I don’t think I have written about my last midwife visit here yet, but there were some exciting things discussed.
First, I had a MFM ultrasounds last Monday to check growth. Baby is great - measuring in the 33% and pretty much perfectly. I am measuring nearly 3 weeks ahead, but thats not important lol. The dr there was concerned about my itching - I had it last pregnancy too so we did bile acid level labs and it looks like I may have a bit of Cholestasis (itchiness from a weird liver/bile issue during pregnancy). I am on a medication now and the itching is surprisingly better… didn’t think it would work that quickly, but whatever. Anyway, it was his recommendation that I deliver on or before 37 weeks. Midwife agreed and so well, thats the plan.
The official plan is that I will start Evening Primrose Oil vaginally and orally at 34 weeks ( I did this last time as well, but started at 36 weeks). We will check cervix at 36 weeks and if it is opened enough for a membrane rupture we’ll do that. We will also try blue/black cohosh at 36 weeks…. yes, that will be the week of Christmas. :-/ And if none of that works then during week 37 I will be admitted and given IV pitocin. She assured me that it would be much better than what happened with Beau. She said we would do everything in our power to get things started naturally, but if I did have to have pitocin it will only be until 4cm and then turned off for the rest of labor. She says I will still be able to labor in the tub and won’t have to be hooked up to monitors (I will have one, but it is wireless). She also said we will follow my after birth plan just as I had wanted - the only difference is that I will be at the hospital instead of the birth center or home. We will still delay cord clamping, no eye ointment or vit k, baby will not leave my side and all that other good stuff. If baby is good we will be sent home a few hours after birth and everything will be awesome. I am hopeful and open minded. It is not the birth plan I had envisioned, but it is a plan that I am comfortable with.
And so… that means in less than 9 weeks we will start this natural induction process and in 12 weeks or less I will have met my daughter and will no longer be pregnant. I am so excited I can’t even put it into words. I know everything will go well. I see her every time I dream. I feel like she has always been meant for me, just like I felt with Beau. I knew his name and his face before I ever conceived him, just like I have felt with her. Callum was a surprise - I knew something was different. I could not ever see him, he never had a name and I felt something was wrong because I knew in my soul that a girl would be the child added to our family. I was so shocked when we found out he was a boy because I was truly expecting that pregnancy to be the daughter I had seen so many times in my dreams who already had a name years ago. But now I know. I know why all those things didn’t add up and I know this does. I am confident and at peace and know this baby is meant to be with us forever.
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