Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Story Before the Story


I woke up in the middle of the night with contractions.
Strong contractions.
Consistent contractions.
Contractions that kept getting stronger & stronger.
Then I started timing them.
And what would ya know, every 5 minutes apart on the dot.
I was uncomfortable but not in as much pain as I remembered with Luke.

However.
I was 37 weeks with my 3rd baby.
And I live a good 45 minutes away from the hospital speeding.
I have heard the stories that the more babies you have the quicker they come.
And, well. Luke & Logan both came pretty quick as well.
So, I called the on call doctor who gave me the go to come in.

Called Nanny Candace to stay with the boys,
M&M and Bub came over to follow us up.
I was in quite a bit of pain when I had the contractions,
but when the contraction would ease up I felt fine.
Papa even asked if we had to stop by the gas station for coffee & I said no prob.


See? I even felt good enough to take one last baby bump picture before leaving.
I was calm. I knew what to expect. I had this.

I was just at the doctor's office the day before.
I was 70% effaced & 2 cm dilated.
The nurse who checked me when I arrived at the hospital said
that I was 90% effaced & 3 cm dilated.
Progress. Slow, but progress.

I peed in the cup, got hooked up to the machines, and it was go time.
The contractions got stronger and closer together.
Then.
They got farther apart??

The nurse had me get up and walk.
For an HOUR.
As I was walking the contractions got stronger and closer together.
Came back.
The on call doctor checked me.
He said i was 75% effaced & 3 cm dilated.

Um.
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
How did I go backwards?!?

So, he sent me on another walk.
I walked every damn hallway and staircase in the entire hospital.
With the dreaded warning.
"If you don't progress, we are sending you home."

When I got back from my walk, my doctor had arrived.
He checked me & said..... get this!!!
80% effaced & 2 cm dilated.
WTF. Seriously. WTF.

I was absolutely flabberghasted. 
He explained that when someone checks you it is like getting on a scale.
Not all scales are 100% accurate but if you get on the same scale each time,
then you go by that weight.... whatever.

So. With no progress I was sent home.
In pain. And embarrassed. And heartbroken.
It was a long 15 hours at the hospital.
And it felt extremely strange not coming home with a baby.
Huge disappointment :(

At my next doctor's appointment...
my sweet little Greek doctor put me at ease by telling me
the more babies you have, the more your body will go into false labor.
And that I did the right thing by coming to the hospital when I did.
Weird right? Wouldn't you think 1st time moms would be the ones
going into false labor? After all, I have done this once or twice before. 

So for 2 weeks I was miserable in 'false labor' waiting for my precious baby.....

5 comments:

Adrien said...

I've been loving your updates today!! I can't even imagine going to the hospital and not coming home with a baby. No reason to be embarrassed, though! It seemed like my last pregnancy was full of false alarms, too. Maddening!

sblind2 said...

I thought you said your sweet little GEEK doctor ... I'm like what!?!? it's past my bedtime ...

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