cesarean recovery Archives - fiftytwothursdays https://fiftytwothursdays.us/tag/cesarean-recovery/ style + fitness Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:59:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 My Birth Story https://fiftytwothursdays.us/uncategorized/my-birth-story/ https://fiftytwothursdays.us/uncategorized/my-birth-story/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:59:12 +0000 https://fiftytwothursdays.us/?p=19414 Cesarian Recovery and Birth Story Get ready, this is a long one! On August 24th, 2020 I had a scheduled cesarean for my breech baby. This was not my birth plan however my cute but very stubborn baby seemed to be quite comfortable head up. I found this out at 37 weeks and googled all the best practices to try and flip him. We pulled out the surf board from the garage (as we don’t have an iron board) to do the iron board trick. My heart burn absolutely hated this but I sucked it up, literally to do all that I could. I practically wore an ice pack on the top of my belly all day and even played sweet music for him down there to “lure” him towards the right way.  On August 12th I had an ECV preformed which is an External cephalic version. A manual procedure by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first. This extremely uncomfortable and painful procedure did not work as well. In fact it lead to some very strong contractions afterwards that kept me in the hospital 5 hours after for the fear […]

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