Exciting week! I got my Xmas wish!!! My placenta moved....well it doesn't really move....just grows in the opposite direction away from my cervix. So I am all cleared for a vaginal delivery. To be cleared it needs to be at least 2 centimeters away from the cervix and mine was 3.5 away. SUCH good news! And to check on the placenta progress I had my last ultrasound. Baby looks JUST like her sister these days. It was pretty crazy to compare ultrasound pictures. Daddy R couldn't tell them apart! And she looked so sweet all cozied up in my uterus. She was sleeping the whole time but kept reaching for the umbilical cord and then would start sucking on it.....looks like she is getting ready for some nursing! Her head remains down and she is super low in my pelvis. In fact, they had to actually try to push her up a bit to be able to see the placenta properly. And she just did not appreciate that at all! I'm really hoping for a February baby. Nothing against March. But February just sounds so much more appealing to this whale of a Mama. The other information we found out is that Baby girl is measuring pretty small--like 34th percentile. I am pretty sure her sister was like in the 90th. Kind of strange....but I have heard other cases where they have said babies would be small, or large, and they just popped out the opposite. So we will just wait and see! Everything looked healthy! And because I am not labeled a high-risk pregnancy this time around (for some unknown bizarre reason that always weirds me out) I don't have another midwife appointment until 36 weeks aka FULL TERM! Almost there....end is finally in sight so it seems!
Last week I talked about how I could barely walk due to back/pelvis pain. Well, I went to my chiropractor and my SI joint has popped out of place on my left side. This is the joint in the pelvis right next to the spine. I now get to wear a really cool brace to hold everything in place (that was sarcastic). BUT the brace actually feels amazing on and I think I am healing (with the help of daily yoga! YAY me!). The doctor said at least my baby has a clear exit strategy now. My pelvis has opened up so much that sometimes I actually feel like the baby is going to fall right out. And when I walk my pelvis clicks. I just hope the pain continues to improve!
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| 32 Weeks |
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| Baby Girl #2 (picture of on the left she is sucking on umbilical cord) |
We had monthly ultrasounds of Emilia to check her growth. Every ultrasound they measured her between 50th and 55th percentiles, including the day she was born. Well, she came out 9lbs 70z. They don't know how to measure babies with any sort of relevance whatsoever.
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