Day of Doctors

Yesterday was a day full of doctors. First we went to see our family physician. He had done some blood work with me and wanted to go over it. Everythign looks great. I have no RH sensitivity, which is what we were specifically looking for since I got the RhoGam shot late after Genesis was born. So that was all good.

Then we went to the ENT for a follow-up on my ear and that Dr gave me a clean bill of health. He said unless I have returning symptoms we're goign to say that I'm healed and I'll never have to see him again. He checked my hearing and everything and that's back to 100% (it was at one point at about 50%) and he said my eared looked perfectly normal and healthy. Yay.

Then we went to see the midwife. Another great appt. She was glad to hear both about the RH and the ear thing. I'm done with antibiotics so we can spend the next 3 months getting myself back into tip-top shape for giving birth. Since our family dr was so willing to help out with the blood work, she wants me to call him and see if we can get some tubes for collecting the baby's blood after it's born and drop it off there to blood type the baby. Then we can see if we need a RhoGam shot of not. I know he's willing to get me in with a Ob/gyn to get the rhogam if I want to go that route, so hopefully he'll be able to do this as well. We could also get the shot through the midwife, but then we have to pay for it at $166. If I go through a Dr, then it's covered by Medicaid. I'm not sure if the hassle with an ob/gyn is worth it yet, we'll decide on that later. It may be our only option depending on finances at the time. We also talked about the things I need to start getting together for the birthing kit. There's a lot of stuff you have to buy to homebirth! Luckily I"m a bit of a pack-rat and still have a lot of things that I saved from the hospital after Canaan was born, so I don't have to buy any of that. Things like a peri-bottle. And last but not least, we dicussed the position of hte baby. The baby is breech right now, not a huge deal, there is still plenty of time for flipping, but this baby has been in that same position for well over a month and seems pretty comfortable there. The others were all head down by now. So we discussed possibly doing an external version next time (I'll be 30wks) if the baby is still breech. I think we're going to try it. It's probably much easier to flip a baby at 30wks then 36wks, and like I said, this baby is pretty comfortable, so I don't know that it will flip on it's own any time soon. If it was flipping back and forth regularly, I would jsut let be, but it's not. It's just staying in that same breech position. So we're goign to try a few more natural things in the next 3wks to get the baby to flip on it's own, hands and knees exercising and things like that, plus just telling the baby to turn. I know some people think that's crazy, but I'm a firm believe that a Mommy's thoughts do influence the baby. There were some experiences with Genesis that just aren't coincidence and had a lot to do with my thoughts. But if the baby is still breech, we'll go ahead and try and flip it and hope it stays.

I think that's about it, health update wise.