I’ve been on bedrest now for 6 days now. I’m not very good at it. I enjoy laying around for a little bit at the time, but then I get the gitz. The first day of bedrest I was getting all the last minute stuff done that I needed to and since then I have been a little bit better adjusted. So I lay down for as long as I can stand it and then it’s time to eat, or pee, or let the dogs out. That can’t hurt, right!
Last doctor’s appointment I was told I needed to do another 24-hour urine sample. So I did that Wednesday to Thursday morning. I dropped it off Thursday morning and yesterday once Ja got off work we headed back for our appointment. Man were we SO unprepared for that visit.
We got to the doctor’s office and a nurse that we are not fond of took my blood pressure. She gave us a big dissertation last time we were there about using the proper sized cuff to get your blood pressure right. I told her that they use the larger one more times than not with me and she told me her reasons for using the smaller one. So she took my blood pressure and it was 140’s over 96. Not good. After a few minutes of laying down with the lights off another woman came in and used the bigger cuff and got 120’s over 96. Even though it came down, that bottom number was still high. The NP came in and told me that my protein levels from my urine check were 319 and since 300 is the magic number, pre-eclampsia may have set in. She checked me and I was only 1 cm, so she decided to strip my membranes. Good Lord was that uncomfortable. Then she informed us that we were going to head to the hospital to get monitored and checked and possibly induced at some point in the near future. WHAT?! Even though we know that she is going to come out at some point and we are going to have to go to the hospital for that to happen, we just so weren’t expecting those words to come out of her mouth.
Our heads started spinning. We started listing the things that we hadn’t gotten done and the things we needed to pack and how Ja was going to get the bags since we were going straight to the hospital. We had nothing. We also were worried about who to call and what to tell them since we didn’t know much. Our doctor was paged and we were sent over to the hospital. We got into Ja’s truck and I just kept saying, ‘Holy shit’ over and over again. This was really happening. I called Leslie and let her know since we were originally planning to go over there after our appointment and then I called Mom to let her know we were heading to the hospital, but to stay put and we’d update her when we knew anything.
We checked in and they sent us to triage for monitoring. We were in there for about an hour and a half. My blood pressure magically went down to 116/62 (it is usually 120/80) and Caroline’s heart was beating right in the normal range. Our doctor came in and discussed with us our options. He said if they ran my urine at the hospital, there is a chance it would be below 300 which would get me out of the pre-eclampsia range and since my blood pressure was now normal, it really didn’t look like inducing would be a very good option. She is also still locked up pretty high (-3 station) and not looking like she’s planning on coming out on her own any time soon. He said that if we did induce, there is a chance it would turn into a c-section since I have not really progressed at all. So he suggested that we just be patient. I don’t have any preconceived ideas about what I definitely want to happen or not to happen. I trust the doctors that we go to and since I am not a medical profession at all, I fully trust what they say. I am not uncomfortable and I want her to cook as long as possible. The only thing that sucks is that I’m wasting my maternity leave with her not being here yet. BUT, I know there is nothing I can do about it. So we agreed with him that there was no need to force this.
They sent us home and we called everyone to let them know that nothing was going to happen. Mom was already in Burgaw, so she turned around and went back home! Homegirl doesn’t play around with these babies being born!
As of right now, the game plan is to do ANOTHER 24-hour urine collection Sunday morning to Monday morning and I will drop that off and go back to see the doctor Monday afternoon. We WILL have our bags packed and with us just in case they send us to the hospital after that appointment. They really want for her to come on her own or at least drop down some so she is more in the position to be born if they induce, but we’ll see. This is something that will happen on her time and she is already making sure that this is an exciting process for everyone! If this is a glimpse into her little personality, then we are in trouble!!
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