YAY!!!!

IT WORKED! He isn't breech anymore. I don't know if it was the prayers, acupuncture, moxibustion, exercises, mopping my floors several times on my hands and knees or what.. and I don't really care but I'm am SO HAPPY it worked. I am so over the moon with excitement that I can hardly contain myself from bubbling over.

Many thanks to everybody that has kept us in your thoughts and prayers! Now we can enjoy a nice count down to my due date (3 weeks from today) and hope for a smooth and uncomplicated delivery.

That's all for now.. Jacob and I are off to go swimming.

Baby update and... needles?!

I only have a few minutes, so I'll be brief. My baby is breech which means that his head is up in my rib cage and not down my pelvis like it should be. I'm 36 weeks pregnant today so I don't have a lot of time to get him to move. My midwife suggested I use moxibustion, specific exercises and acupuncture to help him turn. She also referred me to the surgeon they work with because if he doesn't turn with these other measures then I have the option of the surgeon doing and external cephalic version where she manually turns him (if tests show he is a good "candidate" for it, ie: there is enough amniotic fluid, location of the placenta, and his cord isn't wrapped around him which they will check through ultrasound). If all this fails I will most likely be schedule to deliver via c-section.

Because I really like holistic medicine, and I'm willing to try just about anything, I decided to take advantage of acupuncture to help possibly turn him. Today was my first appointment and it was... uneventful. I had in my mind this vision of candles, music, weird smells and a Chinese guy sticking needles in me. Well, it turned out it was in a regular exam room like what I'm used to and it was an American guy. He asked me why I was there and what I was hoping to achieve, I told him and he had me lay on the exam table with a foam cushion under my knees and very unceremoniously proceeded to insert 8 needles into various parts of my extremities and one in the top of my head. Then he said he was going to let me rest for 30 minutes and turned off the lights and left the room. When he came back he took out the needles, asked if I felt some active fetal movement and then said I was done and he would see me again on Thursday. That was it! It didn't hurt at all and the baby did bounce off the walls more than he usually does.. so here's hoping.

Statistically there are more breech clubfoot babies than "normal" babies, so I'm not too surprised. But still keep us in your prayers... we will have so much to do after he is born to help him out that I really don't want to have to be recovering from a c-section on top of it all. Of course in the end the health and safety of my baby is paramount, but I will do everything in my power to help him on my own and have the peace of mind knowing I did all I can do and the rest is up to God.

Concert Time

Last night my friend Mettina and I went to see Leann Rimes and Kenny Chesney in concert. We went to dinner beforehand and enjoyed talking and not having kids to manage. I was worried it would rain since it had been off and on all day and it did rain on the drive there but stopped just as we got to our exit and it didn't rain again the rest of the night, so luckily we didn't get soaked.

Leann Rimes was ok, her vocals were great and she played a fun set list but she didn't put on much of a show. Kenny, as always, rocked the house. This was my third time seeing him in concert and he is a lot of fun. He had been playing for an hour when he mentioned that he was just getting started, surprised to hear him say that so far into the show I checked the time and it was 10:05 pm. Since we had a 30 min. drive home and Mettina's mom who was watching her kids also had a 30 min. drive home, we decided to leave by 10:20. By the time we got to the car (it was such a long walk) it was 10:40 and we could still hear him going strong - I wonder when he eventually ended. I was so wiped out! Being 34 weeks pregnant and sitting on a lawn for that long wasn't very comfortable, but I am glad I went and thank my brother John for giving me the tickets to go. Also, thanks to Brent for taking care of Jacob so I could enjoy an evening out. This will most likely be the last concert I will be able to go to for a very long time.