Trying to have a baby....Part I

Long day....but I am feeling good about my decision to come home.

Long and short...I was in the hospital by about 8 pm last night, finally started the cervidil by 9:30 pm. They ended up having to test my glucose every hour because the bagel I had for dinner wasn't a very good choice and my numbers were running high. The doctor was actually going to start an IV insulin drip but thankfully the pharmacy wouldn't send it up for some reason so they gave me a shot with only 2 units and that brought it down and I was fine...but it still involved them waking me every hour to test. I also had a killer headache from about midnight on, finally asked for tylenol around 5 am and that helped.

Cervidil came out at 8:30 am, Pitocin started around 10:30 am. They didn't actually check my status before starting the pitocin, which I was shocked. They said usually that is standard, they just expect that it has prepped the cervix for dilation so they start up the Pitocin and then check 2 hours later. So at 12:30 doc came and and I had no dilated AT ALL. She said he had moved down, so that is good....but no dilation. I got really down about it, since I was having pretty painful contractions on the pit and really thought things would have progressed.

After she checked me she also had me lay down for a bit since the baby's heart rate was a little high and had them give me some fluids to make sure I was getting dehydrated. After 30 minutes on my side the contractions pretty much came to a halt. I actually thought they had stopped the pit to give me a break while they stablized the heart rate, but when the nurse came into ask if I was feeling them and I said no, I realized that they had just stopped. It was then that I knew it was going to happen today. The nurse had me sit back up and she upped and the contrax started again but no where near the intensity that they had. I kept looking at the clock just waiting for when the doctor would come back in, she said she would be back to check me between 3 and 4 pm. I had already made the decision that if there wasn't significant progress I was done and wanted to go home.

Fortunately she popped her head in at 2:30 and I told her I was done and that I could have contrax that do nothing at home. She laughed (in a good way) and told me I was right and said to give her 15 minutes so she could get the paper work done and she would check me one more time, just in case. As I expected, no more dilation but he had moved down even more. So she told me I could go home for a while and come back tonight for more cervidil and pit again tomorrow. I said no thanks, I'll go home.

Sooo........where are we now? If you've made it this far :). I am having a lot of mucous right now, some which is brown, some is turning more of a raspberry color so I'm going to keep an eye on it because it might actually be new blood mixing in which is a good sign. I was having some serious contrax even upon arriving home but after taking a nap they have slowed and I plan to head to bed soon just in case but DH and I are also pretty exhausted.

If I don't go into labor on my own before Friday I have an appointment at 10:45 to check my cervix to see if I have dilated more. If I haven't , I go back Friday night more another round of cervidil and one way or the other the kid will be born on Saturday since with GD they really want you delivered by your due date.

I'm happy to be home. I knew the pit wasn't working, and I really didn't see the need to be taking these meds that were doing nothing. After an unmedicated birth with Molly, this was not what I wanted at all. If I have to do it again on Friday/Saturday I will, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.

Thanks for reading all of this if you got this far....it feels good just to type it all out.