Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Close call
When I stood up this morning, I got a headache, chest pain, started cramping and felt nauseous. You know it's going to be a great day when that happens. Baby looked good on the monitor, but the nurse said she could tell there was a lot of irritability with my uterus. I text JaNae to see if she could come help with the headache and pain in my neck and shoulders. I started having more pain and asked to be put on the monitor to see if it was contractions. When JaNae got here, I was having one contraction after another. My contraction monitor looked like a mountain range, one mountain next to the other. We were looking at her pictures of Steven coming home at the airport last week. My nurse said she had paged the doctor and was ready to tell him a I was in labor. Then it stopped. The contractions fizzled and I was able to have a massage. I showered and then my mom was here and helped me through the next couple of hours. We did a quick ultrasound and saw baby is still breech. I feel much better now and am thinking we will make it until tomorrow.
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An irritable uterus....that's a great term....sorry that it was used to describe yours, though.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read about your mountain range of contractions, I just thought "ouch!!!!" I remember seeing them on the monitors and the corresponding feeling in the belly -- and I had the epidural :)
I hope no more contractions come for a long time. That is so scary living day to day and hoping/praying for no more problems or complications. You should completely enjoy all treats everyone is bringing just for having to go through this - no guilt!
Aaron and I are planning to visit on Saturday night as long as you don't have a hot date planned for yourself already. We will just plan to stop by early evening. See you soon! Caroll
I'm so glad everything settled down and "labor" is off for now. Scary! I hope the massage helped with the headache =) Keep up the great work--taking care of this sweet boy!
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