So here is how the story ends or begins... :)

I had the ecv (External Cephalic Version) (more on that in my next post)
They turned the baby at the hospital my midwife, the OB she works with and another midwife as well as Chris and my parents all made the trip to St. Luke's Hospital to basically shove and push the baby head down.... Now since I had extremely positive results (read on) I am happy I had the procedure- If something had went wrong or she would not have turned I would be very upset I went through the pain and discomfort to have this procedure.... If a natural home birth is how you truly believe birth is supposed to happen then this procedure is for you...If you are having your baby in a hospital and remotely think an epidural is something you want- don't put yourself through the pain of this procedure- Just have a c-section. Odds are you may end up with one anyway-

One intervention normally leads to another so you could possibly end up with surgery anyway- But enough on the crappy part of the post now on to the good part....

So she is now head down due March 19th :) March 19th comes and goes no baby...My water breaks we think March 21 Weds at about 10 pm...No contractions nothing really. My sweet husband puts his homebirth DAD action plan in place and gets busy with his chores. Filling the tub, putting the plastic between the sheets in the bed, getting my Emergen-C to drink, lighting candles, playing CDs...But we got nothing- No contractions at all.

We get up Thursday morning and go see the midwife- she is unsure whether my water has broken or not but does like the 30th sonogram I have had this pregnancy (BTW Sonograms not good for babies- sounds like a Jackhammer in your uterus to them- Lots of research on this)
and she sees plenty of fluid still for the baby....So we go home and pretty much don't worry about anything. By about 8 pm Thursday night I am having contractions but nothing organized or regular. I put the boys to bed and head off to bed myself....I easily fall asleep and through out the night start to have contractions while sleeping. They are becoming more serious and regular.

By 3 AM I wake up get out of bed and start timing them- They are about 7 minutes apart. I start laboring on the toliet my second favorite place to be while in labor. I wait to make sure they are going to stay like that and call my midwife around 4 AM. She stops by her office to get her appointment book in case she needs to cancel her AM appointments b/c I am labor and then is heading over. I let her know I am going to get in the tub (mostest favoritest place to be).

Once I get in the tub, the contractions get closer together and stronger. They go from about 7 minutes to about 3 minutes and then they are one on top of another and I have about 2 or 3 I feel like I can't get "on top of/control" (transition) By this time it is about 430/445 AM. I have about 4 really pushy type contractions- Then I feel her head emerge- I yell to Chris the "BABY IS HERE" He comes running into the bedroom with my mom (both who are totally surprised the baby is here and the midwife isn't) and on the next contraction I push the rest of her body out bring her up to my chest and DUDE we have ourselves a new baby! About 5 minutes later my midwife comes in :)

Fiona Frances is the most amazing thing ever- She is petite and beautiful. Her brothers were 9 pounds- She was just over 7 pounds. Dark black hair and looks great in the color pink.

Moral of the story: Any pain or discomfort she caused me during pregnancy is completely forgiven and I can't wait to share her birth story with her so that some day she will know just how powerful women are and what amazing things we can do!

We weren't going to find out and then we weren't going to tell but...

Baby #3 is a GIRL! and She is stubborn and a pain just like her mother- She is breech and won't turn-
So send all your Turn Turn Turn! messages my way!
I do NOT WANT A CSECTION!
I want to have a nice peaceful birth with my first and odds are only daughter!
This pregnancy has been a rough one- I have had kidney stones, an UTI and now a breech presentation-
Breech isn't that bad if someone here in Jacksonville FL would agree to deliver her!
I am thinking still of going to "the FARM" in TN and having her deliver by Ina May-
If you want to learn more google it-- Buy Spritiual Midwifery- Read it! It is how birth is supposed to be-