Your Essential Health

A very merry Christmas from our family to yours. 💚❤️🤍

Isaiah 9:6: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

34 week ultrasound today 🧡 Baby #3 is measuring to be our biggest baby yet 🙈 head is 97 percentile & overall 91 percentile …currently 6 lb 2 oz..😳😵‍💫 which is greatttt news that baby is super healthy. But this does make my chances of vbac slimmer. Doctor said I have a 50% chance & says for vbac it would be ideal for him to come in 2-3 weeks…

Not going to lie as soon as the doctor said that I started feeling doubtful, and less confident in the challenge of pursuing a vbac. Putting my trust in God’s provision & plan for what is to come. Until then.. I better hurry and get some diapers! 😂

Child birth ✨

Well after 2 c-section experiences I’ve decided to attempt for a VBAC this time around.

To be honest, I didn’t think it was an option. “Once you have a c-section don’t you have to have another??”

My first birth was quite the roller coaster. 40 hours of labor and 3 hours of pushing ended in an emergency c-section along with Sawyer being in the NICU. It was wild 😵‍💫 and post in itself. After that, I was a bit disappointed not because I didn’t give birth. Really regardless I knew I did. But because I felt like my body couldn’t finish the job it started.

With my 2nd I didn’t even think twice when scheduling my C-section. I felt so defeated after my experience with our first. My provider at the time didn’t offer VBAC and made me feel like it would never be an option…

3rd baby, new provider & building a new confidence.. I’m going for it. It’s going to take some healing of my first birth but I feel hopeful. I always say ‘you don’t know what your capable of until you try’. So here goes nothing. Due date is still August 8th but the goal is to naturally go into labor & have baby the second half of July. 🤞🏼😬

If you know any helpful resources, advice/tips, heck just some encouragement that would be great. I’ll take any & all! 😬

If you have personally have experience with VBAC or TOLAC I would love hear about your experience 🥰