I was hoping for some reassurance from other posters who have been in a similar situation please.
I am currently nearly 35 weeks pregnant. Due to complex health conditions and disabilities my consultants had recommended a C-section at 39 weeks. I am also having regular growth scans. Despite this being a high-risk pregnancy my baby is thankfully growing and developing well and I have had a mercifully uneventful pregnancy so far.
I attended my growth scan today and, during the consultation which followed, the consultant informed me that the team had had a meeting about my case a few days previously and, due to concerns about delivering our baby safely if I were to go into labour early, they were now advising me to have a section at 38 weeks to mitigate the likelihood of an emergency section which would be hard for anaesthetists to manage due to my conditions.
Also, while our baby is still growing well, thank god, she is currently in a transverse position, the same as in my last scan a couple of weeks ago and the consultant thinks she is unlikely to move much now. The consultant said that, if she is still in a transverse position during my next scan in two weeks time, they will admit me to hospital immediately and I will stay in until my C-section a week later due to an increased risk of placental prolapse if my waters were to break early with baby in that position,
In practice, this would only mean me being in hospital for a week prior to delivery so it isn't a big deal. The consultant has also assured us that delivering at 38 weeks is not much different to delivering at 39 weeks, just a slightly increased chance of baby needing supplementary oxygen, but this is apparently a risk with C-section deliveries anyway so we are not too concerned about delivery being brought forward a week.
What I am worried about, however, is my waters breaking in the next twelve days given our baby's transverse presentation. Has anybody else had experience of this and anything I should be looking out for. This is our first baby so I'm terrified of missing very early signs of labour and potentially facing a medical emergency if I don't get to hospital in time. I'm planning on taking it very easy over Christmas. We're going to my in-laws who don't live far away so in reasonable distance of the hospital and we'll be spending most of our time there eating and watching tv, so nothing exactly strenuous, I'm just getting anxious now we're getting so close to baby arriving and I'm terrified of everything going wrong at the last minute. Any advice would be gratefully received. Thanks.