I feel like I am getting jipped! I have been in the hospital three times this week (that's right, count it, three times!) and been told I would be induced that day and every time I come home. My blood pressure has been all kinds of wonky up and down and my doctor is now really concerned about pre-ecclampsia so I have to keep going in and getting labs done and monitoring. On Sunday when my blood pressure spiked at home I called my doctor who told me to meet her in L&D and if my bp was up she wanted to induce me because it had steadily risen over the last week. I got to L&D and did all kinds of monitoring and she said she was happy with where my blood pressure had leveled out to and that I could go home but to follow up the next day with her in her office. When I got to her office she did about 5 minutes of monitoring and told me that things looked okay, she was waiting for the results of my 24 hour urine collection and we would see from there what to do next.
Fast forward to Thursday when I went in for my next appointment and NST. My blood pressure was up at 140/100 and would not move at all. It was that for three consecutive readings so she told me and my mom (someone always goes to my appointments now just in case) to head to L&D and asked if I had my hospital bag with me because she was thinking induction because my blood pressure would not budge. We talked about how long the process would take and whether or not I should call Tim out of work (she said it would be a while and if I had to get an emergency c-section he would have enough time to make it to the hospital). Well Mom and I got to the hospital and got my blood drawn, hooked up to the NST and all that jazz. My dad called my mom from the hospital at work because he had a 2200 lb box car door fall on him and the only reason he wasn't crushed was because a good friend happened to be driving by with a fork lift and caught part of it THANK GOD! He was going to leave to come to the hospital but the work doctor wouldn't let him leave because his bp was up from being in pain/the whole incident and she wanted to leave the moist heat packs on him for a while longer. Needless to say he can barely move this weekend and has to go tomorrow to the doctor for a follow up because he now has a lovely bulge in his back :/
Anyways, after a few hours the doctor said my labs came back okay but she wanted me to come back on Saturday because I was showing signs of developing pre-e and she wanted to do monitoring and a repeat of all my labs as she was sure I would officially be pre-e then and told the nurse to tell me that if my labs had changed be prepared to be induced. Again, with that damn I word!
Yesterday morning Tim took me in to L&D just like we were supposed to but I had a feeling we would be going home and sure enough I was right. Somehow my labs got better???? I have ZERO protein in my urine? I have been trying to rest as much as possible and have been drinking mega amounts of water for me but I was shocked to find out that things looked 'perfect' (nurse's words). She said to follow up with my doctor again at my next appointment (Monday) and see what she had to say. My blood pressure was up to 147/87 but the doctor and nurse were okay with this if I rested. No one has told me bed rest yet, just to take it easy, but I feel like I keep getting myself mentally prepared to have a baby and then the plan changes. I know it is great that he can stay in there longer as everyday matters but I am a little disappointed that after all of these trips in expecting to be giving birth I haven't yet. I just need to keep reminding myself to focus on the positive and know that it is what is best for DJ.
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