Homebirth General Discussion #21

[Lady-bug]

Haha sorry Tegam!!

We've got our birth plan meeting this week!! Woohoo, although at this stage I feel like I want to have a birth instead of a meeting about it. SO. Much. Pressure Surely I can not stay like this for another 4+ weeks....

[Tegam]

I thought that ladybug but MW today said baby is head down but not engaged at all.... Lord you mean this gets worse LOL

[Tegam]

Dot face my babies are too ugly at birth to name them after what they do or don't look like hehe!

[HotI]

i like Archie!
Ernie, Oscar, Finley

i had 2 boy names and 2 girls name picked each time, but when DS was born i decided i didn't like either name. it took us another 12 hours or so to decide on a name. the girls were named soon after birth, but DD2 s second name took a few days.

are you kids really ugly babies Tegam? poor kids

[Tegam]

Just horribly long and skinny hotI. Look like skinned rabbits. Only ugly until the full fat boobie juice kicks in then they are cute

[Eenee]

Congrats Sterla!!!! A bit slow I am, hope you and Bub are going wonderfully.

Tegam: ya never know this Bub might surprise you and come out short and fat haha.

[kellbell]

Boo hoo my placenta is 0.5cm from cervix at 33 weeks , so upset its even closer Than at 20 weeks
Feeling lost now I wanted this home birth so bad
Bubs is transverse as well just to complicate things

[Tegam]

Hello Kellbell, i see you are on that home birth Facebook group! I saw your post this afternoon! baby being transverse meaning nothing at 34 weeks. Not sure about placenta, what does your MW say?

[kellbell]

She's not happy :-(

[kellbell]

Yes I'm in the homebirth Facebook group :-)

[Tegam]

So she's not happy but what's her plans? Thoughts?

[kellbell]

Just waiting for a meeting she's had 4 babies in 2 days delivered
So she couldn't talk long to me .
She sounded more negative than the OB to be honest !

[kellbell]

She knows how much I want this homebirth and how hard I've had to fight so far so I'm sure shell give me every chance .
I saw a pic on her page of one of her deliveries yesterday and it made me quite sad that my placenta might stop me having my homebirth
I don't quite know how to deal with it all or wrap my head around a c-section yet :-/

[Tegam]

How are you feeling this afternoon kellbell. Have you talked to your MW?

[kellbell]

Yes we had a big talk she wants 2cm and baby head down to even attempt a home birth
I am terrified of being cut open/medical procedures/needles - ill take a hospital birth if I can just birth bubs vaginally
It's so up in the air !
I had post natal depression with my son and was a dark 6 months I never want to go back into that kind of headspace ever again. I just don't know how to deal with a c-section when I have easy births it
Just seems so wrong!
Now I'm rambling - i really appreciate all the support so much

[kellbell]

I just need 1.5cm come on uterus ! Get stretching

[forshelby]

Oh Kell I had no idea you were in this position. huge hugs! You can pm me any time. I have everything crossed for you to have a beautiful homebirth. xoxo

[Jennifer13]

Hmmmm.. 2 cms sounds pretty arbitrary and exactly what my ob wanted for me with DD1. My placenta was measured at 1.7 cms away at 37 wks and I had a c/s two weeks later. It was the wrong decision. Who's to say it wouldn't have been okay or at least, okay to try a vaginal birth? Baby had engaged fine and it was three weeks shy of my EDD. My next two babies came at 40 weeks. I had no bleeding or issues during pg.

I read a great home birth story of a woman with a low lying placenta on Gloria Lemay's blog. That should've been me!

http://www.glorialemay.com/blog/?p=338