Sunday, May 20, 2007

The Dark Side of Pregnancy

Drew is breech. We think. Depends who you ask. Erika thinks he feels in the right position based on the kicks and hiccups ect, the doula who taught our class today is surprised because Erika is riding so low, the clinical exams done by Drs all think Drew was in the correct position, but the ultra sound tells us differently. At 35 weeks, he is running out of time to turn on his own. Bad Drew! One thing that we've been told that works is to put an ice pack near the head of the baby, basically on the fundus. He won't like it, so he'll turn away from it. Ideally we would prefer not to mess with the poor child in the womb, but he's leaving us no choice.
Anyways, here is Erika in the "child pose" taught to us by Nina. It is suppose to help position the baby. She has an ice pack (actually a bag of frozen peppers) on the top of her belly and a heating pad toward the belly. Go toward the heat Drew!!!


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The things we do for our kids!