This morning was my scheduled ECV (external cephalic version) to try and manuever the baby into a vertex (head-down) position. John and I went to Labor & Delivery at 9 this morning and I got to put on one of those fancy gowns and get the baby monitors strapped to my belly. Then the fun part, the nurse had to start an IV. (Kristin, I don't know how you lived through the nurses trying 8 times on you because just having the nurse mess up once in my left hand was bad enough. Even the 2nd successful attempt in my right hand wasn't too much better but at least that hand is not sore now.)
The nurse was busy filling in all my personal data into the triage report and didn't get around to giving me the uterus relaxing medicine before the doctor showed up. Good thing she didn't. Dr. Meath did an ultrasound right away and the first thing we saw was Bib's head at the bottom of my belly! We were so proud of Bib for turning all on its own! She did an ultrasound in the area where the head was last week and there was the legs and bottom!
I don't know when the turning happened but I think it was probably sometime in the last couple days. I had been sleeping on my left side the past couple nights trying to give it a little different feeling and maybe use gravity to help make the flip. Hopefully Bib stays in this position now.
My only instruction upon leaving triage was to tell the doctor at my appointment tomorrow that the baby is vertex!
So happy that you didn't have to reposition your baby, as that would have been quite uncomfortable...although I was looking forward to maybe being an Aunt today! ;-) And BTW, it was 9 pokes, not 8 -- they all sucked, so I count them all! LOL....the hand was awful...luckily they used lidocaine first for some of them (although the lidocaine stung)...For labor, the hand is best, otherwise your elbow area is easier to put an IV in and hurts less....
ReplyDeleteKaren I'm soooo happy that you didn't have to go through that!!! And also FYI - w/ the IV - if during labor they need to IV you, they might keep it in the entire time you're admitted in case they need to give you fluids etc. I had to shower w/ a glove on my hand cause the IV needle was still in my hand. It didn't hurt but it wasn't fun!
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