39 WEEKS AND BABY'S HEAD IS DOWN

Yesterday, Silvia and I went to Wilder State Park and took the classic Prego Pictures.  We figured that  we had better do it soon since she is 39 weeks now and could go into labour at any time.  I know this post is a long one but its a good one.

At  36 weeks our little girl was what is called Frank Breech where the baby is in the pike position with the bum bum down.  At this point in time you want the baby to be head down.  With the baby breech you become a candidate for a C-Section.  Silvia was sad because she really wanted to try and have a natural vaginal birth. As the baby gets bigger is more unlikely that the baby would be able to turn on it's own.  Our midwife (Kate who is amazing) transfered us back to our O.B. to do a external cephalic version where they manually turn the baby.

 We went in a birthing center at 6:30am where they monitored the baby's heart rate and placed Silvia on an I.V. to try to increase the fluid in the placenta.  At 8:00am our O.B. and two midwives placed their hands on her tummy and proceed to try and turn the baby. I held Silvia's hand as she focused on her breath trying to relax as much as possible.

They tried one way and then the other way, but the baby was not budging.  After 15 or 20 minutes they stopped and said that it wasn't going to happen.  Silvia having been so positive and visualizing the baby turning down was heart broken.  She was trying to hold back her tears, but as she ask Dr. Dorherty if she could try one more time later on the tears started to flow.  Seeing how badly she want this Dr. Dorherty agreed to try it at noon.  Silvia was left to rest and have more fluids pumped in through an I.V.

At noon everyone came back.  Silvia slipped away to the bathroom where she offer a little prayer asking for a little miracle that the baby could go head down.  As she came back in the room, one of the Midwifes, Morgan sat down and had a little heart to heart with Silvia.   She let her know that as hard as they were pushing the first time the chances were unlikely that the version wouldn't work.  She said, "Maybe there is a reason the baby is breech that is how the baby needs to be." Silvia nodded her head.

As everyone gathered around the table Silvia looked at everyone and said, "I know you guys can do this. I'll be fine so do what you need to do."  With that six hands were placed on her tummy and they began one way and then another.  Its seemed like it wasn't going to work again.  Silvia was holding my hand taking deep relaxing breaths with her eyes closed praying and visualizing the baby turning.  Then about 5 minutes into it hope was sparked as the baby went further than it had before.  They quickly checked the heart rate and the baby was doing fine.  They went a little more and then a little more.  With each step checking to make sure the baby was okay.

Then the baby flipped and went head down.  "I thinks its head down!" someone shouted.  "Yeah it's head down," someone shouted back.  They grabbed the ultrasound and checked and sure enough the baby was head down.  The room erupted with cheers and the next thing I know everyone is giving double high fives across the table like we just scored the winning touchdown in the super-bowl.  Silvia started crying again, but this time is was tears of joy. We got our miracle!