The Once and Future Blog

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Friday, April 01, 2005

Luckily, Sunday night's crappy sleep was not the herald of things to come. Sleeping on my side is once again manageable - yay!

I think the little guy is lying sideways. For a while now, I've seemed to feel most of the movement far to each side, often on both sides at once. He gets particularly squirmy when I lie on one side. The other night I was lying on my left side, and he started pogoing - I felt like he was going to pop out of my left side, while at the same time Andy could see the blankets moving on my RIGHT side. Then the next morning when I woke up, he had the hiccups. I could feel them on the left side instead of at the bottom, where I think they would be if he were head down.

So I'm not sure, but I'm starting to think that his head is at my left side and his feet are at my right. This is called being transverse breech, and at almost 32 weeks it's apparently nothing to worry about yet. He still has time to flip over - from what I've read, the doctors don't start worrying about position until around 36 weeks or so. If he's still in the wrong place at that point, they might try to turn him via an external version; if that doesn't work, I'd have a C section. Strangely, this prospect doesn't really worry me. If I have to, I have to - thousands of women have done it before me, and the object is a healthy baby.

If I didn't know better, I'd think I was carrying this baby in my face, which has swelled up to about twice its normal size in the last few weeks. Also, today I put on my demi-panel khakis and had to take them off again. I've been making a gradual move from demi-panel to over-belly pants, and I think these were the last holdouts. I'm wearing a dress today and while it's so comfortable, all I can hear is my brother's voice asking "So, are you wearing a muumuu yet?"

posted by Tricia | 11:07 AM