Tomorrow will be a big day for me. I will be considered full term, having made it to 37 weeks! I am so proud and excited! It means if Rachel were born, she would be just fine! After everything we have been through, that is quite an accomplishment! Way to go, Rachel!
I am ready to meet my little girl. These last couple weeks have gone by so slow, especially since I have been getting stronger contractions. I have so many of the symptoms and signals that show labor is on its way, and I am still pregnant. I read many of the women who start showing these signs go into labor within days or a week. I have been dealing with mine for two weeks. Come on, little girl! We are so ready to meet you and you made it to a safe place! Hopefully, labor is just around the corner.
On Wednesday, I found out I am dilated over two centimeters. When I get to a four, they will keep me at the hospital. I have been getting stronger, more painful contractions. Apparently, my contractions just need to get longer. My OB confirmed for me on Wednesday that my internal scar for my c-section was done the preferable way for me to have my girl naturally. I am a candidate for a natural delivery. My doctor believes I have a 70 - 80 % chance of being successful at delivering her myself. The only thing we are worried about is her size. We haven't seen Rachel on ultrasound recently, but the last time we did, her head measured large. That could be an issue with trying to have her naturally. But I want to try. I want to go into labor. I am hoping to go into labor before July 30. She scheduled my section for the 30, and I don't think she would let me even try to have her naturally that day. I assume we would just go ahead and do the section. This pregnancy is concluding the exact opposite way of everything we dealt with when we had Josh. I am so blessed.
I have another appointment Wednesday. I will update again after that or when we have a little girl! Please remember us in prayer in the coming weeks because I am getting anxious. But I know my little girl is in God's hands, just like she has been this whole time!
Friday, July 13, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Almost full term and a lot of false labor
The title of today's blog are the things that are consuming my mind right now. First of all, today is the end of day 2 of my 36th week of pregnancy! What an accomplishment! Tomorrow I will basically be 36 1/2 weeks pregnant. And 37 weeks is considered full term. I will be there Saturday! If Rachel is born after tomorrow, unless she had a bad problem, she would most likely leave the hospital with us! Yay! I would really like to make 37 weeks, but if I delivered this week it would still be an accomplishment. I made it far: no preeclampsia, no pre-term labor, no bedrest, no steroid shots, and most likely no NICU!
All I can say is wow. I am so thrilled! I want to be happy and proud, and don't get me wrong, I certainly am, but I recognize this is nothing I did. God has been watching out for my little angel girl and taking care of both of us every step of the way. And in a matter of days or just a few short weeks, I will be mom to not one, but two miracle children. All children are gifts from God and pure miracles, but my two are especially.
The second thing on my mind: false labor. Yuck! I am experiencing it a lot. I wonder daily if I know when the real thing will happen. My doctor scheduled my repeat section for July 30, but if I go into labor before then we will have a baby. It doesn't help that my doctor said she didn't think I would last until the 30th. And it also doesn't help that I have a lot of the signs and symptoms that labor is approaching. So I start experiencing these things and think labor is just around the corner, and then come to find out, that unless my water breaks or I am having real contractions, then labor is not immediate (and apparently only about 15% of women have their water break on their own before they get to the hospital). All the other symptoms can mean labor is days away or still weeks away. Well, I have been experiencing my symptoms for two weeks on Wednesday, so needless to say labor was not very close. Hopefully it will be within a week or two. I do not want to wait to meet my little girl. I am so ready now, especially if I know she can come home with us!
Plus. I really don't want to go in for a scheduled c-section, even though that would be better than a surprise or emergency section like I had last time. My OB said if I went into labor on my own then she would let me try labor and if I could do it and wanted to then I could have a baby naturally. I want to try labor. It would be the perfect ending to my perfect pregnancy. It would make up for everything I missed last time. I would be the happiest girl in the world. There was just one thing we needed to know before we could make that decision: we needed to find out if my internal scar was vertical or horizontal. It appears my internal scar was done horizontally, which is what we wanted and which means I can labor. That was encouraging. I still need to talk to my doctor a little more about this, but I anticipate giving labor a try. I see my doctor again on Wednesday, so hopefully I will have some more idea about what may be ahead for me and Rachel in the coming days. I will update again after my appointment Wednesday.
All I can say is wow. I am so thrilled! I want to be happy and proud, and don't get me wrong, I certainly am, but I recognize this is nothing I did. God has been watching out for my little angel girl and taking care of both of us every step of the way. And in a matter of days or just a few short weeks, I will be mom to not one, but two miracle children. All children are gifts from God and pure miracles, but my two are especially.
The second thing on my mind: false labor. Yuck! I am experiencing it a lot. I wonder daily if I know when the real thing will happen. My doctor scheduled my repeat section for July 30, but if I go into labor before then we will have a baby. It doesn't help that my doctor said she didn't think I would last until the 30th. And it also doesn't help that I have a lot of the signs and symptoms that labor is approaching. So I start experiencing these things and think labor is just around the corner, and then come to find out, that unless my water breaks or I am having real contractions, then labor is not immediate (and apparently only about 15% of women have their water break on their own before they get to the hospital). All the other symptoms can mean labor is days away or still weeks away. Well, I have been experiencing my symptoms for two weeks on Wednesday, so needless to say labor was not very close. Hopefully it will be within a week or two. I do not want to wait to meet my little girl. I am so ready now, especially if I know she can come home with us!
Plus. I really don't want to go in for a scheduled c-section, even though that would be better than a surprise or emergency section like I had last time. My OB said if I went into labor on my own then she would let me try labor and if I could do it and wanted to then I could have a baby naturally. I want to try labor. It would be the perfect ending to my perfect pregnancy. It would make up for everything I missed last time. I would be the happiest girl in the world. There was just one thing we needed to know before we could make that decision: we needed to find out if my internal scar was vertical or horizontal. It appears my internal scar was done horizontally, which is what we wanted and which means I can labor. That was encouraging. I still need to talk to my doctor a little more about this, but I anticipate giving labor a try. I see my doctor again on Wednesday, so hopefully I will have some more idea about what may be ahead for me and Rachel in the coming days. I will update again after my appointment Wednesday.
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