On Monday, August 24th, I went in for my weekly doctors appointment. I was informed that my blood pressure was high and I was sent over to the hospital to the Labor and Delivery Triage for some monitoring. After 2 hours, my blood work and other tests came back fine. (they were looking for signs of pre-eclampsia) I was sent home but on bed rest. The next day, I woke up with a headache, so back to Labor and Delivery triage I went for more monitoring and test. AGAIN, they came back fine but I was to follow up with my doctor the next day.
So...Wednesday, I followed up with my doctor. Who then said that even though my tests were not showing anything bad....my symptoms and body was saying something else and maybe it was time to have a baby. Yippee!! At this point, I was 39 weeks along. My lovely Dr. was on call for the next 20 hours so he called the hospital and set it up for me to show up at 3 pm that day to be induced! He told me to go home and take a nap and meet us at the hospital then. TAKE A NAP???? yeah right!
So by 5pm that day, I was on pitocin and my contractions started. To make the story shorter, 22 hours later (and after my doctor had already gone home) I was 9 cms dialated, fully effaced but Hope hadn't dropped at all. The worst part was that because of my high blood pressure I was not aloud to walk the halls or stand to help drop her....it was either the bed or the rocking chair and neither one helped. So at 3pm, the next day the on call doctor came in and said she was going to do a c-section. By that time, I was cool with that :)
Hope Victoria was born August 27, 2009 at 3:35pm. She came into this world after 22 hours of labor and pitocin and finally a c-section. She weighed 8lbs 1oz, 20 inches long.
Here are a few photos from when she was first born:
Baby Hope, minutes old
Pete meeting Hope for the first time
Pete meeting Hope for the first time
My goal is to get this blog updated of the last 8 months and keep it currently updated from now on.....so I will catch up soon!
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