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| 39 Weeks |
| January 18, 2003 I'm home and still pregnant!!! It was a long day yesterday, and Jaxon decided that Jan 17 was not a good day to be born! First of all I got to the hospital around 7am and the reason I was being induced was high blood pressure. Well, wouldn't you know my BP was totally fine, even on the low side (usually between 127/60 and 138/75)! But we tried to induce anyway. The Dr tried and tried to break my water, but it just wasn't happening. I was only 2cm dilated and still quite thick and really high up so she couldn't get it to break. She did strip my membranes though (OUCH!). Then they started me on pitocin. Funny thing happened. There was a student working with the nurse that I had. He watched and did all the things like start IVs and all that stuff. He watched while I was being checked and everything. Then, once the other nurse and Dr left he said "you look very familiar, I think I went to school with you" And we figured out that we had gone to school together from grade 3 to grade 10 (same homeroom and everything). I got totally embarrassed, just what every girl wants to hear after someone sees them laying naked from the waist down on the bed for a few minutes "hey, I know you!"! My Dr even told him that he could deliver the baby and I was just horrified at the thought of it! They started me on the lowest dose of pitocin and gradually worked me up through the day. Deb and Henry arrived around 8:30am, and absolutely nothing had started at that point. They kept upping the dose and eventually some minor contractions started, you know the kind that do hurt but not as much as they should. Those minor contractions lasted a few hours even picking up speed and intensity. Then all of a sudden they quit! I was on the highest dose of pitocin for about 1 1/2 hours with NO contractions at all. The nurse checked me and I was still 2cm dilated, but thinner than before. So the Dr was going to come in to break my water to see if she could get things started that way. I will admit I was getting tired at that point and was VERY scared of the possibility of a LONG and PAINFUL labor. Since I had 4 hours of painful (but not as painful as they get at the end) contractions already with no progress I figured my body just was not ready at all to go into labor. She came in and had the thing to break my water in hand and said she thought it was best to not do this and it would be better to send me home because obviously I wasn't ready. I totally agreed with her and I believe if we would have proceeded I would have ended up having a very long night and possibly even next morning till I delivered. So she sent me home and I"m set to go back on Tuesday the 21st. I know Deb was disappointed (even though she wouldn't say it!) because she thought today was the day she would have her son. And I did feel guilty because I know if I would have pushed, the Dr would have broken my water. But I think really it was for the best, even though very inconvenient for us all. So Jaxon will come another day, I do believe he's trying to teach his mommy and surromommy some patience!!! I"m 39 weeks 4 days pregnant January 20, 2003 I'm getting quite nervous about tomorrow. I'm so excited about actually delivering the baby, but I just don't want to have to go through labor to get there!!!! (I'm sure every pregnant woman feels that way!) I just can't help but worry that I"ll still be 2cm dilated tomorrow and it will be an all day induction again. My guess was that I'd deliver today so I'm still holding out hope that my body will start labor on it's own today, but I'm certainly not counting on it. At least if I went on my own, it would get rid of this nervousness of a long horrible induction!!! So by tomorrow Jaxon will probably be here with us all, but I'm still not really counting on that either. He's a very stubborn little man and it wouldn't surprise me if he had a different plan of what day he'd like to be born on! I'm 39 weeks 6 days pregnant. January 21, 2003 Guess what??!! Yep, no baby today! It's really getting to be pretty funny to me how we keep planning dates for Jaxon to be born and it never happens. Dr L phoned me last night to talk about whether we should really induce today or not. She really didn't think it was a good idea since my blood pressure was normal again and my body was totally not ready a few days ago. We decided it would be best to give my body some more time to hopefully get things going on their own, and if not at least give it some time to be ready for an induction. She didn't want to put me through another failed attempt and I didn't want that either (for me and for everyone else!). So she changed my appt today for the induction to just an NST. Jason and I joked today that I'm going for the world record for how many times I can go to the hospital as a pregnant lady and still leave pregnant. My BP was 150/78 today and the nurse said that was good. Dr L was still a little concerned about the top # being higher than normal so I go back in 2 days for another NST. Perhaps I should just set up camp in the hospital parking lot to save me all the trips, hehehe. The Dr also told the nurse she wouldn't let me go past next week. So not sure exactly what date that would be, but it's nice to have an end in sight. I have officially grown out of all but one of my maternity shirts now. None of them are long enough to cover my whole tummy, so for the rest of the pregnancy I have to steal my husbands sweatshirts. At least they are comfortable!!! I'm 40 weeks pregnant January 23, 2002 We have another induction date set for tomorrow. My NST was fine today, but my BP is creeping back up. So even though I have no other symptoms (like protein in my urine, headaches, etc) the Dr wants to try and get Jaxon out again. Hopefully my body will cooperate this time. But I still have to phone in the morning to make sure the hospital isn't too busy to take me! Click here to see pictures of me taken today. I'm 40 weeks 2 days pregnant |
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