Moving right along

Let the games begin! Friday afternoon was the start of weekly OB visits--along with weekly pelvics--good times, I tell ya, good times. And no lie, that pelvic was downright uncomfy, no bones about it. And it seemed to go on a lot longer than your standard yearly OB visit pelvic does.

That inaugural pg pelvic found that I was 1 cm dilated and 50% effaced. The doc also was able to feel the baby's head but I didn't ask what station the baby was in. She agreed with the peri to go ahead and schedule my induction for sometime between June 29th and July 1st. Her office will call me this week to let me know when. I guess that's if my body doesn't start labor on its own sometime between now and then.

But after that news, the real fun began. My BP was up (142/96) so the OB checked it a second time and it was just as high. This bought me a ticket to L&D Friday evening, where I was hooked up to the monitor (as was the baby) for several hours and copious quantities of blood were taken from my arm. My BP stayed up consistently in the 140/95 range for about an hour or so. Then the nurse had me lie on my left side and--miracle of miracles--down went the BP into the very normal range (the highest measurement that way was 120/76). So I laid there like that until we got word that all my labs came back normal and that the baby looked fine--which was good for one discharge home ticket. All in all, a not-so-entertaining way to spend 3 hours on a Friday evening. A and I noted that when the time comes to go to the hospital for real, we must be sure to bring games and other fun materials. Otherwise, we'll be bored silly.

When we left and walked by the nurses' station, we said our goodnights--and the nurses responded "we'll see you again soon." No offense, but not too soon, I responded (more like a couple of weeks, I hoped fervently in my head).

Today we're at (possibly) T-minus 2 weeks, 2 days (or less if I go on my own). What? Me worry?