The Waiting Game
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Hello everybody…I know haven’t blogged about my pregnancy since we got past the 20 week mark and the awesome baby shower that we just had last June 5. Here’s a long blog that hopefully explains why.
Last March 13, I was then 24 weeks along, we went to Oakland Zoo so we can get out of the house, we’ve been stuck at home doing limited activities due to the complications I had in my early stages of my pregnancy. When we got the clearance that everything was fine, we had to take it. Besides, everybody says it’s great to do walking exercises around your second trimester, coz by the time you reach the third trimester, things will start becoming uncomfortable to do anything. It was a fun day — Kamille and Kathleen had lots of fun…believe it or not, it’s only my second time to go to a zoo. The first zoo I got to was San Francisco Zoo on my 27th birthday. Yeah, pathetic, I know.
However, as we were walking around the zoo, I was feeling some sharp pains in my lower back, it goes away pretty much right away so I didn’t mind it. But when we got home, it was getting more frequent and then it would move from my abdomen then to my lower back again. So we called my doctor just to be sure. After 15 minutes, the nurse on-call said we need go to the hospital so the doctor can see us. We didn’t have anything with us, the last time we got to the emergency room they just sent us home.
This time it was a different story, when we got to the hospital, they admitted us into Labor and Delivery, aparrently what I was having was contractions and they were already 3 minutes apart. My doctor was talking to the nurse about having to transfer me to CPMC in San Francisco if I was going to deliver that day. It was the only facility in the bay area that had a good neonatal ICU. I was a nervous wreck, I can’t help but cry, even if my doctor kept reassuring us that at 24 weeks the baby is going to be okay, of course I would prefer my baby to be full-term. The nurse thought I was crying because of the pain and immediately gave me a shot of morphine.
Thank God, the fetal fibronectine test came back negative, which meant I wasn’t gonna deliver for at least 2 weeks. So they gave me medication for the contractions.
I’ve been taking the contraction medication since then until 2 weeks ago. I’m really thankful our baby has reached 38 weeks as of today.
We also got clearance from my nutritionist that I’m cleared for gestational diabetes and we no longer have to worry about having to use insulin, one less thing to worry about.
My blood pressure has been slightly high the past couple of visits to the doctor, so my doctor scheduled us for a nonstress test. We had the first test yesterday and baby did well: heartbeat is great, amniotic fluid is within range and my blood pressure was also normal…whew! Baby was sleeping though and wouldn’t wake even if the nurse kept buzzing him so it took awhile for them to let us go…but he woke up and moved after several minutes so they let us go 
We’re scheduled for another one next week…if I don’t deliver yet.
Now I’m thinking I might make 40 weeks after all. I’m just worried baby might be too big by then, well I guess the doctor will know. Even if it has been difficult these past few weeks to move, sit or stand, I don’t really mind the wait…I’m just really excited to see and hug our baby when he comes. Please help us pray for a safe delivery and most of all a healthy baby.
