Baby #3 on the way! Plus midwife conversation
Yes, you read that correctly! We're expecting Baby #3! Found out yesterday (old news to Facebook, I know)... so I'm very early on (trying not to get TOO excited, as anything can happen...). I'm due July 31, 2012 and cannot be more thrilled about that due date! I so so so wanted a July/August Leo baby. :-D
Anyway, here are some pictures of the tests I took yesterday:
I was surprised to get such clear positives at only 9 days past ovulation (DPO)! I was actually planning to wait until 10 DPO to test, but I caved and tested a day before, lol. I really wasn't expecting a positive this early in the cycle... I thought at MOST I'd get a faint faint FAINT line. But nope! These two are clear as day! Definitely positive!
I did get a bit worried as last night (this next part may be TMI, so I'm going to type it in white font, if you want to read it, just highlight the blank space following this) I started bleeding during sex. I know that that's common in pregnancy, especially in early pregnancy, but I did make not of it. It also could have been more implantation bleeding (I have already spotted for two days during implantation). But I was also worried because this morning (10 DPO) my tests in the morning were VERY faint, much fainter than yesterday's tests. I hope it's not a decrease in hCG. However, I tested again at lunch time, and it was much darker. Not as dark as yesterday's... but much darker than this morning's tests. I think I'm just over-analyzing all this though. I feel like everything's going so well that I'm *expecting* things to mess up, ya know? This pregnancy happened so quickly (we've only been trying for 2 months, whereas my last two pregnancies took much much longer), I've never had a miscarriage (and they are quite common), and I'm due EXACTLY when I really really wanted to be due... so it almost feels too good to be true!
If it does end up that I miscarry... well, I'll be sad, of course... but I don't think I'd be too upset. It's still so early on, ya know? I think I'd be more saddened that I won't have a July/August baby, to be honest. At this point I'm not too "attached" as it's just so early in the pregnancy (I'm not even 4 weeks along).
ANYWAY... I just got off the phone with a midwife in the area. Her name is Denise and she runs the Women's Health Clinic in Fallbrook. They specialize in home births, but also offer birth center births. She's been a Licensed Midwife (LM) for 33 years, has worked in many birth centers and just opened her own practice. Right now the actual birth center is not set up (won't be until April), so she's been doing just home births for a little while now until the birth center is set up. As for appointments, half are done in home (patient's home) and half are currently done at her residence.
I was REALLY worried that she wouldn't take me as a patient though as I've had two c-sections. However, and this I didn't know, LMs are able to take VBAC patients in California, while CNMs (Certified Nurse Midwives) are not. So she will definitely take me in! YAY! I'm really really REALLY hoping for a natural vaginal birth this time around. I asked Denise if she had ever had to transfer a birth to the hospital, and she said that last year she had one transfer. It was a VBAC patient, baby wasn't descending and they couldn't figure out why, so they transferred to the hospital for a c-section. Turns out during the FIRST c-section, the surgeon cut into her cervix and caused a ton of scar tissue! This prevented the cervix from dilating properly and was stopping the baby from descending. Now she can only have c-sections from now on. :-( So sad! But anyway, that was her only transfer last year. I like that she's got a LOT of experience and I'm so glad that she accepts VBAC patients! My first appointment will be in home on December 20th (I'll be between 7-8 weeks by then).
I am going to have to change my health insurance from Tricare Prime to Tricare Standard if I want to have my birth covered. This is a bit of a nuisance to do... but it's worth it. I'll have to be on Standard for at least a year before I can switch back to Prime, which is ok.
So yeah! I'm pregnant (crrrazy!), due at the end of July, which was my primary choice for delivery (YAY!), first appointment with Denise, my midwife, is on December 20th. :-D
Anyway, here are some pictures of the tests I took yesterday:
I was surprised to get such clear positives at only 9 days past ovulation (DPO)! I was actually planning to wait until 10 DPO to test, but I caved and tested a day before, lol. I really wasn't expecting a positive this early in the cycle... I thought at MOST I'd get a faint faint FAINT line. But nope! These two are clear as day! Definitely positive!
I did get a bit worried as last night (this next part may be TMI, so I'm going to type it in white font, if you want to read it, just highlight the blank space following this) I started bleeding during sex. I know that that's common in pregnancy, especially in early pregnancy, but I did make not of it. It also could have been more implantation bleeding (I have already spotted for two days during implantation). But I was also worried because this morning (10 DPO) my tests in the morning were VERY faint, much fainter than yesterday's tests. I hope it's not a decrease in hCG. However, I tested again at lunch time, and it was much darker. Not as dark as yesterday's... but much darker than this morning's tests. I think I'm just over-analyzing all this though. I feel like everything's going so well that I'm *expecting* things to mess up, ya know? This pregnancy happened so quickly (we've only been trying for 2 months, whereas my last two pregnancies took much much longer), I've never had a miscarriage (and they are quite common), and I'm due EXACTLY when I really really wanted to be due... so it almost feels too good to be true!
If it does end up that I miscarry... well, I'll be sad, of course... but I don't think I'd be too upset. It's still so early on, ya know? I think I'd be more saddened that I won't have a July/August baby, to be honest. At this point I'm not too "attached" as it's just so early in the pregnancy (I'm not even 4 weeks along).
ANYWAY... I just got off the phone with a midwife in the area. Her name is Denise and she runs the Women's Health Clinic in Fallbrook. They specialize in home births, but also offer birth center births. She's been a Licensed Midwife (LM) for 33 years, has worked in many birth centers and just opened her own practice. Right now the actual birth center is not set up (won't be until April), so she's been doing just home births for a little while now until the birth center is set up. As for appointments, half are done in home (patient's home) and half are currently done at her residence.
I was REALLY worried that she wouldn't take me as a patient though as I've had two c-sections. However, and this I didn't know, LMs are able to take VBAC patients in California, while CNMs (Certified Nurse Midwives) are not. So she will definitely take me in! YAY! I'm really really REALLY hoping for a natural vaginal birth this time around. I asked Denise if she had ever had to transfer a birth to the hospital, and she said that last year she had one transfer. It was a VBAC patient, baby wasn't descending and they couldn't figure out why, so they transferred to the hospital for a c-section. Turns out during the FIRST c-section, the surgeon cut into her cervix and caused a ton of scar tissue! This prevented the cervix from dilating properly and was stopping the baby from descending. Now she can only have c-sections from now on. :-( So sad! But anyway, that was her only transfer last year. I like that she's got a LOT of experience and I'm so glad that she accepts VBAC patients! My first appointment will be in home on December 20th (I'll be between 7-8 weeks by then).
I am going to have to change my health insurance from Tricare Prime to Tricare Standard if I want to have my birth covered. This is a bit of a nuisance to do... but it's worth it. I'll have to be on Standard for at least a year before I can switch back to Prime, which is ok.
So yeah! I'm pregnant (crrrazy!), due at the end of July, which was my primary choice for delivery (YAY!), first appointment with Denise, my midwife, is on December 20th. :-D