No Baby Yet

Well, I thought I would have a baby boy by now...but alas, here I sit on Monday morning still pregnant, working. On Friday, I woke up and noticed that I had some bleeding. From the moment you are get a positive pregnancy test result the doctors tell you that if you have any bright red bleeding to call immediatley. So, I called the after hours number for the doctor and the doctor on call told me to go to the office at 9 AM to get checked out.

So a little before 9 AM, Henry and I pack the car with our hospital gear and head to the doctors office. I have to say, I am really impressed with my doctor..they were so sweet to me and caring. They brought me water, made me sit down and took me in right away. I saw the doctor and he said that he thought it was the start of my "bloody show", but that he wanted to send me to L&D just to rule out other causes of the bleeding. So off Henry and I go to L&D. We got there and they hooked me up to two monitors...one to monitor the heart rate of the baby and the other to monitor my contractions. By this point I was having rather regular contractions, but when the doctor examined me, the baby was still not engaged and my cervix still wasn't thinning...so he started talking c-section again. However, he did indicate that it seemed that I was in early labor.

Instead of signing up for a c-section Henry and I decided to walk around the maternity ward for about an hour (the doctor had to perform another c-section) and we agreed that after the doctor was done performing the c-section he would check me again to see if there was any progress. So around and around the maternity ward Henry and I went. I was still having pretty regular contractions and everyone made such a fuss over us. After an hour, we went back to the room and the doctor came in and examined me again. He said that he was really pleased by my progress...I had dialted another cm (in just an hour), my cervix was thinning "nicely" and he said he could feel the baby's head..which meant he has dropped. So the doctor said he no longer thought a c-section was immediate and what did we want to do. We could stay in L&D and they could break my water and get me in active labor...or we could go home (get something to eat..Henry and I hadn't eaten ALL day and by this point it was almost 3:00 PM) and he was pretty sure he would see us back later that night. We decided to go home..get something to eat (they won't let you eat in L&D in case they have to administer some sort of anesthesia since they want you to have it on an empty stomach).....shower and see how things progressed.

Well, everything stopped by Friday night and really nothing has been happening since...I have been having inconsistent contractions all weekend, but nothing major...so needless to say, I don't have a baby yet.

This weekend was tough. Having everyone watching me like a hawk. I felt like a circus freak. I won't go into all the details, because we would be here forever..but lets just say I am not in the best place mentally or emotionally... I am going to call the nurse this morning at my doctor's office to see if this is normal or if I should come back in before Thursday for an exam.

Ugh, please keep praying/thinking of me. I need all the positive thoughts that I can get....I keep hoping that today is the day that the baby will come, but each day passes with no real progress.