Just in case anyone doesn’t already know… I’m PREGGERS! :-p Now that we’ve established that I should probably fill you all in on what I’ve been stressing about the past couple of days.
The question of whether or not I can have my home birth experience that I so longingly desire or really even a vaginal birth has been brought up due to some underlying health issues. I want to be clear that as of so far baby and I have been progressing just fine with no complications. (Unless you count the bad side affects to pregnancy. :-p) Nothing has changed in the pregnancy or my health to cause concern.
The biggest issues lie in the fact that I have a minor case of spina bifida and there has been a cousin of mine diagnosed with a blood clotting disorder with the abbreviation of MTHFR. My wonderful midwife pleaded my case for a good two hours yesterday and they finally came to a collective decision to allow me to see some specialist at the university. The next plan is for me to see this person to simply be cleared for a vaginal birth. I’m not sure what all tests they will run, but one good and likely test will probably include a level 2 ultra sound on baby. 
I’m all for ultra sounds, and even more for u/s that show more. 
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One of the things that our midwife explained for why they are concerned with the spina bifida is that apparently depending on location and severity there is a risk of a rupture I guess. The rupture can happen during the pushing from all the extra pressure. Sounds crazy, but I guess it can happen??? The spina bifida is also something that can be passed on to baby, so that’s why we’ll likely be getting that other u/s.
For now we are proceeding with the original plan of a home birth with our midwife until we are told otherwise. We will likely find out when our first appt is tomorrow, and we really have no idea as to how many we’ll have with this person or when to expect a final determination. We ask for prayers that I and baby pass all tests that they may do and that we can be cleared for a VAGINAL birth AT HOME! We also ask for prayers that no matter the outcome we will have understanding and acceptance of the decision made. I think one of my biggest issues that came from finding things out on Sunday night was that I simply could not make sense of the reasoning for most of what was being said. I understand more now and some things have already been dropped as issues thankfully. This helps me accept the situation as it is for now. It’s also nice to know that I have the chance to prove I’m not a high risk preggers vs. it just being assumed that I am w/o actual evidence to back some feared assumptions up.
A ginormous THANK YOU to all that have been praying for us the past couple of days with or w/o knowing what’s been going on! You couldn’t gift us with anything better! (The encouraging words are nice too.) 
