38 Weeks

This was actually taken at our doctors appointment yesterday (38 1/2 weeks), but whose counting :).  We had a CRAZY day yesterday.  We went to our appointment like normal.  I peed in a cup, they checked my blood pressure, and we waited to see the doctor.  We saw Dr. Rhodes and when he finally came into our room he was extremely talkative.  He informed us of things to look for and what to do when my water breaks or contractions start.  Then he measured my belly which he said measured normal and he listened to the baby's heartbeat, again a good strong heartbeat!  Yay!  I was 2 cm, 80% effaced, and -2.

Then things happened fast!  I mentioned that the baby's movements felt different.  I still feel baby boy throughout the day but they don't seem as strong.  Before it felt like he was going to Karate chop right out of my belly and now the movements are much more subtle.  This alarmed the doctor and when coupled with my slightly elevated blood pressure (and elevated blood pressure last week) he wanted to send us to Triage at the hospital to be checked and monitor the baby.  We didn't really know what would happen.  Lance and I were both calm and ran home, let the girls out, ate a snack, sent work emails, and grabbed our bags in case they kept us at the hospital.  They put is in a Triage room immediately, put me in a gown, a weird belly wrap and hooked me up to take my blood pressure every 5 minutes for an hour and put monitors on my belly to monitor the baby.  The first blood pressure they took was through the roof 156 over something...haha maybe it was all the excitement because all of the other blood pressures taken were in normal range.  They drew 3 viles of blood and ran tests on these...everything was normal and I was not preclamptic.  They baby seemed fine too after an hour of monitoring.  They sent us home and told us to schedule an appt for the end of the week to be checked again more closely and they may discuss an induction...to be prepared.

I got a mani pedi in the afternoon which was a much needed time to relax after all of this!  When I got out of the appt. I had 2 missed calls from Glen Meade.  They were ready to schedule my induction for the 16th of June.  WHAT???  Of course this was after 5 pm and I couldn't call back.  We were concerned that we had missed something....everything checked out fine when we left the hospital right?  They also wanted to set up a BPP (Bio Physical Profile) to check the baby next week since the induction was so far away.  Again....what?  We thought everything was fine.

I was frustrated since we didn't have any clear answers so the next morning I called our good friend that works at the drs office.  She reassured me that everything looked normal and that they wanted to be overly cautious since my blood pressure has been elevated and since I mentioned the baby's movements.  She said these were all good things to follow to make sure everything is ok.  So for now we wait to see the doctor tomorrow, possibly schedule a BPP for next week, and then induction is scheduled for the 16th.  I really hope I go into labor on my own before the induction.  If not, I know everything will be fine and we will have baby boy in our arms soon.