I'm full term! Yay! I can't believe how fast it has all been...it feels like I just found out I was pregnant. I am nervous for everything, but mainly just very excited to finally get to meet my little guy :) Tony and I still need to get a hospital bag packed and ready just in case. I have had quite the experience with health care and decided to change just a couple weeks ago to a midwife group. I am hoping to have a natural birth, I know I know you all think I'm crazy. I have just done a lot of research and feel if everything goes without need of intervention, I would rather not have it. I am nervous, but really hope that I can do it!! I pray that everything goes smoothly and that my baby comes heathly and happy :)
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How exciting its almost time!! You can go anytime and be ok! That's such a good feeling. Good luck with going naturally, you're pretty brave! Keep us posted!
That's so exciting! I'm sure everything will go smoothly and you'll have your little guy soon enough.
Keep us posted! It is coming so soon!!
For your sake, I really hope your midwife experience is positive. I was not so lucky. Which group are you with now? You're brave for wanting to do this natural! Go for it! You're a trooper!
This summer when I come you and Gepetto should come stay with me at the cabin. I think I'm going to be there a lot because I have to keep my cats there.
I think you are so brave! Good luck! I'm so excited for you!
That's who I was with. My sister-in-law had her first with them and LOVED them, so I thought I'd try it too. I thought it sounded like a great idea! Seeing women throughout your pregnancy, they'll be there with you more through your delivery, etc. But I'll never go back to that practice for any amount of money in the whole world. Here's a REALLY condensened version of the nine months of hell:
I think if you have a run of the mill pregnancy and delivery, you'll be fine. Any complications or anything a little off at all and they don't seem know what to do. I've never been treated SO poorly by health professionals in my life. SO condescending when I told them I was in excrutiating pain--especially after the car accident! They'd just pat me on the back and told me "Isn't having babies fun?" I thought Dave was going to turn into the hulk everytime we were in that office with those midwives. Dave was so mad after a few months we switched to the OBs there at the practice. The midwives didn't seem to know what to do with me after the car accident. They were supposed to be "counseling" with the OBs if they had a patient with problems out of their realm. I really doubt that was happening because none of the OBs had heard anything about my accident and subsequent hospital visits. I found one OB there I kind of liked, but no one bothered to tell me he'd be going to Iraq two months before I delievered. So I started seeing the other OBs there and they were clueless--especially one. He made me tell the whole car accident story EVERY TIME even though the notes about the accident in my chart were in HIS OWN HANDWRITING. (Luckily, the least clueless doctor from that practice actually did the delivery and I'm so lucky it was him!) Dave got so mad at them that he made me an appointment with another practice in Provo. They actually listened and tried to come up with solutions to help ease my incredible pain. There was no way I could push a baby out if I couldn't even breathe. Everything they did and/or suggested WORKED! I was a new woman that day. When I went back to see clueless doctor, he just scoffed at what they'd done--even though it had worked and he had done nothing to help me. And another thing--MORE THAN ONCE, I waited at the office for HOURS because whoever I was seeing had to go to the hospital to help a midwife with a patient that was in real trouble and she couldn't help her. It was those moments that I realized that even if I didn't like the OBs, if I was laying in a hospital bed hemorrhaging after childbirth, I wouldn't be stuck with a midwife who had no idea what to do and have to wait for a doctor to come and take care of me. I was more than happy to wait, because if I was that girl in the bed bleeding to death, I'd want everyone available to get that midwife out of the room and help me. The only thing that made that office bearable was the old Scottish nurse, Ann. And only cause I already knew her. She used to travel with a retinal doctor from SLC down to do surgery at my dad's office once a month. I would just tell her my problems. She couldn't do much because she was new at being in an OB office, but at least she wasn't crazy.
I've been going to that OB/family practice in Provo for everything since Lincoln was born and I LOVE them! Want their number? I see all females and they've all had kids. Because what good is a mechanic that's never owned a car? Catch my drift?
Like I said in my previous post, I REALLY hope you have a positive experience. You may be fine, especially if you have a super textbook labor and delivery. And I hope you don't need a C-section or you'll have an OB you don't know cause midwives can't do that. I found the nurses at the Timp hospital to be VERY attentive and SO kind and I can't figure out what more a midwife would be doing that the nurses wouldn't be doing during labor. I didn't really want someone in there the whole time. The nurses were great and let Dave and I have our time, but were always there when I needed care or had questions. OBs aren't so bad.
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