Well my OBGYM says I'm a good candidate for a procedure called External Cephalic Version (ECV), during an ECV my obstetrician will gently (yeah right!) move the baby by pressing their hands on my abdomen to turn the baby. I'm tall and skinny and the baby is thin (noodle shape) so easier to turn the baby then a chubby baby (meatball shaped), hee hee hee. Interesting to know that only 3% of babies breech! Just my luck ;)
I have watched a video of it on YouTube so at least I know what to expect.
Takes about 30 mins and I remain in the hospital (BC Women's) for 2-6 hours to ensure that the baby is doing fine. There is less then 1% risk involved and I'm not worried at all. More worried about the fact that my 200 pound Dr. has to bare down on my little body to turn the little shit! LOL. Cause the women in the video looked like it was very uncomfortable but I'm so not wanting a c-section and I know that will help me get through it. That and the fact Pete and my Sister in-law Ann will be there to help me through it. You also get it done in the hospital just in case they need to do an emergency c-section but Doc says he's only had it happen once in his whole career.
So the big day is Thursday April 17th at 10am and if for some strange reason Peanut decides to flip back into a breech position (unlikely) I have a c-section date for April 30th at 1pm.
Here is a link to the video I watch on an ECV, there is a Huggies commercial then the short video.
http://www.babycenter.com/2_lisas-birth-turning-a-breech-baby_1320895.bc
I know all of you wish us well and we very confident that Peanut will be a good baby and do as Doc wants.
I'm excited and nervous but I also have an inner calm about it, right now anyhow, wait till I'm in the hospital, ROFLMAO! I'm sure Ann will have her work cut out for her. Cause deep down inside we all know I'm a total freak, LOL!
I'll see if we can get Pete to video a little of it to put on the blog just to make you all laugh.
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