Setting the Record Straight

With my impending delivery, I have heard a lot of comments about my last delivery and have come to realize one thing. Most people don't know the correct version of Kalianna's birth story. I posted it two years ago after she was born, but apparently over the last two years people have become confused. So I am here to set the record straight.

On March 31, 2009 I posted about how I would be going in the next day to have them try and turn Kalianna, because she was breech. And I jokingly stated that if she was born the next day, it was not an April Fools joke. It was because the procedure had put me in labor. This is where I think a lot of people got confused. Little did I know, Kalianna had an April Fools joke of her own planned.

The next day, April 1, 2009 I stayed home from work and rested, in preparation for the procedure. Despite the rest, I was having mild contractions all day. By the time I picked up Matt and we arrived at the hospital that afternoon, I was already in labor. They gave me some medicine to try and calm my uterus and slow things down, but despite that, I still had contractions throughout the whole process. They couldn't get Kalianna to turn because I was having contractions the whole time. When I arrived at the hospital, I was dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced. Half an hour later, after they had tried to turn her and failed, I was a 4 and 90% effaced. That's when Dr. Brown told me it was time for a C-section. I was progressing too quickly and they obviously couldn't send me home that night.

I think because of my post the day before she was born, people had just assumed that's what happened. Not true. I was in labor when they started the procedure. The procedure did not cause me to go into labor. Kalianna would have been born April 1st whether I had them try and turn her or not.