07-3-2009 - 36 week Check Up/Scare

My mood while writing this blog: Okay

Hey to all my Mommies out there and Mommies-to-be!

Hope everyone is doing well!!! I had tried to post a blog earlier and I had received an error message and it looked like it had erased my blog so I just decided to walk away from the computer for a while and then try it again later. But, when I came back, I looks like part of my blog got posted and part of it didn't so... I just erased it and here is the second go.

Yesterday I went in for my 36 week Dr's Appointment. Nothing too out of the ordinary, my weight hadn't changed, my blood pressure had rizen just a little bit but still borderline at 138/94 and the heartbeat was nice and strong. My doctor, not completely satisfied with my blood pressure decided that she wanted to check me again before I left for home, however, the only cuff they could use was a very small one for women with very thin arms since the one they had used before had gone missing. Anyway, she is testing me as I'm standing, ready to walk out of the joint when the nurse gives her a look like, "ah oh" and proceeds to tell the doctor that I'm now 15?/ 100. Not good. So my doctor gets very concerned, calls over to labor and delivery at the hospital that I'm having my baby at and tells them I'm on my way to have test run. She tells me that she wants me to go over there to do their test and make sure its just the difference in cuff sizes and not anything else just to be on the safe side. She also tells me that she wants me on bed rest for the remainder of my pregnancy. I said, bed rest until the 30th??? And she said yes, but she thinks I'll go well before then. Anyway, I start getting a little teary because I know if I go on bedrest, this is over $2000 that my husband and I won't have towards bills since I don't get paid while on maternity leave. So the doctor asks me whats wrong and I tell her and she say the only way she will let me off of bedrest is if all my results at the hospital come back okay and if I go out and buy a b/p monitor and check my blood pressure constantly throughout the day until Tuesday when she will schedule my next appointment. She said, she really doesn't want to end up having to induce me because my cervix is tightly closed and that ups the chances of me having a c-section. So, feeling a little better about the bedrest, I head over to labor and delivery. Before getting to the right floor, I stop off and use the restroom since I'm just thinking I'm going over here and getting my blood pressure done and that's it. Boy was I off!!! I get on the main floor and I have to wait for someone in admissions to see me. Then once in admissions, I'm told that I have to have a urine sample done (oops) and blood taken and the have to wait for my results to come back from lab before my doctor gives me the go head to even go home that night! So, I do admissions (which turns out to be a good thing because now all the paperwork is on file and signed for when I actually do go into labor) and then they send me back to triage (sp?) and I have to strip down, put on my lovely little gown and get hooked up to all these various monitors. And of course, at that point, I had had like 6 cups of water to try to get myself to pee again so, I'm having to go every 5 seconds and they are having to hook me up and unhook me then hook me back up. My husband sees this so much that he ends up taking over for the nurses and is a pro at doing it before we go! Anyway, needless to say, my blood and urine come back just fine, and my blood pressure 3 hours later is 134/74 at a sitting position. So I was given the green light to go home and now I just wait until my tuesday's appointment. Joy. Oh, my Strep B test results were neg. so that was good:) You know, after going through everything last night and scaring my family and husband, I really don't want to do anything that would start me going into early labor. I mean prior to all this happening, I was going to have eggplant parm last night for dinner and possibly have sex with the hubby next week to get the ball rolling but... not now!!! I realized there is just so much we still need to do before this baby comes. Paychecks that need to be earned, clothes that need to be put away, house that needs to be cleaned... just so much. I'll be happy when she decides to come on her own because I will know that's the way it was meant to be, but... I just pray, we don't have to go in early for something crazy like blood pressure or anything else. Going from appointment to hospital was NOT fun. It was scary. Soooo... that's my report. Sorry it was so long! Everyone... love and baby dust to you all. I usually say labor dust but... I'm putting that on the shelf for a little bit. Too scared to go near it for now:)