Another hospital visit

Yesterday was interesting. I woke up at 4:00 a.m. and hadn't felt her move. Downed some OJ, jiggled my belly and 2 hours later still nothing, so called doc. She said, bring yourself in. When we got there her heartbeat was fine but still not feeling her move. So they monitored me for over an hour then said, "let's do an ultrasound to check fluid." 1st U/S said I had barely any fluid and they were pretty sure they were going to induce. Kept telling me to “mentally prepare yourself to be induced today.”

Dr. S. who was on call ordered me up to the 5th floor for a better u/s and that one showed plenty of fluid and that she's between 8-9 lbs. Ha ha! What a difference! So no dice. They would induce if my cervix showed any signs of cooperating but it's fully closed still. Only weird thing was that once I got hooked up to monitors, I did start to have real contractions that showed up on the monitor as soon as I got in and have been having them since, just not increasing in strength yet. They kept saying “You feeling that?”

So…..they will induce Sunday night at 10:30 p.m. This gives her more time in the womb to come on her own, but be at the point where it starts to be dangerous for her to remain in there. So yea, not super disappointed as we went in b/c she was scaring the hell out of me. Still the inducing talk got my hopes up.

The ladies in triage at the hospital were SO SWEET yesterday though. I felt in very good hands. All of them, nurses, residents, etc. Even the security guard escorted me all the way in singing “Happy Birthday! And “I know why you are here!” Everyone in that hospital too seemed to want to do everything NOT to have me get a c-section.

I did get a glimpse of our life if we make it to Sunday night. This one couple was checking in for their induction and the dad was videotaping her. Bonus: the resident also commented on my nice pedicure.

Sunday, 5 more days max.