being pregnant that is!!! baby boy needs to make an appearance already!!! yesterday i woke up in more excruciating pain than i've had the whole time, which has been pretty bad anyway. i ended up calling the doctor to see if there was something i could do about it and she wanted me to go to l&d to get checked out to make sure nothing major was going on. we got there a couple of hours later (decided that since i wasn't on the verge of delivering in my home that we'd pack bags and get the kids situated watching movies, etc. while we went to the hospital). i got all registered, had to leave a cup "donation" for them to check out, and get dressed in one of those lovely hospital gowns that opens in the back so you're at risk of mooning the world if you walk anywhere in it...that was great!
they put me on a monitor, the baby got hiccups and kept kicking the monitor. his heart rate was good. i on the other hand, had been having regular contractions all most all week long 10-20 minutes apart and they were 7-10 minutes apart the whole night before this...the whole time i was on the monitor, i had TWO contractions, that's all!!! one of my OB's arrived, checked everything out, nothing "major" is wrong, i'm not dilated enough to stay, so she offers some extra pain meds and clears me to be sent home.
i lost it, i just started crying because the pain has been so bad (i couldn't move my right leg even one inch by sliding it over without serious pain!!!). on top of that, i soooo was hoping that he would be born in august and miss the school cut-off, but that's not such a big deal because there are worse things in the world to deal with than an extra year of day care tuition! lol so i got the shot of morphine to take the pain away for the rest of the day, got dressed and headed home.
jerry and i stopped for lunch at applebee's (at about 3:00 p.m.) and picked up a pizza on the way home for the kids. the morphine....it's a good thing! i was tired for the rest of the evening, but i was also pain free!!!
so here i am, on labor day and NOT in labor!!! i laid around all morning because i was in so much pain again, and the contractions i've been having are pretty much gone (i'm wondering if morphine is a muscle relaxer and helped to cause them to stop?!?). i've been working on some school work this afternoon, then went to the grocery store (attempting to walk around to get things going again) and besides being in pain again, nothing else is happening...
grrr!!! lol
