Baby is HEAD DOWN!

Yahooooooooo!!!!  I have been stressing BIG time for the past few weeks knowing that this baby is right-side up.  And "right-side" in this case is the WRONG way for a successful birth.  I was a breech "regular" birth back in 1978, Rowan was breech - couldn't be turned - and I had a c-section, Oscar was breech until he turned on his own during week 36, and this baby was breech until this morning!  Wally was my only baby that got with the program.  He made up for that, however, by not sleeping for 18 months.

Dr. Carr and another OB did the turning Sunday morning in only 3 minutes!  It went surprisingly well.  Completely different than my experience with Rowan when they attempted to turn her.  Granted, it was not a pleasant experience - but I was determined that it was going to work!

This is how I've been spending my "free" time for the past 4 weeks.  I wake up and do this pose from my bed, I do this before lunch, after dinner, while kids are asleep, at commercial breaks...

The other pose is laying on a board at a 45 degree angle (ok maybe not 45 degrees but pretty freakin' close!), with my feet up and head down and frozen peas on the baby's head, heat pack down low and music playing on my ear buds at my yoo-hoo.  I did not get a photo of that pose -shocker.  I only threw up once - not bad eh?  Head cold + pregnancy +heart burn + laying upside down = ick.


 I did acupuncture!  A needle between my eyes, needles at base of thumbs, needles in pinky toes, and insides of ankles.  Wally was very curious during that appointment. Then this moxabustion/mugwort is burned on the outside of the pinky toes.  I was instructed to take the stick home and do the burning part for 10 more days.  No, they did not send me home with needles to have me stick them between my eyes.

 The only downside? -it smells like POT!  Seriously, like I'm taking bong hit after bong hit while chillin' out to Sesame Street, having mad munchies, and incubating a baby.  The smell does NOT go away either.  Luckily I only had to do it for a couple days at home before my OB version appointment.  The cops may have been called if it went on much longer.

I have no pictures of the weekly chiropractor (Wally: "Doctor gonna pop your head?") and cranial sacral appointments - but this baby flipping has seriously been a  full time job!

In the hospital waiting for the version to start. Feels like a dress rehearsal for Labor.

Here's the dough kneading  - we have a some video of it - wish I wouldn't have told Tim to turn the camera off - would have been cool to see the whole thing, but I started getting nervous knowing he was filming and what if it didn't work???  So the photos will have to do

Almost there!!

 When Dr. Carr said the baby was head down I was so so happy!  Shocked and happy.  It took a bit for my body to adjust to the new position but now baby is locked and loaded!  Can't wait to meet him/her.