birth plan Archives - fiftytwothursdays https://fiftytwothursdays.us/tag/birth-plan/ style + fitness Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:59:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 My Birth Story https://fiftytwothursdays.us/uncategorized/my-birth-story/ https://fiftytwothursdays.us/uncategorized/my-birth-story/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:59:12 +0000 https://fiftytwothursdays.us/?p=19414 Cesarian Recovery and Birth Story Get ready, this is a long one! On August 24th, 2020 I had a scheduled cesarean for my breech baby. This was not my birth plan however my cute but very stubborn baby seemed to be quite comfortable head up. I found this out at 37 weeks and googled all the best practices to try and flip him. We pulled out the surf board from the garage (as we don’t have an iron board) to do the iron board trick. My heart burn absolutely hated this but I sucked it up, literally to do all that I could. I practically wore an ice pack on the top of my belly all day and even played sweet music for him down there to “lure” him towards the right way.  On August 12th I had an ECV preformed which is an External cephalic version. A manual procedure by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first. This extremely uncomfortable and painful procedure did not work as well. In fact it lead to some very strong contractions afterwards that kept me in the hospital 5 hours after for the fear […]

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]]> https://fiftytwothursdays.us/uncategorized/my-birth-story/feed/ 0 What I Packed In My Hospital Bag https://fiftytwothursdays.us/style/packed-hospital-bag/ https://fiftytwothursdays.us/style/packed-hospital-bag/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:00:35 +0000 http://www.fiftytwothursdays.us/?p=15374 What I packed In My Hospital Bag … I still can’t believe my due date is coming up in 2 weeks. It’s true what they say about the last trimester, it flies right by. So I have been doing anything and everything to prep for the big day, the day we get to welcome our sweet baby girl in to this world! I’m excited, and of course naturally scared. The only thing to settle my nerves is to prep as much as I can. From washing and folding her little clothes in size order to re-packing and adding to my overnight bag. I don’t want to forget anything and want to make sure everything goes as smooth as possible. At least what I can control! For all you gorgeous mama’s to be, I’m sharing what I have packed in my hospital bag. Tips from mom friends or items recommended online helped inspire me to conjure up my ready-to-go bag. For the mama’s who have already lived and learned, I would love to hear from you! Did I forget anything? Anything I should add to make my experience a little more relaxing or tolerable? Tell me, tell me!! Birth Plan (If you have one) […]

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