Back At 'Em

After a week of extreme caution and virtual bedrest, trying to get my contractions to slow down, I had a doctor appointment on Friday and they checked "things" out. Everything is looking good! I've had no dilation to speak of since I left the hospital, so nobody is worried anymore. It looks like the pre-term labor of last week was an isolated incident due to the stomach flu (or whatever), and I'm back to being a normal 3rd trimester twin pregnant person. Which means I'm not very mobile and it hurts to walk around, but there's no danger in it, which is awesome.

I celebrated the good news this morning by prepping a couple of garden beds for planting. I had assumed before that I might not be able to plant a garden this year, which would be so tragic! So I got all stoked at the idea of putting peas in the ground. I admit, after about 5 minutes of shoveling dirt and turning it with a pitchfork I realized how ridiculous this idea was (I mean, come on. I can hardly walk by now, danger to fetuses or not). But Jared helped me out and we got a couple beds mulched and ready to go. I spent the next loooooong time sitting in a reclining lawn chair gasping for breath while my hip joints trembled and attempted to relax.

Seville climbed all over me, bounced around, sang songs, and peed on the lawn while I lay there (with my permission, nay, even at my suggestion, because I didn't think I could walk up the deck and into the house with her. Am I a bad parent?). The chickens got a little break from their coop and scratched and pecked in our yard for a while. It was a great day.

Oh, and the OTHER great news is that Baby "A" turned around and got his head down last week. Not that I needed them to tell me that - it was quite an event. It happened Thursday night and it sent me grasping myself and lying on the couch to recuperate. Afterward I could tell by the types of movement I felt in which places that he had turned around. Anyway, this means I'm officially in the game of being able to attempt a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). I chose my doctor, hospital, and everything based on NOT wanting another C-Section, which is what 99% of doctors will automatically do if you have both a previous C-Section AND twins in there.  But there are criteria, and the first is that the first baby needs to be head down. So I was happy about that too (now, if Baby "B" could only turn around, it would makes things easier still).