I really want to say so much more but I am going to refrain because right now this hits too close to home for me. I will say that yes you are crazy. If you are unhappy then tell your husband! And then together do something about it!
Some books to read: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman His Needs, Her Needs by Willard Harley Love Busters: Protecting Your Marriage from Habits That Destroy Romantic Love by Willard Harley Fall in Love, Stay in Love by Willard Harley
Yay for realizing that you need help! I know that that part is rather hard. Definitely talk to your DR. They will give you some suggestions on what to take. My OB gave me Zoloft and said it was safe to take while BFing. It has definitely helped me cope with some things I needed help with. Just know that it could take 2 weeks to work. GL!
DS takes Zantac twice a day before a feeding. We give him his medicine and then give him his bottle, once in the morning and once in the evening. It took about 2.5 weeks to see a difference and now it is night and day from when before he started the medicine.
Did you do anything to try to turn the baby on your own? Did it work? Or did your baby just turn on his/her own?
I'm so torn. I'm 34 weeks now, and my baby has been breech for the last month or so. My dr. said today there's about a 50% chance she will turn on her own in the next several weeks. They will check again in 2 weeks. If she is still breech, they gave me my options to discuss with MH.
#1) have a version done at the hospital. This is where a dr. manually tries to turn the baby from the outside, while extensively monitoring the baby the entire time. If the baby goes into distress at all, I'd need to deliver via c section right away. My dr. says he's never seen this actually happen. The procedure works about 75% of the time, but some babies might naturally flip back to breech anyway. There's no guarantee.
#2) schedule a c section for 39 weeks.
I know this is a decision only MH and I can make. I really, really don't want a csection and am struggling with this a lot. Does anyone have any experience with the version procedure?
My DS was breech starting at around 34 weeks. I did *some* exercises on spinning babies but wasn't very diligent. I decided against an external version and went the chiropractic route which I totally recommend. We had a Csection date set in the books and I went to the chiro 3 times before then. My thinking was 'if it was meant to be it was meant to be'. The morning of my csection after being admitted and prepped for a csection my OB did a final ultrasound to check position of baby and lo and behold he had flipped!!! So instead of a csection we went to L&D and did an induction instead. I can't believe he flipped since I never felt him flip and didn't feel any different. (I had gone to the chiro 3 times before our csection date)
I am so happy in my story and love telling it. We talked A LOT about it with both my OB and my DH and I am very confident in my decision. GL!
DS's pedi said the same thing that redheadk mentioned. The medicine will not make the reflux go away just lessen the symptoms. So since he isn't screaming and is now a 'happy' spitter, I say that is success. Since starting Zantac DS does not scream between feedings and is just as happy as can be. I can tell he is not in pain yet he still spits up a ton. I am ok with that and so is DS's pedi.
I don't love the new twist but can live with it and it does add another element to the game. I do not like devin or zach. I like Donny, christine, frankie and liked joey. I'm just eh about caleb.
I'm a CPST and don't look through CSFTL anymore bc some of the people can be very overbearing. But there are going to be very evangelical people out there with all parenting topics, you just got to smile and nod, smile and nod...
We stopped carrying DD out of the car at around 4-5 months. We continued to use her car seat until she outgrew it at around 13 months. No need to waste good months of car seat usage.
So I'll just share a quick update: I'm almost 37 weeks and am ready to be done! Baby is still breech...sad trombone. I have been to the chiro a couple of times and he hasn't flipped. In my heart I don't think he will. We had a long discussion with the OB about doing an ECV and I decided not to have it done. So baby will come out via CS which I am okay with. Also, my last 24 hour urine collection came back borderline and Dr would rather deliver sooner rather than later so we will have baby next week sometime--most likely on Thursday (I'll find out tomorrow). So by this time next week I will be holding my baby boy!
Good luck ladies, if you ever have specific GD questions just ask me!
Boy washcloths/towels boy burp cloths extra video monitor camera RnP My Brest Friend pillow Sound Machine A+A swaddle blankets Sleep sacks and swaddlemes Diaper Genie Pacis Mei Tai
I think I spent about $170ish? I'm not quite sure. I found a set that I loved. It came with 2 fitted sheets, crib skirt, diaper stacker, blanket, valance, and wall decor. I will use every piece from the set though I am making the valance into pillows.
...install the car seat base in your car? Next week (36 weeks) ...pack the hospital bags? I'll start this week and make a list of essentials ...finish purchasing the baby gear/essentials? I did that last week. ...purchase nursing clothing? I'll buy a couple nursing tanks this week but that is it.