For the record, I’m 36 weeks 2 days, so technically 5 days until this baby isn’t a “preemie,” and about 26 days until my due date.
So I went to my regular OB appointment today… My blood pressure was 156/94, that’s BAD. I’m spilling protein, another bad… Not having any other signs of pre-eclampsia/toxemia though, no liver pain, no headaches or major vision problems out of the ordinary. They took my blood pressure again, it was still high at 142/92. So they sent me over to the hospital. I’m still 2 CM dilated, and 30% effaced, and I’m at -3 station, I was 2 cm dilated 30% effaced and -1 station last week. Baby is in the best position to be born though.
I was not surprised that my BP was high, getting my boys in there was HARD today.
We got a GREAT parking spot, right next to the elevator, the elevator doors opened and Michael jumped on. I told him to hold his arm in front of the door to keep it open; he didn’t… Then Aiden decided this was a GREAT time to throw his legs under the stroller, and hold me up… Michael’s elevator took off, and I yell to him “Push three, and get off there and wait for me.” he didn’t understand, but I hoped he’d come to and follow my instructions, I got on the next elevator and got to three; no boy…
I told the security guards there about him and asked them to please hold onto him if he showed up, they wanted details like what he was wearing etc, but I was wanting to go look for him because I knew he’d be panicked, I hurried through telling them about him as I waited for the next elevator. I left the stroller there with Aiden’s new toy monkey, and grabbed him and I got back onto the elevator, and heard Michael screaming for me on the other elevator, all the while Aiden was screaming about leaving his stroller and monkey behind.
These elevators automatically reset and go to floor one, so I headed there… No boy!!! I run around the lobby yelling for him, by this point FREAKING OUT!
I jumped back on the next elevator and went back to level 4, where the car is parked and I had seen Michael last, by now it felt like it had been a half hour and I was having all sorts of horrible mother visions, but I’m sure it was more like 10 minutes total with waiting for each elevator etc… FINALLY, there he was… With tears in his eyes and down his face and thoroughly shook up, at least a nice couple had found him and was going to take him to security. I felt SO BAD!
I called Kevin who was walking over from work to take the boys since I had a check today, but he wasn’t quite there so I went ahead to head up to my doctors office. At this point I finally got to the other elevators (they have two sets at my doctor’s office, one for the parking garage and one for the doctors offices). Aiden had a tantrum about not getting to push all of the buttons. Grr! We got up to our floor, and Aiden wanted to get a drink out of the drinking fountain, I knew it’d be another end to the world if I said “No,” plus if he was really thirsty it would be best to let him get a drink. So I lifted him (shouldn’t be doing that anymore) and helped him get a drink. I didn’t notice at this moment that this put the 3 point harness on his stroller around his knees instead of his belly… I set him down and head into my appt. HE DIDN’T want to go so he started dragging his shoes again and then fell forwards!?!?! out of his stroller… Grrr!
That stupid umbrella stroller is obviously going into storage until Joey is 6 months old, and will go in the trash as soon as he can reach the floor. I can’t wait until I can use my double stroller, would I look silly 9 months pregnant pushing around one small boy in a two child stroller? I’m not sure I care anymore.
I got checked in FINALLY, somehow I still managed to be there 5 minutes early for my appointment. I went out into the hall to wait for Kevin and let the boys watch the construction across the street. Instead of giving me a few minutes for Kevin to catch up, and for me to settle down they called me right back, which never seems to happen. Aiden DID not want to go in, and dragged his stroller all around AGAIN. Then I had to take both boys into my urinalysis, Fun fun!! I then got back to my room and they handed me the sheet and say “get undressed from the waste down.” They left and I got undressed trying to stay modest in front of my boys, Michael is SO embarrassed, and asks me why I’m naked, “Um, because they have to check in my belly on the baby.” I’m thinking “this is NOT the time for this conversation.” Luckily Kevin showed up at this precise moment and took the boys out to the the waiting room.
So now can you see why my BP was high? Ha Ha Ha!!!
I got to the hospital and checked into Labor and Delivery. Kevin took the boys to a friends house and finished up the loose ends at work. He’d left on his lunch break to help me out and had some pretty big tickets that needed closed. He hadn’t planned on taking the rest of the day off, but finished his work and made his way back to me. They monitored me for 2 hours, I had contractions consistently at every 7 minutes, and Joey did great on movement. AND my blood pressure readings were all NORMAL!!! Between 140/80 and 118/70… Oh and one 99/53 that scared the crud out of me until the nurse came in to explain to me that laying on my side with the cuff arm on top would do that for me. I think I checked in there about 1 and left at almost 4, Kevin and I ran back to the car, and ran to the pharmacist to get some stuff from them and the diapers I NEEDED for Aiden while they filled my prescription at Target. I knew I needed something for diaper changes, and instead got wipes yesterday. Gotta love pregnancy brain. Yeah, so I’m fine for now. I’m home, and things are OK. All my labs came back normal. So until next week here I stay.
All in all, it was a hard day, it ended up nice though, we went over to the friends house that took the boys, they thought that I’d be having the baby, they were all camped out and ready for a long stay. So they’d just started a movie when we got there, so we stuck around till it was almost over and decided to order pizza. It was REALLY fun to just hang out with them for a little while. THANKS JOHN AND PAMELA! I’m glad to be home now and need to get some rest (((HUGS))) to all.