{"id":1029,"date":"2009-02-24T01:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:17:38","slug":"baby-update-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/baby-update-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Update: the Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right, I’m in the hospital right now.\u00a0 Saturday night was a tough night for me with lots of intestinal cramping and nausea.\u00a0 I was up all night.\u00a0 The next morning we started going through all the boxes we hadn’t unpacked yet looking for the booklet on pregnancy and childbirth from our doctor.\u00a0 When we finally found the booklet and thumbed through it and noticed on the page with “Warning Signs” – I could go down the list and check off a pretty good percentage.\u00a0 That warranted a call to the consulting nurse who said “Come on down.”<\/p>\n

That led to six hours in the Labor and Delivery Triage room.\u00a0 When I first got there, all of my symptoms disappeared.\u00a0 Why does that happen??\u00a0 It’s so frustrating to sit there with a Doctor or Nurse and try to describe symptoms you’re no longer having – In fact, most of the time in triage, I felt great but a little embarrassed because I came in with no symptoms.\u00a0 They put me on a monitor to track my contractions and the baby’s heart rate.\u00a0 I didn’t feel a single contraction, but as it turns out, the monitor showed that I was having pretty frequent contractions.\u00a0 They checked my cervix after a few hours and I was dilated to 1 cm, 2 hours later I was dilated to 2.5 cm.\u00a0 That’s when they told me they were preparing a room for me.<\/p>\n

I honestly thought we would go in, they would check me out and then send me home with orders to call them if the cramping and nausea comes back.\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 Instead the plan is to put me on medication to slow down the contractions and steroids to beef up the baby’s lungs in case we’re not able to stop labor from proceeding.\u00a0 It wasn’t really sinking in what was going on until the doctor started telling me about how my baby was most likely viable at this age, but if she was born now, she would go straight to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.<\/p>\n

Since I was admitted Sunday night, the baby’s heart-rate has remained steady, and so have the contractions.\u00a0 It still strikes me as extremely weird that I can’t feel the contractions.\u00a0 I’m hoping that bodes well for delivery.\u00a0 The baby also continues to be very active, which makes me feel good.<\/p>\n

They are going to check me again in the morning to see if dilation has stopped or continued.\u00a0 If it stopped, I get to go home with orders to stay off my feet.\u00a0 If dilation has continued, I may be in here a while.<\/p>\n

Baby seems to be active and feisty and raring to get on with life, which I think will be helpful to her if she is born with a hurdle to overcome – such as being premature.\u00a0 I hope she can settle down and wait a few weeks and use that exuberance for getting on with life a little later.<\/p>\n

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