The baby is breech and I am trying not to freak out now at 34 weeks. He isn’t always breech. He keeps moving around but he won’t settle into that ideal head down and facing the pubic bone position. So, I’m doing a whole lot of THIS
http://spinningbabies.com/
and daily headstands. I also crawl around like a crab, do cat/cow, have Maia sing to the baby, avoid sitting back or sitting in cars at all, and I ask him to turn around all day long. Let me not mention that I keep complaining that my belly feels like it is going to pop. He sometimes twists around so that I think a leg will explode from my side or a head or a something-else. I hear that I shouldn’t panic and there is enough time. The last resort is an external baby turning procedure that supposedly hurts but is fairly effective.
Sadly, no doctor will touch a breech delivery in the DC-area (or pretty much any US-area) these days. There is one doctor on the verge of retirement who does it when he can at a nearby hospital. (No surprise but he is from the Ivory Coast.) This used to be a common practice but now it’s not even taught in medical school. The family friend who is taking care of Maia during the birth was a home breech birth and her daughter was a vaginal hospital breech birth. There are options for me but I don’t want to lay them out here and I don’t really want to think about them right now. I just hope the little guy turns and stays there….
Meanwhile, I’m huge. Maia is the most excited 3-year-old you will ever meet and insists that she will be only one to hold the baby, put him to sleep, and change him. I am also getting ready to leave. He will be born and we will be actively moving on almost immediately. No word yet about where we will live in Kiev but I am hoping for a nice apartment next to a huge park in the center of town. I am still getting up pre-dawn to study Russian. I’m grateful for Rosetta Stone but I am sure I will show up and have no clue how to communicate. It would be nice to have a live person rather than a computer software program. Anyhoo, I should be able to get by at the most basic level.
Now- turn baby, turn baby, turn baby….
