Sunday, October 10, 2010

Update

So i am just sitting on my couch being bored and decided to update anyone who is interested :)

So i had a doctors appointment last Thursday. Everything was normal, blood pressure good, lost a pound, just like it always has been. He said he didn't need to check me just because the week before i wasn't dialated and he said it really wouldn't have changed. I have been on Terbutaline to stop my contractions so he told me to keep taking those until i hit 37 weeks, which is Tuesday. So he wanted to just get my measurements and his heartbeat. Heartbeat was good, as normal, then he went to check my measurements and had a puzzled look on his face. Then he measured again, and said "that can't be right" Then decided it was. Well, the week before i was measuring 37 cm. i was 35 wks and 2 days. I have been measuring bigger the whole pregnancy, don't know why, but i wasn't too worried about it. Well when he measured me on Thurs i was 40 cm!!! I grew 3 cm. in one week........So naturally i am a little freaked out. He said i could either have a big baby, or just more fluid, or that's just how my body is. I wish he would have done an ultra sound just because i am curious what it is. Honestly, i don't want to have to try and push out a 10 pounder......but as long as he is healthy i am ok :)
So he basically told me he did not want me to go to full term because i am measuring big and too stop taking the meds and hopefully i will go into labor on my own. Lets just say, after the appt. me and my mom went for a 2 mile walk :) Didn't seem to help haha

Yesterday around 2:00 i was having contractions pretty consistent and they were really starting to get uncomfortable, not hurting to the point of making me cry, but pretty uncomfortable. So around 7 they were about 5 min apart and lasted for about 50 sec-1 min. So naturally i thought i was ready, so i went in just to make sure and to get checked. She hooked me up to the monitor, baby was great, and my contractions were about 3-4 min apart by now, so she checked me and i was 50% thinned (efaced)???,my cervix was still pretty firm and closed....UGH!!!! So frustrating. So she said that she wanted to keep me for an hour to be monitored to see if i changed. So she came back in an hour and checked me and my cervix softened, i was more thinned, and dialated to a 1 :) I was pretty happy about that, so of course we had to stay another hour. Checked me after that hour and hadn't changed. :( So me and eric decided just go home and get comfortable (i was SOOO uncomfortable) and just see what happens. We went home, i took a bath, and slept great.......I have had them all day about 4 min apart but not getting worse. I know it may seem like i am just blabbing on and on but i really am just frustrated. I DO know that he needs to stay in there and honestly i would be ok if he did. I just wish my body didn't feel like it was trying, and i wish i knew without a doubt when to go to the hospital because i feel stupid being sent home. I am not good with pain, so for me these hurt. Everyone tells me "you will know" and i know that i will know, but it is still frustrating :(
So we are just hanging out waiting for his arrival. Hoping it would be today 10-10-10, but, don't think that will happen.
Any advice from any of you would be muchly appreciated :) Thanks!

3 comments:

The Harrison's said...

Good luck Girl! I hope everything goes great, can't wait to see pictures of the little guy! Great job on the nursery by the way! :)

mags897 said...

Well, I know we don't know each other that well, but I had the same exact problem with my first one! I started at 30 weeks though, and I had to take the pills from 30 weeks until 36 weeks. I know what your going through! at 36 weeks when he had me stop taking them, I was contracting day and night, with ZERO change, I'd go in, they'd monitor me for an hour or so, no change, and send me home with sleeping pills to get rest, needless to say, I had to be induced because my contractions did nothing. There isn't much you can do, other than walk, and my doctor even said to "do what married people do" but I said, I'm contracting all the time what makes you think I want to! Just hang in there and he will be here before you know it! All I can say is walk walk walk! And don't feel dumb to go in if your in pain! They are used to it! There will be impatient ones, but ignore them, first time moms never fully know! Good luck!

Michele and Wyatt said...

I don't know what to tell you. I have never gone into labor on my own. I have always been started. But, I will say if you think that maybe you are in labor, it is better to go in and be sent home than to have a baby at home or in the car because you didn't go in. Good luck. Hang in there. You will not be pregnant forever, he will come.