Okay, I'm done sugar coating this whole bedrest thing. It is awful. I am on week four of not making food for myself, going days with out setting foot outside, letting the dogs eat trash because otherwise I would have to chase them. I constantly do not feel well and sleep about 3-4 hours a night. This is a true test of my patience which I have always lacked. Not to mention extrememly depressing. Chris is working is butt off to make sure the house is clean and I eat and trying to get ready for this baby. He still needs to install the car seat in his car and pack his hospital bag and lots of other things. At this point I can go at anytime so we are trying to be ready.I still don't know what I am doing about having a doula, the hypnobabies teacher hasnt returned Chris' phone calls and we obviously can not go to the classes, I was only able to attend two of them but I am keeping up on the reading. But honestly with all these complications I don't have much passion to try the natural birth anymore, I feel so exhausted and discouraged that I kind of just want to let the dr. do what ever she wants at this point, I am almost afraid to argue about anything and my chance of having a c-section has increased again.
On Monday Chris and I went in to the dr. office for my regular NST (fetal monitoring) and the baby was not moving and increasing heart rate like they wanted to. After about an hour of monitoring and drinking juice they decided to send me to radiology to do further testing. Preeclampsia can affect baby's movement among other things. I actually went to the triage area of the maternity ward first, where they did more fetal monitoring before heading to radiology (where I am pretty sure I was surrounded by people with TB and other horrible contagious diseases) Here, Randy, our tech, did an ultrasound to check for 4 things- watch the diaphram move on baby, check cord blood flow, check heartrate (NST stuff that we failed earlier) and check body movement including fine motor skills-where they want to see baby move fingers or toes at least once. We passed all the tests except the heartrate and fine motor skills. He tried for close to an hour to get baby to move its fingers and it never did so we went back to triage.
In triage, we asked the nurse if we would see my dr. and she said no, there is no need. And then 10 minutes later she came in and said Dr. Stuhldrer will be down to see you guys in a few mintues and left. Now I freak out. I think the nurse heard me becasue she came back in and told us that the baby scored a 6 out of 8 points on the test (failed heartrate and NST) and so Dr. is probaby going to admit us over night. With a score of 8 we would go home and with a score of 2-4 we would probably be having a baby tonight but with a 6 it is up in the air and probably just want to keep monitoring me overnight. About 5 minutes later Dr. walked in and immediately started laughing and said that is what I wanted to see and we looked at the monitor and there was a little bump where the baby finally showed us a stronger heartbeat. After that ,it went up and down like it was supposed to. Dr. said that she is happy with that and we can go home, if that wouldnt have happened we would have been spending the night.
She told us that she wanted us to get to the high risk OB again as soon as possible to monitor this more and check on baby's size. Our last ultrasound which was on Thursday showed that the baby was measuring small which was a little concerning becasue preeclampsia can affect growth as well. I asked her if she thought I would go to my due date and she said no, not after this, we will shoot for 38 weeks, that puts us at Dec. 27- but that is a Saturday so it will be before or after is my guess. All I know is that it better be before January becasue we will definitetly hit our out of pocket limit.
So we headed home and Chris took the rest of the day off of work since it was already almost 4 p.m. Nothing like spending an unexpected day in the hospital.
The next day my mom and kathy came over and cleaned the house and made returns to Babies R Us, (which by the way dont register there, they are total jerks). At 2:45 I got a call from the dr. and they said they scheduled me with the high risk OB (Tony Dungy's sister) at 3:15 so we rushed over to make the appt. They did lots of measurements and said I looked good, baby is measuring at 34.5 weeks now which is not bad. Baby is in the 20th percentile which is a little small but okay. She said if I were to go into labor today, baby would be fine. That was very reassuring. And since I have had contractions for about a month- this really is a possibility.
So here I am again, back on the couch and waiting waiting waiting. I actually slept last night which I think was due to exhaustion and a little help from Tylenol PM, but regardless I feel much better. Headaches continue, heartburn makes me vomit almost daily and very unexpectedly, my hips are moving and really hurt (dr. said baby's head is very low and that is causing my hips to shift and hurt) and I am just tired and tired of bed rest. I keep thinking that as soon as this baby is out I am joining a gym and letting the gym daycare raise my baby. ha, not really but I love the idea of being able to walk around the block instead of just straight to the pody and back to the couch.
This baby better be cool.
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