Non-birth story

Thanks for the messages of support.

I am back home since yesterday afternoon.

Baby hasn't shown up yet. He is doing some resistance.. trying to come out for July 4th?

we'll see.

So here is our non-birth story:

I went to the hospital Friday for the monthly check up. My blood pressure was way too high so the mid wife asked for more exams. Unfortunately they were really busy with women in labor so I was asked to come back in the afternoon.

I usually go to check ups by train and that would have been really annoying, thankfully that day my mom drove me (we planned on having lunch together before she goes visit my dad) so she could drive me back in the afternoon.

We went to a supermarket during lunch hour to get the last baby stuff I needed for the maternity pack (bibs, socks, hat and a couple t shirts for me).

Back in the hospital I had a monitoring and some blood and urine tests. The monito was good, but they didn't get the results before the lab closed ( yes the HOSPITAL's lab, for some reason they didn't give the results before they closed..)

So I got an appointement for Sunday morning and a relaxing pill and an order to rest.

Saturday we had friends over for lunch, they came to help Mr. L get the lumber for the deck. The hospital called to ask me to come that day instead of Sunday for more monitoring and BP check. We went in the afternoon.

They decided to keep me. :/

It was quite a surprise especially for the dear husband, who got really scared for me and the baby.

Thankfully the baby has never been endangered all along, all his stats have been good at every single check up.

They still decided to induce me as I had all the symptoms of pre-ecclampsia..

Sunday I met my room mate, a girl a bit younger than me with a very sweet gentleman of a husband and an overdue baby.

We had the same procedures done and I was quite happy to have a companion to share the journey with.

i got some contractions and they died away in the late afternoon.

It was actually quite painful.. I realized later that the pain was not from the contractions but from a pinched nerve in my back from sleeping on a new bed..

Monday the service was too overcome to do anything, as we were both stable they didn't try anything that day. but it took hours for us to find out...

Tuesday we received a gel supposed to be stronger than the first time. Again I got some contractions that faded away before the evening.

My roommate got in real labor and came back around 2 am with a baby girl. An adorable little doll. :) that was so sweet. :)

Wednesday, I learned I was stable enough to go home! :) Yay! They are giving the baby an other chance to come on his own, he won't have too long if I understand well. i go back tomorrow for check up, then every other day till I reach 38 weeks, or 38 and a half. Well actually 38 weeks is Saturday.. :/ yikes.

What was very frustrating was the lack of communication. I would get information from the food mainly: the service lady would come in and say "sorry but no breakfast for you the midwife said" and that meant something was going to be done on me.. It was really hard to get any information on what was coming next.. I saw the doctors about 2 minutes total. 10 secondes the saturday, a freaked out doctor who stormed in the room to say " so this is Mrs L, we can't let her out she has pre-ecclampsia, we keep her in, give her a bed". And 1 min50 sec on wednesday morning 2 doctors to tell me they let me out ( I feared they were coming to prep me for a c-section).

I am very thankful that the baby has never been in danger.

It was stressful enough to not know what was going to happen next.. if it would all end with an emergency c-section or not.. so not having to worry for the life of the little one was a great consolation.

I am also thankful that they decided to let me out instead of insisting so much.

Sorry about the details but my cervix got check upon 4 times in 4 days and I hated every minute of it. Also very little changed happened after those 2 tries so it would have taken lots of products to have it evolve... :/

I am thankful for my husband who worked from home to visit me, and brought me cherries, fresh cherries :)

I am thankful for the friends who invited him every single night for dinner to keep his mind of worries. And lent him a car when ours broke down.

Oh yeah, because tuesday night the car broke down.

this is a whole other story but I think we'll laugh our heads off when our baby is a little boy and ask that we tell the tale of his birth.. it will be a 4 parts story with the car breaking down, the tow truck showing up hours late when Mr L is visiting at the hospital, rushing to get back, being pulled over by cops...

I am already laughing about all those adventures, but I think someone else will need more time..