SoyLatte
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OK so I have a question for those of you who have already had a kid or two naturally.
FTM here and I had a bit of a confusing appointment on Tuesday with my midwife .perhaps I should have asked her to clarify what she said then and there but my husband is always with me and he usually catches stuff and probes hes a D.O. student in his clinical rotations.
Anyways at week 30 or so LO turned herself head down (Yay!) and at my 32 week appointment Midwife was thrilled that she could feel her head pretty snug in the pelvis already. Mind you Im 52 and my pre-pregnancy weight was only 128 so Im not very big in general. All my gain has been directly in the tummy which is bulging out like crazy, Im about 155 now.
Now heres the fun part about this pregnancy, my body has had a severe reaction to the added hormones. Ive been fighting off nausea almost the whole time, its gotten better than the first tri (where I lost 9 lbs cause I couldnt keep food down)but I still throw up at minimum once or twice a week. Additionally there is so much Relaxin in my system that if I lay on my left side for any longer than an hour or two bile from my liver pours into my stomach and I throw up. We figured that out toward the middle of the first tri and I switched to sleeping on my right. It made a huge difference and Ive been totally fine on my right side.
So at this last appointment Tuesday my midwife commented on that fact that LO is mostly on the right side of my uterus, head down. She said I should try sleeping on my left to get her to settle on the left because its shorter for the baby to come out when they are mostly on the left of the uterus as opposed to the right.
Does this make sense to anyone else? Id never heard this before and I cant seem to find anything else on it anywhere online. I gave it a go on Tuesday night accepting that I might have to deal with the bile issue for the last haul of this but I couldnt do it longer than an hour. LO was moving like crazy while I was on the left and it seriously felt awful and sooo, sooo painful. I felt like my uterus was ripping apart from the pubic bone up, I just know if Id stayed that way I wouldnt have slept all night.
Should I stress about this idea that she needs to get to the left instead of the right? Can someone else explain to me what the heck this is all about?
FTM here and I had a bit of a confusing appointment on Tuesday with my midwife .perhaps I should have asked her to clarify what she said then and there but my husband is always with me and he usually catches stuff and probes hes a D.O. student in his clinical rotations.
Anyways at week 30 or so LO turned herself head down (Yay!) and at my 32 week appointment Midwife was thrilled that she could feel her head pretty snug in the pelvis already. Mind you Im 52 and my pre-pregnancy weight was only 128 so Im not very big in general. All my gain has been directly in the tummy which is bulging out like crazy, Im about 155 now.
Now heres the fun part about this pregnancy, my body has had a severe reaction to the added hormones. Ive been fighting off nausea almost the whole time, its gotten better than the first tri (where I lost 9 lbs cause I couldnt keep food down)but I still throw up at minimum once or twice a week. Additionally there is so much Relaxin in my system that if I lay on my left side for any longer than an hour or two bile from my liver pours into my stomach and I throw up. We figured that out toward the middle of the first tri and I switched to sleeping on my right. It made a huge difference and Ive been totally fine on my right side.
So at this last appointment Tuesday my midwife commented on that fact that LO is mostly on the right side of my uterus, head down. She said I should try sleeping on my left to get her to settle on the left because its shorter for the baby to come out when they are mostly on the left of the uterus as opposed to the right.
Does this make sense to anyone else? Id never heard this before and I cant seem to find anything else on it anywhere online. I gave it a go on Tuesday night accepting that I might have to deal with the bile issue for the last haul of this but I couldnt do it longer than an hour. LO was moving like crazy while I was on the left and it seriously felt awful and sooo, sooo painful. I felt like my uterus was ripping apart from the pubic bone up, I just know if Id stayed that way I wouldnt have slept all night.
Should I stress about this idea that she needs to get to the left instead of the right? Can someone else explain to me what the heck this is all about?
