This Baby’s Story…
Well…Here we are at the 19th of December and along with a lot of other people asking, WHY HAVEN’T YOU HAD THIS BABY YET?! Trust me when I say, I’m feeling that way!
I want to say, God has been so good to me through this, and is teaching me a lot and I’m spending much time in prayer with Him, especially for others, and this past week has been the most trying for me in this pregnancy.
I thought I would take a little time to reflect back over this pregnancy and for any of you that are curious to the “story” of what has brought us to this point and the options of what lay ahead of us…
Here is My Story… (*Disclaimer* This note may include details of body parts or what may seem like TMI, but it’s the story… 
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This all started in March of 2008, I started feeling very different to say the least, and with Bensen being only 3.5 months old, I thought that it was my body getting back to “normal” from having a baby. I had a period in Dec and Jan, but nothing in Feb which I didn’t think anything of, and when March came and still no period and all these other symptoms, I became very curious. I saw my chiropractor the second to last week of March and she had told me that she thought I was at least two weeks pregnant based off of reflexology, EDD of November 27th, 2008 (not a medical absolute)…I was shocked and didn’t know what to think. I decided to wait it out a little bit and take a pregnancy test at home. I had shown Sean as a “birthday” present that we were having another baby and had the conversation with him about not needing to use “protection” anymore because it didn’t matter! (Again I gave a disclaimer, hope it’s not too much info!)
That was the first week of April…at that point Sean and I decided not to go right to the midwives office and just to see how things go for a little while, make sure I don’t miscarry right away etc… (we had several miscarriages in the past). I finally made an appt to see my midwife the first week of June when things seemed to be going well and I felt huge already. We went through the first run through of tests and based off of when I had my last period and the size my uterus was measuring along with blood tests, she gave me an estimated due date of November 17th, 2008.
June 5th I had my first ultrasound where the thought of twins had entered the picture. My uterus was measuring at 19 weeks and the baby there was much smaller. The ultrasound gave me a due date of December 28th, 2008. I was like that isn’t possible at all!!! But I ignored it and went back to my midwife to discuss the ultrasound results with her. I told her I thought they were crazy and if that was my due date, Sean wasn’t even around, I already knew I was pregnant…etc…We did another check a few weeks later for twins and any other problems where at that ultrasound the baby measured even smaller to say I wasn’t due until January. That ultrasound measurements were disregarded all together, but non-the-less, that’s what the ultrasound said.
I feel a little silly because I thought FOR SURE she would be here by the first week of December, and that everything else was just hogwash!!!…Here we are at the 19th, and still no baby…*sigh*
Then October rolled around and I started having some strange pains that turned into 10 min apart contractions, along with some bleeding. So of course, we went to Reading Hospital OB Triage to be checked out, and they found that I had a hemorrhaging adhesion. There was no rel problem with it, but they put me on modified bed rest for only a few weeks and at that point too thought maybe my due date by ultrasound was “off”.
November came and I was certain we would have this baby before Thanksgiving because of how braxton hicks were going and the fact that I was already slightly dilated and feeling very ready to go. I am sure I drove some people crazy with my facebook status and other things because I kept thinking, she’s coming, she has to be coming!
Well, December is here! Starting December 10th, 2008, I started getting really strong and bad back pains along with contractions every 6 minutes. I had actually thought that these back pains were the start of a kidney infection because of where it hurts, how sharp it got and how constant they stayed. I had been praying for many many nights before then that this baby would be coming “today”, but once we hit the 10th, I was certain this pain could not go on forever she has to be coming. We went back into the hospital again on the 12th, and found out I had only dilated a little bit more, though I was thinning out and effacing, I really wasn’t in “active” labor, but they call it Prodromal labor. That night I was sent home with pain medicine and the dr at the hospital told me that by Monday she thought we would have a baby. Well nothing more happened except for me loosing more and more sleep due to pain keeping me awake and my nerves and emotions just melting down. Wednesday we went into the birth center and she felt the baby and said she would strip my membranes and stretch my cervix, but thought the baby was posterior (just like Bensen) and that’s why she wasn’t engaging and why I was in such a drawn out labor with such bad backpain. We dicussed C-section to be scheduled for Monday the 22nd, which is not what I had wanted all along, but if it was going to be just like Ben, I wasn’t going to put myself through it any longer. I still feel like Monday is forever away! So we can home on Wednesday went out for dinner to “relax” and I kept thinking hoping and praying that this baby would come down and be born without a c-section. I went back in on Thursday (yesterday) and had a conference with Dr Cameranno (the overseeing OBGYN for the midwives, and the Dr to do the csection) and both of my midwives, Sean and my mom where all there. After the exam more stretching and more stripping, they found that the baby had switch positions and is now at 0 station and I’m more effaced along with a slight more dilated, but still pretty stuck with dilation.
The midwives feel there hands are a little tied as to further induction of me because when I had Bensen and they gave me pitocin at the very end I had seizure like reactions and did not respond well. (I don’t respond well to synthetic hormones anyway, so it’s not a good thing) Also, breaking my water is an option, but one they still wanted to avoid because of if not delivered in a certain time frame, they would be forced to do a section anyway. We/I am very much trying to do this naturally because I will not be able to have a VBAC after this baby and my uterus is already weak enough that we may not be able to have very many children. (not that we want a ton, but we don’t want to be completely limited if we can help it)
God has been good in giving strength. Last night I was able to get 6 straight hours of sleep because of the medicines the midwives sent me home with yesterday. They are confident that I will be able to have this baby naturally with a little more time to allow this baby to come out. My fluids are good which was a concern, and she is handling contractions and stress very well with good accelerations.
So here we are, now just waiting, and as the 28th approaches, I’m wondering how this happened. Dr Cammerano has a theory, but I find it so hard to believe, but non-the-less, God has the due date of this miracle baby already planned.
I really am so thankful for all the friends and family that have supported, been here helping and those who have just been praying! It’s been a long few weeks of just being uncomfortable to now being in just down right pain with a lot of anxiety to know when she is going to be able to come, if she will be able to on her own!
So, thank you, to those who are really praying!
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Megan,
Thanks so much for the explanation! I must admit I was so confused! I will be praying. Though it seems like forever now, soon you will hold your sweet baby in your arms and this time will be just a distant memory.
What is Dr C’s theory?
Dr Cameranno’s Theory is quite comical actually! Guess I could have explained that in all of this!
Since I waited two more weeks to take the “home test”, his theory is, I actually conceived on Sean’s birthday when I told him I was pregnant and that the home pregnancy test was more like a home ovulation test that came up positive. Since that was my first positive home test outside of my chiropractor, you can get a false positive IF it is the day of ovulation only. I find it hard to swallow, however at that point was the first unprotected time we had together. I still had symptoms and other things that dated back two weeks or more before that test, but they still chalk that up to just having a baby! So it’s a very ironic theory that this baby was actually Sean’s bday present and it just so happened that I took the home test that particular day. If that’s what happened, then so be it. The midwives don’t particularly believe it, and that’s why we came to the due date of December 12th based off of the home test and chiropractor. It doesn’t follow anything else but the appropriate response of a home test.
*I swear I’m not crazy…but my body sure is!* LOL
Awww…poor thing! I was wondering about all the Facebook statuses! 
It sounds like it can’t be too much longer now…I’ll add you to my things to pray for!
We’re all still praying for you, Megan, here in MI. Jill Herron just about jumped up and down when I told her that the baby had turned. She said she had been praying constantly that she would turn and you could have her naturally. We’re all waiting with baited breath. At this rate, you might have to post the whole delivery right on Facebook live so we can all follow it!!:-)
Some bodies are definately just a little crazy (mine, too!) Jessica’s due date was based on THREE ultrasounds, all saying she was due around April 29th (we could never tell based on my wacky periods). Well, Jessica was born on March 31 at 6 pounds and 9 ounces! You can’t tell me that was a nearly five weeks premature baby. I’m fourteen weeks pregant with my second. I was just reminiscing with Mike last night about how I cried to my girlfriends in September that I had gotten my period and obviously wasn’t pregnant (despite lots of other symptoms). At that point, I was already a few weeks along! Some times it just doesn’t make sense. But I’m glad God blesses us with children anyway. They are all miracles when you think about everything that has to be in the right place at the right time to conceive. I think sometimes God just works it out according to his plan, no matter what the textbook says. Hang in there, your precious one has to come out sometime!
You’ll have to save this story for your little girl. She’ll enjoy reading about it someday, so if you have not printed it off….you should.