Deuce News

We had our second ultrasound for Deuce today. Apparently there was some concern that the baby was a little...little. I'm glad we didn't know. Well, all worries have been put to rest. Deuce is 4 1/2 pounds - 58th percentile. Perfectly on track according to the tech and the doctor. Heartrate was 148 today. Up considerably from what it had been in recent visits - generally upper 130's, lower 140's. All the measurable bits look good. Amniotic fluid is quite plentiful. Interestingly, we can't see any sign of the fibroid that I had with Reeves. I wasn't too worried about it, but it's nice to know it's not there now. They're all hormone related. I just knew I was much more pleasant with this pregnancy than with the last one! (Right, B?) And there was no sign of the "telltale bits", at least not to Bryant and me, but, since we had a different tech today, I do have to now live with the knowledge that someone else out there knows what I'm having!! There was one bit of news that we found out that we didn't know before....Last night, I was lying in bed, B was at the computer. Deuce was moving all over the place, as is our routine whenever I stop moving. I have recently been feeling movement quite low on my belly. I mentioned to him that I wouldn't be surprised if we went in tomorrow and found out that this child was breech. Well, call it mother's intuition or a keen interuterine sense of space and movement or whatever, sure enough, Deuce's head is right up by my left ribs. I guess this is the child that will always be trying to be closest to my heart. No one is worried about it at the moment. Becky said babies often will turn themselves around. We will check again at the next appointment and the one after that. If towards the end, Deuce is still breech, we have two options. First, we can try to turn it from the outside. That is, we would go into the hospital, get on the monitors, and she would see what she can do to turn the baby. I'm not so sure about this since, in the office today, she showed me just a little bit of what she would have to do, and it nearly made me jump off the table. Not so sure I want to go through that - intensified and for even longer. But I do feel like I would want to endure that as opposed to the second option which is a C-Section. I haven't really thought about a C too much. I mean, I knew I didn't want one with Reeves, and since he came out fine (and I use that term loosely), the possibility of having one with Deuce hasn't even ever really entered my mind. But now, now that that outcome is a very real possibility, I am surprised by the way I am feeling about it. I really don't want one, but I would never put Deuce's health in the way of my not wanting a scar or not wanting the difficult recovery time post-partum. So, for the next 8 weeks, we'll be doing a lot of praying that Deuce flips over and decides that head down is quite a comfortable position. Well, that and trying out Becky's answer to my question of "Is there anything I can do myself to try to get it to flip?" That answer was to stand on my head - seriously. She said that doing that sometimes encourages them to turn over. Who am I to question? This is only my second baby. She's delivered hundreds, probably thousands, and had four of her own. I'll take her advice, maybe it will even help relieve some of that pressure on the underside of my belly. But just in case, please pray that this baby turns itself head down on its own.