Drum roll please...
IT'S A BOY!
Eric and I are so excited to meet our little man this October!
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4.25.16
I'm thinking about using a midwife for my upcoming delivery. I'll write about more of that later but it's important I say that since it goes along with the story. The second counselor in my bishopric came to visit Eric and I a couple of days ago and I had mentioned that I was not really enchanted with my doctor and he suggested I talk to a woman that was in his old ward who knew all about Mesa midwives. She also had an ultrasound business that she ran out of her home so I might be able to find out about the gender a little early. Well I was extremely interested and texted her right away and met with her on Monday, the 25th of April. This woman is absolutely amazing. Her name is Sunny which completely matches her personality. The experience was so comfortable and I preferred it over sitting in a doctors office waiting for my turn. Now little man was being pretty difficult, granted he was sleeping but the way he was positioned his little bum was sitting at the bottom of my uterus. We were able to see his legs, his arms, his hands, his head, even his full spine, but no gender parts! I was beginning to feel disheartened and dreading hearing the words "Well maybe we can try next week", but Sunny was so wonderful. She tried many things to get him moving and awake. She gave me a Popsicle, had me dance around to try to get him to wake up. Honestly I feel like if I was in a doctors office they would try for ten minutes and then say "sorry we'll try in four weeks." But finally, baby got moving and he gave us a stretch. And there it was! The little turtle head! It's a boy! What was crazy is that I was almost positive it was a girl! A lot of women tell me that there's an old wives tale that if the heartbeat is high then it's a girl. Well that baby's heartbeat was 159.. But Eric and I are so excited to meet our little man, and so grateful to God for the opportunity to raise a son. No name yet! Eric and I didn't really want to talk about it until we found out if it was a boy or a girl, so we'll get on it. :)
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So I've been really thinking about my birth plan. Now I know that we won't know exactly how the birth will go until it actually happens but everything I've read says it's just good to have an outline of how you want things to go so that you can prepare yourself. Anyways, I've been finding myself moving away from my current doctor. He's a wonderful man, and I really like who he is as a person, but at my first appointment, I was ten weeks at the time, he told me that there was a good chance I would need a c-section because I'm very narrow and the baby may have trouble coming out. Now I just sat there and was blown away. My body is JUST starting to make changes. I'm twenty years old, I'm very healthy, and we don't even know how my hips will be once I'm in my third trimester, how can you already say that I'll need a c-section? I called my sister who immediately shot down what he said, saying that the doctor had told her the same thing and she was able to birth her son vaginally. I don't want a c-section if I don't need it. I understand emergencies and in the long run I don't really care how the baby gets here, but if I don't need surgery I don't want it! Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time. That really bothered me. If I was 30+ weeks and he told me that I would be much more inclined to listen and support his decision if he really thought I needed it, but I was barely pregnant!
Now five years ago if you had asked me if I would consider a midwife I would have said "HECK NO!" Granted I was extremely uneducated about midwives at the time, but I was very set on having my future babies in a hospital with a doctor. But now as I'm older, I'm doing more reading, and speaking to other women about their birth stories, the idea of a midwife becomes more and more attractive to me. Mt stepmother, who is an anesthesiologist, used midwives for three of her children's births and she loved it. Everyone
I talk to really enjoyed having a midwife. Someone who experiences the birth with you instead of just shows up at the end to catch the baby. While I'm still set on having the baby in the hospital, a midwife is just becoming more and more attractive to me. So if anyone who's had a midwife want to talk to me about it I would love to listen! I'm doing lots of reading and lots of research, and all I was is to be comfortable with giving birth.
I talk to really enjoyed having a midwife. Someone who experiences the birth with you instead of just shows up at the end to catch the baby. While I'm still set on having the baby in the hospital, a midwife is just becoming more and more attractive to me. So if anyone who's had a midwife want to talk to me about it I would love to listen! I'm doing lots of reading and lots of research, and all I was is to be comfortable with giving birth.
Anyways enough with the serious stuff, I'm excited to share our ultrasound photos. We love our little man!!
