freedom
This morning's doctor visit began with a typical hour long wait. According to one of the receptionist ladies, "something" had happened this morning. At least Dr. Shirley was in the office. Well, after going back and the nurse doing her thing, the main nurse came in and said that Dr. Shirley had just had to leave to go to the hospital to deliver a baby. That really wasn't what I wanted to hear.
Here I am at the doctor's office after having some complications (armed with a list of questions) and the doctor disappears. I've been antsy about this visit anyway because I didn't know what kind of answers I would get. Her not being there just didn't work for me. So...my pregnancy horomones quickly kicked in and I began to cry. I was so frustrated! The nurse didn't like my tears very much. Anyway, we ended up scheduling another appointment for this afternoon. Of course, that didn't really work for me either because we had friends in town for a couple hours. On top of that, I had planned to keep Nathan home as much as possible today so that he could have a "normal" day. We haven't had anything close lately. However, this meant that he would either have to go back with us or somebody else would need to keep him. Most likely that meant that he wouldn't get a nap...again. On top of that, the appointment they had for this afternoon was at 2:00 and Matt was supposed to go to the optometrist this afternoon about the same time...more complications. This was just more than my little pregnant emotions could handle.
Anyway, we made the appointment and left. Matt ended up canceling his appointment so he could go back with me and I made arrangements for my aunt to keep Nathan. When we went back, I was again armed with my list of questions as well as thoughts I didn't want to forget to bring up if I didn't get the answers I wanted. Luckily, I did get the answers I wanted!!
I no longer have to take the terbutaline. I'm really glad about that! She also said that at this point if I go into labor she'll just let me go...no going to the hospital and trying to stop things and hanging out and such yuckiness! On top of those things, she also said that I can get off bedrest. She said I can go ahead and do whatever I want. Of course, I'm not going to go out and run a marathon or anything...I'll still rest...but it will be nice to do things and not have to worry about whether it might make me go into labor or not.
Part of my questions for her were related to when to go to the hospital. After being at the hospital about 24 hours before Nathan was born, I want to do things a little differently this time. I really want to stay home as long as possible. Sitting or even walking around the hospital is just not a lot of fun. So...after some discussion, she said that I can stay home until I am in enough pain to not be able to really handle it myself. She said that if I do that, I should be around 6 cm when I get the hospital and things should move along pretty quickly. So...that is my plan. I don't want to have this baby at home, of course, but I really want the freedom to do what I want in the beginning of labor as well as have some better distractions than the hospital affords.
Well, that is the latest on my pregnancy journey. Thank you all for your care and concern!!
posted by JM @ 3:52 PM
3 Comments:
I'm glad the doctor says its ok for you to move around.
Be careful with staying at home too long. When Moma had me, she was in labor for a really long time. But when she had Liz, she wouldn't go to the hospital until Daddy and I had eaten supper and they had dropped me off at the babysitter's house. She made it to the hospital but just barely before Liz was born.
:) Yeah, I think my mom and Ginger are both worried that I'll wait too long. My doctor isn't worried, though. She did, however, tell Matt to make sure to wear shoes with strings in case he needed to tie off the umbilical cord. :)
Now that is a funny little Dr. joke. It's wonderful that you aren't strapped into bed, but feel free to keep on resting, Jennifer. You sound a smidge stressed out. . . We'll be praying for your labor experience. It's still so strange to me that I skipped over most of that part of the experience. A part of me misses that, but another part of me has the fear that I would have been a WIMP! and maybe it was a blessing to go the way I did. I know that's silly, but there you go. This IS pregnancy blog after all. In my little experience, I think I was too worried about whether or not I was actually in labor to think about alleviating the pain by distraction, etc. I was paying so much attention, it somewhat enhanced the pain. I hope that things go as you hope they do!
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