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Well, today is the day. We are supposed to be at the hospital by 4:45 this morning to begin our induction. We're exactly 38 weeks today, but the doctor wants to move forward and get our little guy delivered. I've been having quite a bit of blood pressure issues, so they finally decided it was getting high enough that they needed to put me on bp medicine to control it. It worked for a little bit, but is beginning to rise again, so they feel the best thing possible for all concerned is to go ahead and deliver.
I can hardly believe that today is the day (well hopefully, today is the day). They're starting our labor around 5:00 am, but that doesn't necessarily mean that baby Dakota will put in an appearance today. I certainly hope so, but you never know!!!
I finished packing everything last night, then tried to sleep for a while. I ended up with about 3 hours of sleep, but I guess that will just have to do. I got up early this morning (1:30) so that I could get all cleaned/groomed up. I took a nice, long shower. I shaved my legs/underarms. Got dressed, and now I'm all done with an extra hour to kill, so you see what I'm doing with my spare time.
It seems like this has been such a long and emotional- rough and rocky road, that I will be more than happy to reach the end of it. However, I have to admit that I'm a little nervous at the same time. I know I can do this and that we'll be fine once we're home, but there is always that little voice in the back of your head that convinces you that you're going to have trouble. I've been around babies/little kids a lot in my life (I mean my youngest brother is 15 years younger than me and I did a lot of baby-sitting in my time), but it is different when they're your own and you have complete care of them 24 hours a day. Oh well, I guess I just need to let nature take over and tackle this one day at a time. We'll let tomorrow take care of itself (for now).
I'll post some pictures of our little man soon.
So, let the fun begin!!!
I went back to the doctor again yesterday, and we are definitely getting close now. Due to my continuing high blood pressure issues (even with the medicine), doc has decided that he doesn't want to put things off any longer than necessary. Therefore, yesterday he scheduled us for an induction that is to take place on the morning of June 29th!!!
Honestly, I'm feeling some mixed emotions. On the one hand, I cannot wait to meet my little guy, but on the other hand, now I'm a little nervous that all of this is going to happen in just a little over 1 weeks time. We have everything ready for his arrival, I just have to pack a bag for me & a bag for him (which I'll do this weekend).
Luckily, with this scheduling, I get a little extra help as well. The company that my husband works for (Carlisle Power Transmission) is closing the plant for 1 week, so all members that wish to receive a paycheck for that week is required to take a week of their vacation. Our induction date falls at the very beginning of his mandatory 1 week vacation. So, we'll have our little guy, and then we'll both be home with him together. That makes me feel a little better about everything.
Nervous or not, our times almost up. We'll try to post a few pictures shortly after we get back home. Here's hoping for a quick & easy induction/delivery!!!
Thanks for reading.
I'm so excited!!! My doctors appointment yesterday afternoon was so good. My doctor was happy with my blood pressure, he said the medicine he had put me on the week before was working exactly as it should be. Therefore, he is no longer talking about taking me off of work and placing me on bed-rest.
However, the best news (in my opinion) was right before leaving the office. We were wrapping up the visit when he asked me if I had any questions for him. I said, actually I do (usually I can't think of anything I want to ask) so I said in some of my readings on the internet, it sounds like a lot of doctors won't talk about inducing until the patient is at least 41-42 weeks, but I know that every doctor is a little different, so what do you do? He said I don't let them go over at all. He proceeded to tell me that with all the problems we've had, that if I haven't had the baby by 38 weeks, that we will have an induction scheduled sometime in the 38th week, he said the baby is big & ready, so he would have no problems caused by arriving early.
That being said, sometime between June 29th & July 4th, I will finally get to meet my little guy. My doctor said we would nail down an official date sometime in the next week or two. I'm so excited, I can hardly wait. I mean an extra 2 weeks wouldn't have killed me, but to get to meet my little guy a few weeks early will be great as well.
We're almost there!!!
I try to always be happy with what I've got or where I'm at, but sometimes I just can't help myself.
You know what I mean, right???
However, I had a moment of pure "jealousy" yesterday, and I just couldn't help myself. My department at work is "small" (when I say small, I mean there is 6 people that does all the work in my area). One of my co-workers and I are due exactly 1 month apart (she is due June 15th & I'm due July 13th). Due to her 2nd baby being delivered by repeat c-section, they took hers a few days early (yesterday). Thus my moment of jealousy!!!
Don't get me wrong, I was/am very happy for her & her family. However, I couldn't help but wish at the same time that it was me & my family, and that it was our chance/time to finally meet our little guy. I know, that is just so wrong of me!!! I should be happy that he isn't here yet, and therefore has a little longer and should be better suited for this new world when he does finally make his appearance, but at the same time I still wished it was me.
So, now I've confessed my jealousy.
Does that make me a bad person??? Oh, maybe not, just human!!!
Every time I get the dumb idea to go and think that things are settling down and going right for a change, BAM, something has to go and mess it up. Alright, I know that may sound extreme, but that's just how it feels sometimes.
I thought things were finally smoothing out, and we would have a good ending to this complicated pregnancy, but yesterdays doctor's appointment threw a wrench into that plan. Some of you know that I was having some issues with the "female" doctor that I was seeing. Enough issues, in fact, that I was considering switching doctors. Well, as of the first week in May, that decision was taken out of my hands. I received a letter in the mail from the hospital stating that my doctor was leaving to return to a career in the Army, and that all of her patients could switch to one of two doctors: a "male" OB/GYN or a "female" Family Practitioner. My first instinct was to go with the "female", but due to all the problems we've had, they consider me high-risk, and she doesn't take high risk. Therefore, I had no choice but to switch to the "male" OB/GYN. It wasn't that I had a problem with him being a "male", I was just really uncomfortable in that situation with a "male". I continued to see my "female" doctor until May 19th (she wanted to see me for another 2 weeks), but I called in and said that I would prefer to go ahead and switch to him. That put me seeing him for the first time at 32 weeks instead of the original 35-36 that it would have been had I stayed with her until she left. So, long story short, after meeting him, I really like him. He just has this way about him, that even though you're not comfortable with the situation, he just really puts you at ease and you're able to relax.
That being said, yesterday didn't go so well. We are 34-1/2 weeks, and when they checked my blood pressure it was 148/100. He decided that was really too high, and wrote me a script for high blood pressure medicine (lebetalol) {100mg - 2x a day}. He said he will give it a week to kick-in and work, and then he will see me next Thursday. He is hoping that it will do its job and lower it down, but if not he is talking about putting me off work and on bed-rest.
That had me worried at first, because I had requested/arranged to take 8 weeks off after having the baby, and I was afraid that if he put me off early that it would cut into the time that I had previously requested. However, I just got off the phone with the head of our human resource department, and I feel much better after talking with her. I told her that I "could possibly" be put off work early, and wanted to know what my options were should that have to happen. As it turns out, she said if that happens we are fine & covered no matter what (and it won't cut into my requested time, they will just extend it out). She said that if it stays under 12 weeks time total, I'm covered under FMLA & short-term disability and that if it should go over 12 weeks that my long-term disability would kick in and cover the rest. (I've always carried both short & long term disability, but have never used either of them, so I wasn't sure how they worked).
Now I feel much better, so much in fact, that I'm fine with whatever happens. If I have to be off, then that's what we'll do. The pay won't be as good as what I generally bring home, but something is better than nothing!!!
Just had to get that out, thanks for reading!
