Saturday, May 24, 2008

Heads up, baby!

About two weeks ago 2e was head down, consistently, all the time. I always felt the same movements in the same spots and when I did belly mapping (courtesy of spinningbabies of course) it gave me a surprisingly anterior and vertex position (meaning, baby was facing my spine, and head down) (and the reason I say surprisingly is because A) I have an anterior placenta, which babies like to face towards, making them posterior, and B) because Boo was posterior, even without an anterior placenta).

Anyway, the day after I did that assessment of position, I woke up with a hard head in my ribs, and it's been there ever since.

I've been thinking about that vague possibility of delivering breech, and at first it seemed a little intimidating. I mean, I've always thought about the vague possibility of delivering breech, I even read about it in great detail during my first trimester (maybe just a feeling?), but now I'm thinking about the slightly-less-than-vague possibility of it.

And I actually feel pretty good about it. It's a variation of normal. I've visualized the birth as vertex and breech, and feel absolutely no anxiety either way, just peaceful.

Part of me thinks 2e will be born breech, but another smaller part of me is thinking 2e will flip at the last minute, because I had Boo's head in my ribs at this point as well.

So either way, I'm fine... we'll just have to see!

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