Morning, thank you for your messages yesterday .
My consultant said that baby's bum is quite low in my pelvis and while he was palpating my tummy (without telling me), he tried to lift the baby up... that was painful and made me feel really ill. . He said my stomach muscles were very hard (even asked if I did exercises , as if!), he said usually with baby number 5, he'd just press down at the bottom of my bump and baby would pop up higher, letting him turn baby easily, but she was settled down there.
I told him that I didn't want the ecv, but he'd already invited two students into watch him "perform a successful ecv". I had to be quite firm and tell him I wanted to ask him quite a lot of questions before I agreed to it next week. He seemed quite disappointed that he was not going to impress the students, although he was very nice.
He said there's a 50% chance of baby turning before next Monday when I am booked in for the ecv. I'm not looking forward to the muscle relaxant injection or another dose of Anti-D . Something else he said worried me, he said sometimes he can be sweating trying to turn a baby, all with no pain relief for the mum . I wonder if I could ask for gas and air while he does it, think I'll need it. Positive turning vibes my way please .