have been totally grossed out at it lol. Anyways, so we are laying there across from each other on the sofas and watching Adella do her yoga stretches (lol) and David is just like "Can you believe that in a few months your going to give birth!" lol. I was taken back that he was thinking about that. I dont even really think about it. I mean, I think about the logistics (where, when, with who, tecniques...) but never that actual concept that I will be birthing this little human into the world from within my own body. Its a weird thing to think about. It actually gets me a little teary eyed. She is our daughter. We have each given a piece of ourselves to the Lord to create this tiny little soul who he has placed into my womb and given me the ability to nurture and cultivate and soon will join us out here to start her own journey in life under the care of us, her parents. AHHH! I love life.
Funny pregnancy story AFTER the fact:
I went to TGIFridays last night to eat dinner with a friend who is going through a rough time. Well, we talked for like 3 hours and I drank like 4 tall glasses of water and probably about 4 tall strawberry lemonaides. I peed probably like 3-4 times while I was there. The last time being LITERALLY as I walked out the door, i stopped and went again. Well, I get in the car and merge onto the freeway which of course if PACKED at 6:30pm on the 5 south. UGH! I get stuck in the middle lane, in a dead stop. Its been about 5 minutes since i used the restroom last. All of a sudden the baby does a flip (that gave me butterflies like a loop in a rollar coaster) and I have to pee so bad it HURTS! I cant freaking get off the freeway because I am stuck at a dead stop an 2mi away from the nearest exit. I start to panic lol. I start frantically adjusting positions and moving the seatbelt to try and aliviate the pressure. Well, no such luck. I then decide my pants are making this situation worse so I unbutton and unzip them and then start rubbing my stomach to get the baby to move. NOTHING. Well, now the traffic has picked up again. So I am going as fast as I can and basically BEGGING the baby OUTLOUD to place move. I kept saying things like "Adella... Mommy needs you to move please. This hurts. Do you want mommy to pee her pants in the car and the car smell like pee?? You will have to ride in this car Adella. Pee smells bad!!" lol. So Im zooming, beggining the baby to move, and poking my tummy trying to encourage her to move. I make it to my exit and things are getting better. I am focused, and Im confident I can make it home and pee. Well, just as I pull into my track she does another summersault feeling move and its on. I couldnt believe it, i had to pee now even worse then I did before lol. So I jump out of my car once its in park leaving the door open, i get the front door open leaving my keys in it, and realize as i start to stumble that my pants are around my ankles (remember... I had unbuttoned them and unzipped them earlier lol!!) and I hear the neighborhood kids who were playing basketball outside cracking up at me. No time to give them the stink eye. I race to the restroom, well, hop to the restroom, and let me tell you... THAT WAS THE BEST PEE OF MY LIFE TO DATE! lol. As I am using the restroom I feel her move completely over. Little stink bug... you freaking wait until I am PEEING to move off my bladder.
Then I had to do the walk of shame back outside to my car where I had left the door open, and endure the comments from the little kids lol. I heard a lot of "granny panny" comments. Oh well... thats better I guess then them knowing that I wear garments, not granny pannys lol. Im sure this is just a peek at the things to come lol. It was pretty funny afterwards, but while I was in the situation... oh man. Not funny.
I have a friend that was due 12-25-2009.
Well... its now 1-14-2010 and she is still pregnant.
The doctos have decided that her due date was off and that she is just now going to be due on the 17th. Talk about ultimate let down lol. You prepare for the 25th of december and end up having to go "overdue" about 4 weeks!! Yikes.
Soon her son (David Michael) will be born though and I will get to hold a tiny new baby and practice for when Adella comes. Yay!
hahaha.. omg cassandra you crack me up! "DO you want the car to smell like pee? your going to have to ride in it."
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Ya, we have already started negotiating consequences with her haha.
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