My adventure in Childbirth (part 3)

Tuesday morning didn't come soon enough. I had an extremely rough night sleeping. I was in a ton of pain. The Brethine was NOT working to control my contractions, and every time I contracted I had to pee so bad. Getting up from the bed to the bathroom every 10-15 minutes was not good for my bed rest. I debated calling the doctor to see about going back to the hospital but figured I'd suffer through the night since I had a doctor appointment first thing Tuesday morning.

Sean drove me to my appointment since I wasn't able to drive with my bed rest. They did what they do at every appointment and had me pee in a cup, took my blood pressure and weighed me. I got on the scale and was surprised to see that I had lost 5 lbs since my last appointment, less than a week ago. I figured I would have gained weight on bed rest, but apparently my lack of appetite was significant enough for me to lose weight.

I then went in to see the doctor. He asked how I was feeling and I told him I had another bad night and that the Brethine didn't seem to be working. He looked at my cervix first with the speculum and then with his hand. It wasn't good.

I had dilated from 3 cm to 5-6 cm since Saturday. Time to go back to the hospital and no going home first. They didn't want me delivering in the car. I wasn't surprised but still scared. Why didn't we learn the first time and pack a hospital bag to keep with us. Next pregnancy we'll remember this.

Sean drove me to the hospital and of course I seemed to know all of the nurses at this point. They welcomed me back and told me I must have misbehaved. This time I was in room 206. We told them we wanted to keep coming back until we got a better room. Just trying to keep the humor.

Sean went home to get my stuff, he knew the drill of what I wanted at this point.

Normally around the 38 week doctor appointment they do a culture test to test for Strep Group B. Normally about 1/3 of women come back positive, and all this means is that you are to be given antibiotics during labor to protect the baby. I never received this test since I hadn't gotten to 38 weeks. The doctor decided to do a test now, even though it takes 48 hours to get the results back. Since they weren't sure if and when I would go into labor before the results came back they decided to start me on the antibiotics, just in case. I got a does of penicillin every 4 hours through an IV. Luckily I didn't need an IV for anything else, so I only needed to be hooked up while receiving the penicllin and then I got to be released from my med pole.

I was still in pain with the contractions, and still taking the Brethine. The doctor had come in during the day and basically told me that they were going to keep me at the hospital until I delivered. They weren't sure when it would be, but he said he would be surprised if I were still pregnant in two days. I was told they weren't going to progress my laboring but they weren't going to stop it either if I starting to go into active labor.

I didn't feel good the entire day, but at least I was at the hospital in case anything happened. I was definitely not myself. I didn't even want to play on the computer or watch TV/movies. I just felt crummy.

My nurse was awesome and knew I wanted a natural delivery med-free. She used to teach Lamaze and knew I had only been able to go to one class, therefore she asked if I wanted her to do a class overview with me. I was extremely grateful, and told her yes I did want any info she was willing to provide. She spent about an hour with us going over breathing techniques and movement stuff. It was very much appreciated.

Sean stayed with me until about 6:00 not knowing what was going to happen. In this time we finalized the names for a boy and girl, just in case. We had decided on first names last week, and now we finally had full names. He had softball games at 8:15 and 9:15 so I told him to go play and just keep his phone with him, just in case.

Tuesday night I was still exhausted so I decided I had no need for the sleeping pill. Unfortunately I still couldn't fall asleep so I called the nurse and she gave it to me so I could at least attempt to fall asleep, otherwise it was going to be a really long night.

Because of my constant need to pee I also asked to do the bed pan route again. It was so much easier to pee in the bed pan and have the nurse take care of it rather that get up out of bed to pee every 10 minutes. It ached to walk and my bladder never felt empty regardless of how many times I went to the bathroom.

Wednesday morning came and I was glad to see Sean. He stopped in to visit on his way to work. There were a few things he had forgotten on Tuesday so he dropped them off and headed to work.

I wasn't sure how I was going to pass the day but was hoping to watch some movies or something, but unfortunately I had no desire to do anything. It was painful to lay in bed, it was painful to sit in bed, it was painful to do anything.

They continued to give me my Brethine but it didn't really make a difference. I was depressed and not having fun doing anything.

I texted Sean around 10 in the morning telling him I was trying to stay positive but I wasn't having a good day. Than again a little before 1 telling him I was sick of going to my happy place. I spoke with Stacy around 1:30 since she kept bugging me to call and give her an update. I told her there is no update, I contract, I pee that's it. I wasn't a very pleasant person to talk to, but I knew she really wanted to talk to me so I figured I'd call her. Around 2:15 I texted Sean and told him I wasn't sure how much longer I could take of this.

Shortly after I texted Sean my doctor came in to see how I was doing. I told him it wasn't a good day. He was about to head home for awhile but figured he'd check my cervix before he left. He checked my cervix, and asked the nurse to grab an amnio hook. She looked at him confused, and said that I had now dilated to 9+ and my water sac was bulging now about 2 cm below my cervix. It was time to have a baby.

I started to get nervous, should I call my husband? The doctor said yes and asked where he was. I told him he works only 10 minutes away, so the doctor said make sure he's here in less than 30 minutes.

He broke my water sac with the amnio hook and the fluids started gushing out. I wasn't sure what to expect, I thought it was going to be bloody, but it was just clearish fluid that kept flowing out.

I called Sean shortly before 2:30 in tears telling him it was time to have a baby. He was calm as always and told me it was ok and he'd be right over. I was starting to freak out. I was excited but so nervous. I texted the family and told them it was baby time.