Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Curtain up or Down?

I will be 37 weeks tomorrow. 
Well the last couple of weeks have been a little extra stressful with finding out at 36 weeks that baby boy is breech. I hear the words breech and automatically my mind assumes C-section is imminent, which it is if he doesn't turn. However as people keep reminding me there is still time for him to turn so perhaps I freaked out a little too early, but when you have your midwife telling you "try chiropractic care, try Moxibustion, start thinking about having a Version done, check out Spinningbabies.com" it does light a fire under you to "get to work" making baby turn. 
But that isn't the point of this post, the point is (and maybe it's just the acupuncture talking) after a couple weeks of feeling like I'm on a roller coaster ride with my emotions feeling in control and then feeling upset and out of control, I am done. I am finally free and okay with whatever the outcome of this baby's birth. Birth is very important to me, I have a very strong opinion about how I feel it should happen and when I meet other women who want to experience it the same way that I would choose to experience it, all I want is to help them and offer advice. I have come to terms with the frustrating fact that the hospital will not allow me to attempt a normal breech birth and am seriously considering that a C-section may be in my near future if this boy doesn't turn. 
I realized that I was so focused on my goal for this birth (natural and drug free) that I forgot I was even having a baby! Ultimately there is this beautiful baby boy I have been carrying inside of me for almost 40 weeks and at the end of all of this he is going to be here. Does it matter how he gets here? Yes, to me it does, that won't ever change. But what has changed is that it's okay if he arrives by C-section. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why a baby won't turn, God knows if this is one of those cases and I am trusting Him with it. 
Yes, I was born by C-section, that's a very personal story and 100% not relevant to what I am experiencing now. 
I realized that all of this stress created by worrying about a C-section was causing me to not enjoy my last few weeks of pregnancy, (because yes these last few weeks can and should be enjoyed). But now I have changed my thinking. Today for example I got to go to the chiropractor, I am seeing one who does the Webster technique that was designed for the purpose of helping breech babies turn. It is supposed to be pretty successful. After that I got to go have an acupuncture treatment done in conjunction with something called Moxibustion, also a technique to turn breech babies, supposed to have a very high success rate. The acupuncture was great! I was incredibly relaxed and my mood improved, although I actually woke up in a pretty good mood today. After that I got to go swimming in a generous friend's pool! She was at work so she left the key under the mat for me! My mother in law was watching Zelda while I was doing the acupuncture so when I got home we all went to the pool and I just got to swim and do headstands and all that while Zelda and Mom played! It was great, I absolutely love swimming and while part of the purpose was also to help baby turn, I just got to enjoy it! 
So my point is I am enjoying all of these things I am getting to experience in these last few weeks of pregnancy. Not to mention allowing God to use it to build my faith! If that doesn't happen through circumstances like this then going through it is pointless. 

Songs speak to me and I heard this one today and I feel like it reflects how I feel right now so here is a link to that!

Casting Crowns "Somewhere in the middle"

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