On top of my visit to Urgent Care this past Thursday I took a trip to labor & delivery yesterday morning. Everything is fine, but seriously I think I am being told to just slow things down.
We woke yesterday morning to 77 degrees with a beautiful cloud cover in the morning so I took advantage of the 30 degree temperature difference to go out and do some yardwork. We have one of those trees in our front yard where it grows shoots from the base and the trunk and rapidly resembles a bush instead of a tree. Since I live in foreclosure city I didn't want anyone to mistake my home for an empty one and therefore attempt to break in.
Normally we have clippers that we use to trim all the shrubbery but I could not locate them. I was trying very hard to let my husband sleep in so after searching for thirty minutes I found a hacksaw in his tool chest and set to work. Hayley came out front with her sidewalk chalk and since it was only about seven am I wasn't worried about having her out front without a second pair of eyes.
Little did I know the hacksaw was meant to saw steel pipes. I sawed and sawed at the shoots coming off the tree, worked up a sweat, got everything trimmed and went back in the house. Then I tackled the back yard. By then my husband was up and located the clippers so life was much easier. I trimmed all the palm trees and roses.
Half an hour later I noticed I was spotting. Of course I absolutely freaked out. The only thing I could think of was placenta abrubption (is that the word for it?). I called my doctor but the after hours/on call doctor did not return my call. We had my mom watch Hayley and we headed to L&D to get checked out.
They would have sent me home right away but they were concerned because my cervix was already in an anterior position, dilated to a 1, and I was contracting. The contractions are normal for me but they didn't like that I am contracting after having had a c-section previously. So they hooked me up to an IV and were about to administer tributalin. I asked if that was wise since the tributalin would make my heart race and I was already experiencing palpitations. The nurse opted to hold off and see if just the fluids would help the contractions. Lucky for me, it did. I just don't believe in using medication immediately if other things can be tried first.
I did get sent for another ultrasound to check the length of my cervix and to make sure I didn't have placentia previa. Both of which were fine. We told the tech that we don't know what we are having but she and the other tech could not resist looking anyway. I couldn't see the monitor and my husband wasn't watching so there was no chance we could tell what it was but they had an odd conversation about it, leading me to believe it is a girl.
"Is that the umbilical cord... OR....?"
"No. You can definitely tell it's umbilical cord there."
Ok ladies, thanks. So we spent about three hours there and found out everything was ok. Specific release notes included no more yard work and no lifting. I have been much more relaxed with this pregnancy, honest I have, but I keep finding myself in situations where I am scared to death if I don't act or at least get it checked out that I would forever question myself if something went wrong.
I have to follow up with my doctor this week from the two visits I had to other facilities in the last 72 hours and I am afraid he is next going to tell me that he doesn't want me to fly to Canada as we have planned. If I can't go, I can't go. I'm not going to be stupid about it, but I am really looking forward to taking Hayley to see my husband's family as we do every summer and I will be really bummed if my husband goes without me. Which is likely what we would do- I mean, it wouldn't be fair for him to postpone seeing his family, especially since we don't know when we would be able to go again. I'll cross my fingers.
Jenn - Slow down honey, listen to what your body is telling you. Not only do you work lots of hours, bu you have a toddler too! Take it from me, if you don't take the warnings you will end up on bed rest - which is almost impossible with a job & child!!
Take care of you & bump 2.
Posted by: yvonne | July 13, 2008 at 02:10 PM