Unfortunately turning the baby was not successful, the Dr. was able to easily move his head side to side but could not get his bottom up high enough to get a full turn. Baby boy's heart rate showed absolutely no sign of stress but for me it was impossible to relax so my muscles were fighting against the Dr. as well. Because of that the only other option she offered was to have me get the spinal (basically an epidural) so that way I would feel nothing and my muscles would relax enough to maybe get the baby to turn. At first this was what I wanted because I still had it in my head that there would be a successful turn and Michael and I would leave and enjoy the last few weeks of this pregnancy waiting for labor to start on its own. I had even signed the papers consenting to the spinal. However neither Michael nor I felt entirely at peace about that decision and we talked as we waited (We also prayed with Grandma and Aunt Lavonne who were able to be there for me for moral support), and came to the conclusion that we just felt like God was asking us to stop trying to turn him for now. Immediately after making that decision together the nurse walked in to start prepping me for the spinal and we just said, "oh change of plans, we don't want to do that today after all."
So for now we are home, baby still has time to turn on his own. I think we will still need to schedule a C-section and we are meeting with my nurse midwife this Wednesday to talk about that. If that is what we do, the Dr. has said since I would be getting a spinal for the C-section anyway, she can give it one more try to turn the baby before the C-section. It would obviously be awesome if he turned on his own before that day, the Dr. is of course not hopeful for that but I am.
My only prayer now is for God to be glorified through all of this, this is most definitely His plan and not mine :)!
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