I guess in our case with this pregnancy we should have known
it wasn’t going to be completely smooth sailing. On Saturday morning Dave woke
up around 7am to go Frisbee golfing with his buddy. I decided that I needed to
go to the bathroom being morning and all. Lincoln woke up at the same time and
when I got up to grab some clothes (after realizing I may have leaked a little)
I began to feel a gush! My initial instinct was to try to hold it in, but that
obviously doesn’t work when it’s your amniotic fluid coming out! Sorry, that
was probably a little TMI, but it explains the rest so I can’t leave it out
haha.
I took Lincoln upstairs and put some cartoons on for him and
I went to do the normal exam of fluids. I knew it was my water, but luckily
there was nothing else with it (if you know what I mean). I wasn’t contracting,
but I was cramping a little. I tried to get a hold of Dave and let him now what
happened, but since it was raining that morning he left his phone in the car.
As soon as he got to his phone he called me. I let him know that I thought it
would be a good idea to go to Labor & Delivery so that we could make sure
things were okay with the baby. I normally wouldn’t have done that, but with
the amount of fluid I lost I just wanted to be sure. He said he was on his way.
I told Lincoln that when daddy got home mommy and daddy were going to go to the
doctor to make sure mommy was alright. He said that he wanted me to stay and I
told him that it would be fast and I would come home right after (turns out
that was not correct and I felt so bad for not being able to go back home to
him).
We got to L&D and I told the lady I was almost 24 weeks
and just lost a lot of fluid. They checked me in and then did a non-stress test
to monitor the baby and to check to see if I was contracting. The baby’s heart
beat was perfect and I wasn’t having any contractions. They decided to have
ultrasound come up and check to see my fluids and to take a look at baby. As we
were waiting I was feeling pretty good and was ready to go home and continue
with our weekend. After the ultrasound, the tech said that there were very
little fluids, which was not a surprise (especially since I thought it would
all be gone). He then went to talk with the on-call doctor and asked us to wait
a few minutes.
The nurse came in and told us that the doctor looked at my
chart and since I wasn’t bleeding, contracting or cramping anymore then he felt
comfortable sending me home til Wednesday when I would meet with the MFM and
get checked in. She also mentioned that from the ultrasound I was dilated 2-3
cm!!! WHAT?!!! That was definitely new information. She said that if I start to
have contractions, cramp or bleed then to come back in because they don’t want
me to deliver the baby at home. I just lost it at that point! She mentioned
maybe calling in on Tuesday to see if they would take me a day early, but other
than that to just stay on bed rest and only to get up to go to the bathroom. I
got dressed and we left. Dave suggested that I call the doctor at that moment
to see if I could get admitted today! When we got home and explained to his
parents his mom suggested the same thing.
I called the Provo hospital (which is where my MFM is and
probably where we should have gone in the first place) and they connected me
with L&D. I explained what just happened and let her know that I wanted to
be admitted today and the charge nurse said that she would contact my MFM and
see what he thinks. About 10 minutes later I got a call directly from the MFM
and after a short conversation he agreed that it would be okay since I am 23.3
days. He let me know that he would call the nurse and let her know I would be
coming in and to get me started on an IV and steroids. I grabbed the ipad that
Misty was loaning me, my phone and the chargers. Dave said that he will worry
about the other things later and just wanted to get me to the hospital.
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