A deep sigh of relief
I had my 34 week appointment today, and asked to be checked, even though it's two weeks earlier than they would normally start checks. On Friday, I was having contractions that were 6 minutes apart and it was scaring the crap out of me. They were uncomforatable (but not PAINFUL) and I did eventually call the midwife and ask what I should do.
Long story short, a bath and side-lying stopped them and I continued about my life. I had more on Saturday and ignored them, and by yesterday, they had gone back to "normal" BHers, completely irregular. Like six a DAY instead of six in a half hour.
Anyway, I have two more weeks of hospital birth looming in front of me (not to mention preemie nightmares) so I just wanted to have some peace of mind. I realize that checks can be way off and also that you can walk around at 3 centimeters for a month or more, but since I already was imagining that that was indeed the case, I just thought the only thing that could come from this was some peace of mind.
So the alternate midwife (she is really really nice and I will be totally fine with it if she's the one who attends my birth) checked me and my cervix was so far back (high up) that she couldn't even reach it. In sum, the baby is NOT going to fall out. Very very very unlikely that she will be born in the next two weeks. The contractions I've been having are just regular Braxtons, NOT the kind that progress you and lead to NICU babies. Hooray!!!!
Oh, and also, she is vertex, or was, as of this afternoon. She does seem to move a lot still, but I now know how to check for her HEAD, which I previously had never really felt. (I only could find her butt and feet, and sometimes it seemed like she was transverse) Now, she's headdown, and even when it seems like she's an octopus and her limbs are everywhere, I'm pretty confident that she isn't actually completely flipping.
That's TWO major worries out of the way today. (Out-of-hospital breech births aren't allowed in Washington)
Now, the next big hurdle is how to get Stephen some help to go down to Aberdeen and get our stuff ASAP ... it's three hours away, there's no way I'm going at this point, but I don't even want HIM to go that far away. An lj friend of mine just had her second baby in three hours, from first contraction to her actual birth. WOW. Anyway, I'm not thrilled with the idea of him going so far at this late time, but it has to be done because the deal is supposed to close on March 20 and obviously that's way too late to be doing this.
Our agent called me on Valentine's Day. (Last time it was days before my birthday.) The offer is for MORE THAN WE'RE ASKING!!!!!!!!!!! They know about the under the house problems and don't care. They know there was a deal in October that fell through because of them, and they don't care. The deal is a VA loan, so it's not even subject to inspection the same way a traditional loan is. In short, the real estate agent says this is the best thing that could have happened to us. And my FIL did some research on VA loans and agrees that it is very unlikely that this deal will fall through. Especially since they were apparently calling our agent throughout the day on Sunday asking "Did they sign yet?" over and over again. (We did, but he couldn't find the papers for a while because he checked his email instead of the office where we had faxed them.)
So. We are two payments behind, which my mom and Stephen's dad are helping us catch up with so there are no problems with the sale. And our stuff has to go somewhere. Stephen is very pro the idea of just trashing/donating most of it, but there's a lot of personal effects there, sentimental stuff, that, just because it's not in our daily lives at the moment, doesn't mean I want it trashed. We'll see. I can't believe this is happening. It feels like the whole thing is a dream. I keep waiting for the other shoe to fall.
Long story short, a bath and side-lying stopped them and I continued about my life. I had more on Saturday and ignored them, and by yesterday, they had gone back to "normal" BHers, completely irregular. Like six a DAY instead of six in a half hour.
Anyway, I have two more weeks of hospital birth looming in front of me (not to mention preemie nightmares) so I just wanted to have some peace of mind. I realize that checks can be way off and also that you can walk around at 3 centimeters for a month or more, but since I already was imagining that that was indeed the case, I just thought the only thing that could come from this was some peace of mind.
So the alternate midwife (she is really really nice and I will be totally fine with it if she's the one who attends my birth) checked me and my cervix was so far back (high up) that she couldn't even reach it. In sum, the baby is NOT going to fall out. Very very very unlikely that she will be born in the next two weeks. The contractions I've been having are just regular Braxtons, NOT the kind that progress you and lead to NICU babies. Hooray!!!!
Oh, and also, she is vertex, or was, as of this afternoon. She does seem to move a lot still, but I now know how to check for her HEAD, which I previously had never really felt. (I only could find her butt and feet, and sometimes it seemed like she was transverse) Now, she's headdown, and even when it seems like she's an octopus and her limbs are everywhere, I'm pretty confident that she isn't actually completely flipping.
That's TWO major worries out of the way today. (Out-of-hospital breech births aren't allowed in Washington)
Now, the next big hurdle is how to get Stephen some help to go down to Aberdeen and get our stuff ASAP ... it's three hours away, there's no way I'm going at this point, but I don't even want HIM to go that far away. An lj friend of mine just had her second baby in three hours, from first contraction to her actual birth. WOW. Anyway, I'm not thrilled with the idea of him going so far at this late time, but it has to be done because the deal is supposed to close on March 20 and obviously that's way too late to be doing this.
Our agent called me on Valentine's Day. (Last time it was days before my birthday.) The offer is for MORE THAN WE'RE ASKING!!!!!!!!!!! They know about the under the house problems and don't care. They know there was a deal in October that fell through because of them, and they don't care. The deal is a VA loan, so it's not even subject to inspection the same way a traditional loan is. In short, the real estate agent says this is the best thing that could have happened to us. And my FIL did some research on VA loans and agrees that it is very unlikely that this deal will fall through. Especially since they were apparently calling our agent throughout the day on Sunday asking "Did they sign yet?" over and over again. (We did, but he couldn't find the papers for a while because he checked his email instead of the office where we had faxed them.)
So. We are two payments behind, which my mom and Stephen's dad are helping us catch up with so there are no problems with the sale. And our stuff has to go somewhere. Stephen is very pro the idea of just trashing/donating most of it, but there's a lot of personal effects there, sentimental stuff, that, just because it's not in our daily lives at the moment, doesn't mean I want it trashed. We'll see. I can't believe this is happening. It feels like the whole thing is a dream. I keep waiting for the other shoe to fall.