GAH! So I had my 33 week appointment today. I lost 3 pounds, so I have only gained 2 this whole pregnancy. Glucose and protein were good. Blood pressure was 110/70.

Baby's position? Breech.

Yeah.

Callie did the same thing around the same time, but I am so mad. If I wasn't a VBAC or had a proven pelvis a breech birth would be no problem to attempt. But the midwife said hell no, no way and that there was pretty much no one in town in their right mind who'd allow for a breech trial, due to the level of complications I could experience.

GRR!

Fortunately it's not THAT big of a deal - the baby could easily turn again and I am expecting them to, I can do pelvic tilts and spinning babies exercises, and the midwife AND OB will try their hand at an external version at 37 weeks should breach still be an issue. It's just a setback I wasn't desiring, especially when the baby had significantly dropped for a few days before disengaging (also eerily like his/her sister). It's something I was hoping to not have to worry about - but oh well.

The midwife did a quick ultrasound to verify the baby's position and check my amniotic fluid levels- they were pretty high with Callie and apparently high with this baby as well, which could have contributed to the ability to flip around. She asked if I knew the sex and oh my gosh girls, I was SO tempted, so VERY tempted to find out what the baby was. Especially since she'd asked me about whether or not we'd circumcise if the baby was a boy. But BARELY, just barely I held onto my willpower. It was a tiny screen on a portable unit, and since she was looking for the baby's head and butt it would have been SO easy, but I managed to resist the HUGE temptation of finding out and just not telling DH.

Really everything else was great, the midwife is a little worried I'm not eating enough (this was the same one that cautioned me to gain as little weight as possible because it would complicated my VBAC... you can't see my eyes rolling) but I assured here I'm just not that hungry but when I am I try to do well with my protein intake and calcium. The drive over to the birth center was SUPER stressful with cops, construction, and tourists abounding, but somehow I still managed to turn out a good appointment, breech aside.

Man, I had such a bad feeling yesterday when I was feeling painfully strong kicks against my cervix, I just knew the lump under my ribs was a head. Grrr. But we'll see if we can't flip this baby by my next appointment.

*%&(#)$ *($#!!!!!! Ornery kids.