Thing is, when the message was recorded, the chick said the dr's name so quietly that i didnt hear her say the wrong dr's name. Great huh? 37 weeks to the day and I dont get the dr i asked and begged for. That had me MAD!!! I couldnt believe it. So, we made another appointment with another dr that came with some high remarks, and we did the reqired stuff (talking about health and family history, etc.) and went on our way.
Fourth of July had its moments. I'll keep them to myself. Let's just say it had great moments and moments of disaster.
Well, fast forward a few days. I've been having contractions and some were enough to scare me into thinking its time to go. Luckily it wasnt...until 12:30 am thursday morning. Yea, thats today. I had contractions beating me up, consistent, and close. around 3:30 am, we headed out the door with our freshly packed bags and very awake toddler.We dropped Anthony off at the mil's and kept going to the hospital. I was so sure that since Erika had had her baby, I was safe to pop out our lil bundle. Well, the contractions weren't consistent or close enough for them. They had us walk the floor for an hour and at 7am head back to our room to get checked. On the 27th, I was about 1.5 and 50%. Not much but thats ok. The nurse checks me and says 3 and about 50%. Not enough fo them to keep us. Now, this was at shift change. The day nurse sucked royally. She had no personality or sense of humor. she told me i was a 2 just barely. She just made me feel like I had never done this before and didnt have a clue about labor. She and the dr kept telling me my labor was stalling out and i needed to get up and walk if I wanted to keep it going. Well I have had sciatic pains this whole pregnancy and after walking the halls for an hour, i had my sciatic nerve firing off along with a sore ankle from trying to walk fast but quietly down the halls so as to not wake anyone, especially those who had babies in their rooms.
Yea, I got sent home. Told that my contractions werent doing anything because she werent consistent and growing in power. We asked if they would do pitocin to get things going because I've been having contractions this whole week and we needed a lil help. Nope, not unless you are 39 weeks, they cant do anything because this reason or that. Nevemind we live an hour away, this timing was horrible and being sent home with no baby was likely going to increase the chance that we end up back there in the next few days trying again. He even explained what false labor is to me, rather than asking me if I needed someone to tell me what had happened. I felt like a lil kid being scolded. Yes, I know its his duty to explain everything and i doubt he wanted to be talking to me like that to make me feel stupid, but he did nonetheless. He even told us (knowing we live an hour away) to keep the appointment at 3pm. it was nearly 9 when we got send away. I'm not going to hang out in st cloud for 6 hours, but it doesnt pay to go the whole way home, just to have to come back for the appointment. Wht would he do in 6 hours that he couldnt do right then in the room at the hospital?? He also said he could give me morphine or another drug used for asthma patients to stop the contractions and help me sleep. EXCUSE ME?!? You are willing to say no to pitocin for all the reasons in the book despite protests, but are willing to dope me up with narcotic drugs when you KNOW our baby has a heart condition and who knows what the baby would do or how it would handle the drugs? I think we are on different planets. Obviously i said no each time he offered (several times while we were at the hospital and during our appointment) but that didnt stop him from bringing it up again.
We went to adam's parents and decided to eat and take a nap. We had tried what we had tried, may as well just see what happens. Yea, they stopped and we still went back for the appointment. Nevermind that i felt really roughed up from being checked constantly. I ended up getting a lecture about how dehydrated i was becuase of urine color, I was this, I was that, and that me being so dehydrated is why we had a false alarm. Thanks captain obvious. I just had to get the rest of the contractions to stop so i could go about the rest of my day. He was a lil helpful in one way though. he penciled us in for an induction on the 15th, when we'll be 39 weeks. He wont be there (HUGE sigh of relief!!), but the dr we tried to see last week will be back and probably be willing to do this for us. I thought finally and accepted that plan of action. We find out monday what dr Stocker wants to do. if not the 15th, we'll be put on schedule for that following monday. Finally an end date! I can tell my family when baby will be here by so they can make plans. I think that really helps us all.
So theres the plan. Theres the stupid details from the week that made me want to give it a shot and deliver in Little Falls anyway, but I know its not smart fir the baby's health. I just pray we dont have to do any of this again with them.
I plan on blogging for anthony soon. This kid just wont stop growing!!
Until then, i need much more sleep. Pray for us and that God keep His hand on us!
