**Brownie**

Harper'smom

I am thinking good thoughts for you. I hope your baby is here and you are both doing well!!

Brownie_222

You are so sweet to think of me.  It took me a while to get my birth story down, but I just posted it.  This board was so helpful to me along the way and reading VBAC stories always gave me more confidence.  I'm glad to have had this resource! Hope you're feeling well?

Harper'smom

Brownie_222:

You are so sweet to think of me.  It took me a while to get my birth story down, but I just posted it.  This board was so helpful to me along the way and reading VBAC stories always gave me more confidence.  I'm glad to have had this resource! Hope you're feeling well?

I'm good, thanks. A little rattled by the NT scan yesterday. Baby is measuring ahead/the tech wants to bump my due date back by almost a week but I hope my MW will let me keep the same date. The early date is impossible...And I saw you replied to my anterior placenta question on the NB board so yeah my placenta is anterior which is not my preference but I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. Like your bith story said, confidence is key. A really large posterior baby is not preferred! :-)

Brownie_222

Harper'smom:

Brownie_222:

You are so sweet to think of me.  It took me a while to get my birth story down, but I just posted it.  This board was so helpful to me along the way and reading VBAC stories always gave me more confidence.  I'm glad to have had this resource! Hope you're feeling well?

I'm good, thanks. A little rattled by the NT scan yesterday. Baby is measuring ahead/the tech wants to bump my due date back by almost a week but I hope my MW will let me keep the same date. The early date is impossible...And I saw you replied to my anterior placenta question on the NB board so yeah my placenta is anterior which is not my preference but I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. Like your bith story said, confidence is key. A really large posterior baby is not preferred! :-)

I see where you're coming from about the anterior placenta.  I had the same worry but my MW put me at ease and said not to spend time worrying about it.  It's one of those things that you can try to influence with posture, certain exercises, etc... BUT, at the end of the day I put baby's position under my "things I can't necessarily control" column.   Some babies are posterior during pregnancy and turn anterior during labor, some are the exact opposite.  So, I would try not to worry.  About the "big" baby, how much did your DD weigh?  I know lots of Moms have had "big" babies vaginally, so try to keep your faith there, too.  At the end of the day those growth measurements can be a bit inaccurate.  My first was supposed to be a big baby based on a 36 week ultrasound, but he came out a whopping 6 lbs, 15 oz!  

I would think they'd only move your date if the ultrasound was +/- 10 days from your LMP date.  It sounds like you're doing all the right things and I hope that in talking with your MW she'll stick with your original EDD and reassure you that things will be fine.  It is so hard to not worry (I did a ton), but remember that you are going to give this all you've got.  You can do it! 

Harper'smom

My suspected "fetal macrsomic" baby was 7lbs 14oz. I'm pretty tiny, 5ft, 93lbs pre-pregnancy. DH is 6ft 4, 220 - 10lbs at birth. So we could run the gamut in terms of size. I'm much at ease this time knowing that I'm not going to make a 10 or 11 pound baby. My instincts say this baby will vary 1/2-3/4 of a lb in either direction.

Brownie_222

Harper'smom:

My suspected "fetal macrsomic" baby was 7lbs 14oz. I'm pretty tiny, 5ft, 93lbs pre-pregnancy. DH is 6ft 4, 220 - 10lbs at birth. So we could run the gamut in terms of size. I'm much at ease this time knowing that I'm not going to make a 10 or 11 pound baby. My instincts say this baby will vary 1/2-3/4 of a lb in either direction.

Trust your instincts- I think you're right!