Ouch! My band baby is BREECH!

[Goannabanda]

I had my 39 week appt today... ...my band baby, aka The Bump has turned breech. :babycry:

Today at my 39 week appt, it took the Ob a little longer to find the heartbeat, and when he did it was up higher in my belly than normal. Then he said my cervix is still high, long and firmly closed. No way near anything happening there towards labour. Finally, an u/s confirmed that The Bump has it's head lodged up under my right ribs. It's bum is down on my left side, with feet poking out to my right. Nothing in my pelvis at all apart from amniotic fluid. :dayum:

I should have known something was up after a sleepless night last Wednesday and then all day Thursday when my ribs and hips were killing me. I'd bet a million bucks that was when The Bump turned around. Since then, I've had almost no hip pain, but intense rib pain, nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite - which I now know is due to the pressure of my upside-down bub on my ribs, stomach and gastric band.
A breech baby is no fun with a gastric band - the pressure is intense! I was starting to worry that I'd slipped my band, but now I've seen The Bump's head on the ultrasound pressing up on my stomach, I know why I can feel my band in all it's detail. Grrrr!

The Ob won't try an ECV (turning procedure), he says they are too risky. It's too late for that at 39 weeks anyway from what I know of them. He said not to try / bother with doing anything at home to turn bubs - probably won't help anyway at this late stage, and the risk of harming the bub is too great in his view. http://forum.birth.com.au/images/smilies/frown.gif

All I want to do is cry. http://forum.birth.com.au/images/Smilies-MSN/dft004.gif But I know that I've got to get my head around the implications this brings, and to start mentally preparing for a whole different birth scenario to the one I was gearing up for.

So now I am no longer trying to beat an induction, but a c-section, which is being booked for sometime next week. :crap: I am allowed to try for a natural delivery, providing the following strict rules are met:



No induction
Labour starts spontaneously this week
The Bump is full (i.e. frank) breech
No epidural
Continuous fetal monitoring during labour
Be prepared for large episiotomy

So please, send me all the bub turning and labour vibes that you can muster. If not for my delivery, but at least for my band comfort!

Thanks in advance. :thumb:

[Jachut]

Oh Anna! I had a breech baby my third time (althought I didnt know it till very late) and it was everything I always hoped banding would be, lol. YOu know, eat one tablespoon of food and throw up. Bend over to pick up the washing and throw up. Take a deep breath and throw up. Live on Quickeze for horrid hearturn Eliza was so high up and out of position this time that she pressed on my liver and I developed obsetric cholestasis, I was sooooo yellow and itchy I was reduced to paying the boys $1 each to scratch my legs with hairbrushes and Id sit up half the night with my hands inside those silver wine coolers you keep int he freezer, roflmao! It was hideous. I lost over 10kg that pregnancy becuase I could hardly eat a thing. I just put the differences down to having a girl versus boys.

It was the first question I asked on lapband talk - will banding be like that, eat half a cup of food and feel full? Everyone said yes, and it was, minus the itching and such.

My cervice did ripen and open, lordy knows how, but I always walked around from about 36 weeks half dilated, that's probably why I had a three hour first labour and a 40 minute second. I was paranoid I'd have Eliza on the floor at home, but it turned out to be a hastily arranged elective caesar as I didnt discover she was breech till my 39 week check up either. Sorry to say, that's what comes with being a bit over normal weight, they cant feel the baby so easily and he just couldnt tell, although the huge difficulty in finding a heartbeat should have maybe been a giveaway (I had to be monitored because of the cholestasis). She was so stuck up in my rib cage, they even had trouble pulling her out via caesar and she had really band birthmarks, which faded eventually.

But all was fine, and I dont even think about how she was born now, unless something like this reminds me. She just is.

When i found out, I went straight back to Mum's and bawled, I was so hysterical they thought I'd just found out something terrible like my baby hadnt survived. It was just a shock. I guess I'm lucky to have had two wonderful natural deliveries, but sweetheart, it just isnt worth getting so upset about. Your longed for baby is going to be delivered safe and well, and that's what matters. Its great if you're allowed to try, but just try to be calm about it - what will be will be and honestly, if you dont choose to, you are not going to look back and regret how the birth took place, you're just going to be loving your child.

[christie]

I have heard that a lot of people have had success with acupuncture to turn a breech baby. It's non-invasive, relaxing and it just might do the job. Check it out!!!

[dolchanmom]

We will be thinking about you. I have never had a breech one but I did have 2 c-sections. I actually really liked the c-section but I also dont know anything differant. And no they will not give you a tummy tuck at the same time no matter how much you beg. LOL LOL

Brandy

[supergirl]

Well Anna I was born breech. The hard way! Natural! My mom was with her guardian angel and god saw to it that I was born healthy. I am very fortunate! Technology was nothing like it is now. But my mom knew that if she would not have taken the chance on pushing me out against the doctors advice...

Technology is a wonderful thing! Everthing will be great. Just remember everthing happens for a reason.

[MoOrLess]

hugs and prayers Anna...thankfully you are fairly near due date.....whatever the doctors think is best will be best --- and soon you'll hold your new little sweetie in your arms! I will be praying hard that all goes smoothly for you.

[PhotoNut]

She's here!!

"Alice Violet born 4 May, 7:05 pm. 2.296kg (5lb 1oz). In special care to fatten up. Mum recovering. All are overjoyed. :)"

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[dolchanmom]

Ohhh. So so so cute.

Brandy

[christie]

yay! Did she ever turn?

[PhotoNut]

Yep, she did turn... just a few days before she was born. :)

[Jachut]

Oh, what wonderful news. Anna lives near me, I'm going to do some investigating as to what hospital she's in....

[Goannabanda]

Update -

The c-section was supposed to be 7am on May 4th. At my OB appointment on May 3rd, she had turned around, so the C-section was cancelled and I was booked in for an induction in the afternoon of May 4th instead. However, our little band-princess ended up being delivered via a c-section at 7pm on May 4th, exactly 12 hours later than the original booking.

The c-section was required anyway due to fetal distress even before the induction process began. Between the monitoring suite and operating theatre, our little monkey turned to oblique breech. Ouch. She wasn't going to come out on her own, no matter what, LOL.

Then, during the c-section, instead of her feet coming down to meet the doctor, her hands arrived. So he turned her around (which felt like a rugby scrum inside my belly, LOL) and delivered her head-first.

It took me a while to come to terms with having a c-section, however given her poor condition at birth, we (including the OB) were both shocked and thankful that she hadn't gone through a natural delivery. Our daughter was diagnosed as having Intra-Uterine Growth Restriction (IUGR). Most likely as a result of my hypertension during pregnancy and possibly also poor placental nutrition during late pregnancy. She was also later found to have hip displaysia which is thought to also be related to poor late-pregnancy growth.

It took both of us a while to recover from the whole thing, but thankfully we are both doing well now. We are comforted and thankful for the access to top quality medical care that we have here. Also, the love, support and prayers of those around us, including many of my B2G family, helped us without measure. xoxoxo

[503-250]

So...does she look like me?
Does she have my eyes?
My beard?
Are you going to call her Ralph?

[MoOrLess]

congrats - and wow you and your baby girl have been through a lot. So glad things are better. And glad you are back HERE!

[christie]

So...does she look like me?
Does she have my eyes?
My beard?
Are you going to call her Ralph?


Hee Hee! You're so funny!

[Goannabanda]

So...does she look like me?
Does she have my eyes?
My beard?
Are you going to call her Ralph?

She's so much like my hubby that I'm not even sure that I'm the mother. :eek:

We nicknamed her Piglet or Possy-poss (as in Possum) because she was so small. They're almost bears...


congrats - and wow you and your baby girl have been through a lot. So glad things are better. And glad you are back HERE!

Thanks Mo, it feels good to be "home". : )