The Johnston Family

The Johnston Family

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Labor and deliver

So I have a few stories to fill all in on. So I've been going in and getting NSTs(non stress tests) done every tue and fri, and she's been borderline on most of them. Well last sat at about 8pmish I was sitting on our foot stool which is in front of our entertainment unit at the moment, I was switching out a dvd, and when I stood up I felt a hard sharp pain all under my belly, it only lasted a few seconds, but man it hurt! I went back over to the couch and lay back down, but I kept getting a sharp pain in one spot under my belly. Because of how I am, I kept telling myself that it'd just go away in a minute. So Tony and I headed out to his parents house to return their truck Tony borrowed to get supplies for the almost completed remodel. It was a bumpy ride and by the end of it I was in tears with pain. So he called the dr, and we headed off to the hospital. My OB called when we were on our way, and said that was great, and she'd call and let them know we were on our way, and what she wanted done there. Basically when we got there, I had a dr's visit/NST, as they took a urine sample, took my blood pressure, and hooked me up to the same machine used for a NST, that monitors baby's heart rate, and any contractions(as they were concerned it may be pre-term labor) Elizabeth was more active for this than she has been during any NST I've had! Probably because I had major adrenalin flowing, which is way better than sugar! After they told me I wasn't going into labor, and Elizabeth looked fine, my blood pressure went down(surprise surprise), they found that I had a Urinal tract infection, and that may have caused some of the ongoing pain, but the initial pain was most likely Liz sitting so low, that it strained my ligaments. I was put back on bedrest, and sent home. Sun I had a seriously upset stomach and I forced myself to eat throughout the day. Tony picked up my prescription for the infection. So that was our labor and delivery experience and if nothing else I now know I'm definitely bringing my own pillow!! Oh and it's a pretty nice room! Then on tue I had a NST, which went better than any one before it, then I went right up to my OB appointment. She measured my belly, and it passed! She said it's still on the small side(but so is Elizabeth so..) and took my blood pressure which was acceptable! She even listened to the heart(despite the fact that I just spend 45 min having her heart rate monitored :) she said if the ultrasound next tue has as good results, I just might have a chance of making it to sept 26th!!! But I'm still being monitored very closely and she'll still pull her out at the first sign of worsening conditions. She won't let me go an hour past sept 26th though, so my hopes for an oct baby is out :( but as long as she's healthy that's all that matters. This whole bedrest thing is driving me absolutely crazy!!! I'm ADD I don't do the staying down thing, but it's helping Elizabeth do better, so my sacrifice as a mother begins. Because I love her more than anything!
I'll blog about our carpet fiasco later, but the remodel is almost done!!!

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