32 Weeks... Fetal Assessment Update

Lets start with another picture...

Here I am at 32 weeks 1 day... taken this afternoon.

I'm now 8 months pregnant and starting to get very tired. I had my fetal assessment on Monday, and things haven't changed for the better at all. As a matter of fact, there is another problem that has been added to my list of pregnancy problems. To recap... about 12 weeks ago we found out that my placenta (I feel like I should be naming it), was low. In theory, it should have moved up into a favorable position, as my uterus grew. I then had a fetal assessment 8 weeks ago, and it was still low. Then a week ago, I had to go to the hospital because I was having horrible pains in my right side under my ribs.... turned out the baby was transverse(horizontal)... creating problem #2 because it was more than likely not going to allow my placenta to move up. So as expected... at the fetal assessment - the baby is transverse, my placenta is low, AND.... the cord is before the baby, laying right where the baby's head should be. Like really... how much more could go wrong? The fetal assessment nurse (I think her name is Luba) said that I am more than likely going to have to have a c-section, and that the cord before the baby is extremely dangerous. If my membranes were to break, we have no idea what would come first... the cord, the placenta or the baby ~ and if it were the baby... which end of the baby. Needless to say, I'm spent. Emotionally drained. My mom spoke with Michelle (a nurse on the high risk side of L&D) and she said that its not uncommon for a doctor to admit the mama a MONTH BEFORE the due date! PARDON ME???? A MONTH????

I have my next dr's appointment tomorrow afternoon. I have a list of questions that I am going to have to ask as this isn't the way it was supposed to go. I will up date tomorrow night after my appointment. I also have another fetal assessment with the Perinatologist on September 24th, which will give us some more insight of where the placenta is in relation to the cervix.

That's about it. Can't say that this pregnancy is borning.... thankfully its a reminder that it will be my last one :)