When I was 34 weeks pregnant, my blood pressure was becoming more and more problematic.  I was already on “take it as easy as possible” bedrest for two weeks at that point, so I was kind of annoyed.  At my weekly appointment that Wednesday my blood pressure was 170/95, and my doctor was like hmm, that’s not good.  So we ran some tests, and when I got a call back directly from my doctor (instead of his nurse), I knew that was a bad sign. 

Note: Previous birth was a planned c-section because of a breech baby.

At 39 weeks of pregnancy, pressure waves arrived in the middle of the night about 10 minutes apart.  I thought “this is it” but after I got up and ate, they stopped.  I went to my 39 week exam a few hours later.  

My story starts 4 days past my “guess date”. I decided I needed some fun to distract me from anxiously awaiting my baby’s arrival. I saw Blooma was hosting a Belly Mapping and Belly Painting night and thought it would be perfect. During the class we found out our baby was ROT (Right Occiput Transverse), which is considered a posterior position. I was shown a couple of exercises I could do and left feeling a little worried about the position. The next night I headed back to Blooma for my usual Sunday night yoga class with our doula, Lindsay. She gave me the Hypnobabies track “Turn, Posterior Baby, Turn”.