Even The Best Laid Plans

The Start 10

I’m on very close watch, ops every 30 minutes and FHR every hour. 

I am in the right place but it’s too early. Let’s hope things quiet down and stay that way. As much as hospital bed rest sucks, this baby needs to cook more. 

Now it’s 8am and it’s calmed down, what a way to get here! 

Doctors come in to explain the options more in-depth. The baby is breech and my placenta is anterior and low lying. A natural birth would be best for my health. If we have to a c section, it would a classic style and the internal incision would be lateral. My chances of a bad bleed is high and I would need to consent to a blood transfusion. There isn’t enough research and information to confirm what is the best option for babys chances of survival. 

I have an ultrasound to check babies weight and confirm position. Baby is around 520g and is breech with legs up like a diver, FHR is good around 155, there is still no measurable fluid. I am still leaking slowly but now with blood.

The doctor comes back after the ultrasound, we need to make some choices. We are going to aim for the natural breech birth. The risks are; we discover the placenta is in the way, fetal distress and the babies head gets caught which would mean a cervical episiotomy. If at any point a c section becomes the better option then that’s what we will do.

I make through to midday and my ops are stable. I am now on slow release nifedipine and get moved into the maternity ward. I am still leaking and bleeding but my ops and FHR are stable.

I get my second shot of steroids at 2am, they need 24 hours to do their best.

I would do anything to hold on and although it is my body, I have no control.