HUGE Congratulations to MamaSpice!!!! So so proud of you hun, you have done a fabulous job, baking a beautiful sized bubba boy Brock , so so exciting to see these special little bubba's arriving safe and sound

Crumpet, it is soooo understandable that you don't feel comfortable at all, I wish there was something I could say that makes it easier, but hopefully with time and each week you go it will become that much easier. We are here for you for the good days and the not so good days xxoo

So glad that everything is going along ok JennaJayen woo hoo for the US piccies, we have quite a few as well, but my OB doesn't really take any unneccessary shots we have enough scans and see Flicker every week, poor little munchikin, I wish we didn't need so many, but the bonus out of last weeks debacle was that we got the 3D photos!

Hope everyone is ticking along nicely!

AFM ~ Back from my OB appointment so good to be in the 30's and my OB is pretty impressed that we are still ticking along

Results from todays appointment:
BP: 110/60 (Thanks to the Nifedipine)
Fundal height: 31
AFI: 15 - nicely in the normal range, but looks as though we have had our peak already, it has dropped 6 since my 28 weeks appointment, so she will keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't keep dropping
Dopplers : we are well below the 5th%ile, but we still have a good uprise in the flow which is keeping Flicker tucked up safely, but the indicators are starting to show that growth is likely to take a hit from this.

She didn't do a growth scan as I had one done last week, and she'd already done one the week before, but will be on the cards for next weeks appointment. Growth was slowing based on the last two, but Flicker has started out at a good weight so that will be a big advantage!

She didn't do a cervix length either as we want to keep things as settled as possible.

Nifedipine dosage has gone up again, we are going to try this for another week and if things don't settle will go the Progesterone, I am squeezing an extra dosage in during the day so now 100mg daily, plus boosters, the limit is 120mg plus 40mg of boosters.

Flicker is still breech ~ oh well, and we went through breech delivery in more detail today, need to still get a few more weeks of good growth for Flicker to be big enough. I am also going in for a CT Pelvimetry to check the size of my pelvis because we need to make sure that it will open up and baby literally falls out. Breech delivery is a hands off form of delivery, you have to literally let the baby descend, then once the legs, body and shoulders are out the baby bascially peddles backwards, tilts their head and the head is then delivered. It is this point that is critical to a safe breech delivery.

But another spanner in the works is the length of Flickers umbilical cord, looking at the scans it is short, which may also explain why Flicker has made some attemps at turning the last few days and been unsucessful. If this is the case we couldn't see much extra cord today and based on the small placenta it is possible the cord is short as well, breech may not be an option

But we would know quite early in delivery if the cord isn't going to be long enough as we will see signs of fetal distress.

For my OB to deliver I need to have bubs before the 30th of September, 35 weeks or hold on to 39 weeks even she laughed at the thought of that ~ as she is on leave for the month of October and flying out of the country During that time a breech delivery won't be performed, her back up OB isn't as well versed in them as she is, and TBH I would only want to do it if my OB was there as I know that she has done quite a few of them, did a lot when she started in obstetrics, where as the other OB started when CS were the way to go.

So a bit of a mixed bag as such, but in the end the way in which Flicker arrives needs to be the safest and I won't risk his/her life for my own desires.

Either way I feel comfortable with where we are and how things are tracking, it's not perfect but we never expected that and every day/week Flickers gets to stay inside is a bonus.