Tuesday January 12th, 4:00 pm
I awoke from taking a quick cat nap with some cramp like pains. Thinking nearly nothing of it I went to grab a quick snack. Contractions started while I was eating but still I thought nothing of it.. I had felt the pain before and we have already been to the hospital twice with non productive contractions, so I waited to see if anything would come of it.
5:00 pm
At 5pm you will find me sitting on the couch, in the throws of contractions about every 4 minutes apart. The pain had increased and Sterling was now by my side ( he had also been talking a nap when the pain and contractions started.)
I called my Mother and all signs pointed to labor (ahh! could it actually be here! Finally?!)
Heather came home and we all gathered in our bedroom where I lay on the bed timing out every contraction and its length. My contractions were anywhere from 2-5 minutes apart and a minute to a minute and a half long.
11:00 pm
My Mother is speeding down the 210 from her home in Lake Arrowhead to be by my side while I go to the hospital to give birth to my long awaited baby boy. When my Mother got to my house we went to the hospital ( not before I took a shower and had my Mother re-paint my toenails.. you have to be cute while you are sweating and pushing! Everyone is going to see your toes while they are in the air in stirrups!) (And upon me saying stirrups, what am I? A horse?? they can't think of a more dignified name for the things?)
2:00 am Wednesday, January 13th
We arrive at the hospital.
The story is the same every time. I give them a urine sample while I change into a gown. They hook me up to a fetal monitor to monitor the baby and my contractions, but this time the story took a different turn... I was a "fingertip" dilated! I know a fingertip is nothing compared to the 10cm I should be but at least I was dilated!! The nurse calls the on call doctor and he has me walk the halls for an hour to see if that will progress the labor, if it doesn't then its another set of Braxton Hicks contractions and I will be sent home.... So off I go...
3:45 am
I return to my bed after walking the halls for an hour. My contractions are just as strong and frequent and I couldn't be happier to be able to lay down. The nurse checks to see if I am dilated any further and I reach the 1cm mark! yay!!! She also tells me I am about 80% effaced. She leaves to call the doctor on call only to return with doctor orders to walk the halls for another hour!!!
4:20 am
Heather has gone home, Sterling is asleep in the back of my mom's escalade and I am walking the halls of the hospital in some of the worst pain of my life. My Mother is getting tired from walking along side me for the past two hours so she is sitting in the lobby as I do loops around the building... in my hospital gown...
4:45 am
My legs are about to give out from the pain of the contractions and weight from the baby pushing down. I was so excited to be able to return to my bed!!
The nurse returns to my room and hooks me back up to the monitor. She checks to see if i dilated anymore and nothing seemed to change, so she calls the on call once again to see if she should send me home or not.
" Good news!" She walks in saying , "you're staying!" Almost positive I was going to be sent home I can't even explain the amazing feeling I felt knowing that I would be having my baby that day and I was finally going to receive some medicine to help with the pain!!
The nurse leaves to gather the items to hook my IV up and bring me some pain medicine.
5:00 am
Sterling returns from his nap in the car to the news of me staying! "It is time" we both kept telling each other..
The nurse returns to my room and hooks me up to an IV and quickly pushes some medicine into my drip.
I don't know what she gave me... or how much she gave me, but I was completely floored from that drug. I could hardly speak. I could feel the pain of the contractions, but I didn't care. It wasn't my favorite feeling in the world to be that drugged, in fact I believe I had told Sterling that I couldn't stand the feeling of being that drugged. Even though I wasn't happy with the amount of pain medicine running through my body I decided to try and let the drug help me rest a bit. My Mother decided she would rest up too and headed to the car to take a quick nap.
7:00 am
Sterling had fallen asleep on the couch in the room while I was trying to sleep on the drug ( a fruitless endeavor since the drug made me so jumpy)
Dr. Lanter burst trough the door with two other nurses. She checks to see if I have progressed at all and I haven't.
She then tells me that my labor isn't progressing how she would like to see it so she will be sending me home until active labor really sets in.
7:10 am
Devastation.
When doctor Lanter left the room I couldn't stop the tears from rolling down my cheeks. We could have sworn this was it!! I had been admitted and everything and now they are sending me home?! I'm not going to have my baby today?!
My Mother had returned right after the doctor left the room to a sobbing Emily. "Whats wrong?!" She yelled when she saw my face soaking wet and red. I have heard her ask me what's wrong just like that so many times in my life time as I have entered into her room with a bad dream or came home from school after someone had been mean to me on the bus, but nothing ever stung like me telling my Mother that I was being sent home.
The nurse returned with my discharge papers and two Ambien for me to take so when I get home I can sleep.
Through my tears I signed the papers and took the medicine I was given.
She sat me in a wheel chair and escorted me to where Sterling was waiting with the car.
We drove away and about halfway home the Ambien kicked in and I don't remember much after that.
3:00pm
I awake from my mini drug coma feeling completely nauseous and crampy.
The day continued with nausea and cramping.
I never returned to the hospital that day and we are still waiting for our little guy to make his appearance. In the meantime, my uterus punishes me by continuing to ache and contract.
Hopefully we will be back very very soon!!!
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