Ok, round TWO at L&D and still no baby!

[SoggyGranolaMomma]

I'm home. Again. No baby.

Numerous promises and obviously lies. Last news was "we'll let you hang tight, do an amnio on Monday. If the baby is "ripe" we will do the version and induce you Monday night. Make the arrangements."

So, I do. My parents are coming tomorrow, John arranges his work schedule so he doesn't have to work until Friday. I'll have help here for after I deliver. All is good right?

WRONG!! "OH, your blood pressure responds SOOO well to bedrest." My lab work is fine (no renal or liver failure, yet) just trace protein STILL in my urine and my readings are in the 130s/140s over 70s/80s. No mention of the fact that my baseline is 90s/100s over 40s/50s. Or that these readings are when I am lying flat in bed.

Now the orders are home bedrest (no more than 1 hour up a day/shower and bath room priveleges), monitor my BP 2-3 times a day, in-office NSTs twice a week and no more going to the hospital unless it's to have a baby. One Dr said "you'll have this baby next week anyway" because she anticipates that I will not do well on home bedrest and inevitably my labs will begin to reflect that.

I have *extremely* hyper reflexes which basically means my seizure threshold is pretty low. My guess is that WHEN I go bad, it will go bad quickly and it will go bad badly, but hey, what do I know?

They have totally pissed me off so much that at this point, I'm not calling anyone until I'm having a frggin' seizure. Alright, well, I'm not THAT irresponsible, but I have totally had it. Luckily, IncognitoBaby is thriving although still breech. I'm off to do research on what I can do to get the bugger to turn.

[3for3hb]

Hugs to you SGM, and hoping for your sake that you'll be holding your baby soon!!!

[dziejen]

Very frustrating, I am sure! How many weeks are you now? It must really be tough to be going through all that -- especially with other kiddos at home. You are in my thoughts!!

[MrsMoe]

[samsmamma]

My thoughts are with you , mama. Keep us posted on what happens.

[flyingspaghettimama]

Crap. Sorry. I had a seizure before they induced me as well. I think you have to look REALLY sick before they'll do it, maybe?

I love the bedrest-but-come into the hospital for stressful bloodwork and NST conundrum. Which do they want you to do? Pick, already!

[SoggyGranolaMomma]

I think you have to look REALLY sick before they'll do it, maybe?

I think you are exactly right. I just want to know what's the harm in being PROACTIVE in a case like this? Like, why wait until I'm sick or the baby is sick before DOING something?

By the time my body reflects physical changes in blood work, I'm already consulting with the funeral director. :LOL I was septic with peritonitis for 4 days and barely "spiked" a temp of 99. It doesn't mean I wasn't SICK though does it?!?! :

[MamaFern]

im so sorry this is happening to you! but know you will have your baby soon!! you will probably be the first of us and then we will all whine and complain in the last weeks of being pregnant and you can comfort us

[flapjack]

Does your hospital have a portable electronic fetal monitor? My midwives used one during my other home births- I'd think, in a situation like this, it would be a godsend.
On turning babies:
Bricks under the foot of your bed.
Pulsatilla (homoeopathic preparation- but I can't remember the potency. I think it's 100c, two doses)
Acupressure
Acupuncture
Everything on spinning babies
I know that a lot of US mamas like chiropractors to fix their pelvises to get a breech baby out, but chiro isn't very popular over here, so I have no idea.
AND visualisation. Lots and lots of it.
I'd go take a look at the Hannah report on breech deliveries as well- I think there's something in there about version success rates as well as the (terrifying) mortality rate for instrumental breech births. It's UK based, and external version is only just becoming common here. Nobody at my local hospital would consider it 7 years ago with Alex.

[SoggyGranolaMomma]

you will probably be the first of us and then we will all whine and complain in the last weeks of being pregnant and you can comfort us

Nahh I'll probably only feel like a boob for even whining. If I feel this cruddy now, I can't imagine how mammas feel at full term.

I think I might be just a wuss. It's ok to call me that too. I won't get offended.

On the external version: I am PETRIFIED. I believe babies end up in the womb the way they are comfy and the idea of FORCING them into a position seems so mean. The alternative is a breech delivery, which at 35-36 weeks (whenever I deliver) should be fine as I have a proven pelvis (times four!), but I don't think they would even consider it. : Add to that my extensive abdominal surgery history and a c-section is more frightening. I'd have to have a colorectal surgeon involved as well and it would be way more drama than I need. It's bad enough I will have any, I'd like to limit it as much as possible.

If they can vert me and I can proceed to have a vaginal delivery, I'd be ok. If this baby would turn on it's own, I'd be ecstatic!!

[BodoGirl]

Gosh Soggy...

Sounds like you and I are spending the same amount of time at L&D lately.

Although, you situation sounds more serious than mine...

I called my peri's office yesterday, because Wed, I was in HORRIBLE pain. So bad that I couldn't get out of bed or anything. I am on bed rest too because of protein in the urine - but my BP is consistenly fine. I just get swollen feet/toes/ankles and legs. So, the bedrest seems to be working.

But, I hate sharing any news about my pg with my peri's office. They always insist on me going to the L&D. I know they are just trying to err on the side of caution,but I feel like such a whiner. Anyway, when I finally do call the peri's office, I'm always hesitate with my messages.

So, I go in for 'observation', knowing that I felt much better than yesterday. BUT, that's what they wanted, so...

Babies were perfect (reactive I think she said) and I had absolutely NO contractions this time. My cervix was closed up tight and the best news - no protein in the urine! You know - the picture perfect $500 dollar visit.

All I can say is thank goodness for great insurance!

As for the lack of protein in the urine.... YEAH! I guess the bed resting helps!!!

Anyway, I have my traffic court date on Tuesday at 3p.m., and my peri appt at 4:30 that same day. I can't reschedule the court date, so I have to PRAY they get me in and out first that day at court. What a major pain in the hiney... I also have to hope I don't reswell up before I get to the peri's office. If I'm swollen, I just know she'll put me in the hospital where she can manage my bed resting.

Oh well.. Enough gripes from me!

Oh and for the record on the pain... I had been to the chiro the day before and she worked on my sacrum, and my round ligament. The only thing I can figure is that the ligament got 'bent out of shape' or something. I was in so much pain, I could not move my leg without hurting really bad. AND, I'm not usually such a weenie!

Oh oh oh! Then DH and I stopped at the mall on the way home to get a wedding present for this weekend. Anyway, while we were there, we met a woman with 1 month old baby girl/boy twins. They were SOOO very tiny and so adorable. She ended up perfect like me, until week 33 and then whammo. She ended up in the antepartum bedrest unit of her hospital for 2 weeks. They delivered her at 35.5 weeks.

She did tell me that if I don't hold off on delivering these babies until 36 weeks, that the babies will end up in NICU regardless of weight. So, I have to do everything I can to keep these babies inside.

Hard for me to believe that I may deliver in 4 weeks! I'm trying to hold these babies in longer, but I just don't think I'll have to room to hold them in. They are some giant kids. We'll see though.

Last but not least - the chiro doesn't think the webster method will work on my twins. So, it looks like I'm headed for a freaking c-section : My daughter is transverse and my son is breech. The best possible of all twin positions... not really!

Thanks for letting me babble and know that you are not alone Soggy!

[akulovany]

(((hugs)))