Sunday, 19 January 2014

Breeeeeeeeech

Hey strangers! How have you been? Everyone had a fairly decent week I hope?

I've spent a good 90% of the last week on all fours at home. No the floors aren't ridiculously dirty... Baby is breech. 


(Insert diagram for all of you who don't know what that means)

What it means for us is, if baby doesn't do the old flip around sometime soon, homebirth is off the cards. Frustrating is one word for it. Fuck is another.
I've been trying all the general methods, crawling around, elevated hips etc & my chiropractor is also using a method called the "Webster" technique which is supposed to work wonders, but young buck seems to be very stubborn thus far. It's really starting to shake me up in all honesty, I hadn't even entertained the idea of having a c section (although it is always a possibility), and now that time is running out its a real possibility. I'm not down with that idea at all so getting this baby into position is number one priority at the moment. Fingers crossed it happens soon!

Blake has picked up on my weird shenanigans at the moment and has decided to join in also;


Hilarious child.

This past week has also been all about eggs, it's official,  I'm a full blown eggoholic. 

Exhibit A;


As you can see, it's not all good eggs. I may or may not have mowed through two bags of mini creme eggs in two days. 
I did. They are incredible! 
I'm also really digging poachies at the mo- particularly on Vegemite toast. Phenomenal taste explosions in my mouth! Try it I dare you. 

The weekend didn't entail a lot, I had a delicious brunch date with my pal Teesh on Sat & then she kindly babysat Sat eve so Oli and I could go out for some Mexican. It was so good to just sit down with him & have a meal and talk about things other than Blake. And as a bonus the food was delicious; fish tacos hit the spot. Sunday was spent in our usual state of laziness, we watched a movie & made some burgers & caught up on some Skype dates. Well, I did that whilst Oli cleaned out our fridge, bless that boy. He's a catch! 

I came to the realisation last week that my hair is resembling that of a middle-aged crack-whore;



So I should really get that sorted sometime soon. I'm all for dying hair whilst pregnant by the way, there's not actually any solid facts that it does any harm to the baby & I think if your body isn't working in your favour- then at the very least your hairs got to look good. Something I should probably care about more but clearly don't. Does anyone else think, "oh my that looks lovely" for all of 1 day post hairdressers & then proceed to tie it up in a bun every day thereafter? Kind of pointless? Regardless- this trailer trash mess has to be sorted ASAP. 

Oooh I made up the bassinet in the weekend too;


Eeeeeek! It will be hilarious if 'he' is a 'she', but it would also be handy as we still have zero names on our boy list.. Nil. I may have to put 'baby name book' up on the chalkboard this week actually. 

Meanwhile, I'm currently sitting in the park up the road watching Blake hoon around like a madman;


I thought it would be a great idea to get out and get some fresh air and sunshine. Turns out aircon is far more appealing. It is sweltering out here, Blake is as pink as a piglet & you could take a swim in the sweat behind my knees right now. Aborting mission. Back to the blessed refrigerated air at home... 

I would LOVE to go to the beach for a dip to cool off, but is it even legal to go swimming when you look like this?


I'll stick to my cold showers. 

Happy Monday people 

Thought of the day "Ice cream ice cream ice cream"

Gemma 








6 comments:

  1. Have you considered trying for a natural breech birth if he does end up breech? There is a good book apparently by Maggie Banks "Breech birth woman wise"

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    1. Hey Annah, oh cheers for that I'll definitely have a look into it!! Glad you commented actually as I was wanting to grab your email addy, could you send it to me? Gemma.m.warner@hotmail.com

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  2. Whoa! The rigmarole to posting a comment! This is Annah by the way. I don't have a gmail account haha. Aren't husbands great!

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  3. You could give acupuncture a go, there are cases of it helping to turn the baby :)

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  4. It must have frustrated you a lot when you found out that homebirth is out of your options. I can tell how thrilled you were with the idea, but finding out that it may post risks for both you and the baby, is quite heartbreaking. Oh well, safety first, right? By the way, Blake is so funny in trying to mimic your attempt in turning the situation around. She is so adorable! Have a safe pregnancy and delivery! :)

    Alfonso Warren @ Arkansas Pioneer Chiropractic Health Centre

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    1. Hi Alfonso, we actually had a beautiful & safe home birth in march of this year, my story is also up on my blog- baby turned a week after this post. Thanks for taking the time to message :)

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