How I wish this was a birth annoucement!
Well it's the 2nd of February and no baby :(. (EDD was 1st Feb and I was soo sure my waters broke yesterday).
Called up Triage and went in. All to be sent home hours later.
I'm not feeling too great about it. More behind the cut.
Sooo I called up hospital triage at 8pm, a few hours after I'd suspected my waters had gone. I told them what was happening; contractions, leaking all day etc. They told me to come in. I said I was 'fine at home' (because I was) and she said 'I know, honey, but we need you to come in anyway.' I was told to make no rush because there was a que - understatement of the century! Me & my husband had our showers, got changed into fresh clothes, I had some cereal and we basically geared ourselves up for going into hospital to have this baby.
His mum came and picked us up and me, my husband, my mum and my MIL drove to the hospital and got there for 10.30pm - like I said, we were told not to rush, so we didn't and I had a melt down of sorts at home after I got off the phone to the midwife. I just didn't want to go into hospital.
Made our way up to the Triage dept of the maternity unit and waited and waited and waited with my husband in their patient lounge - disgusting and so dirty! The whole unit was filthy. Got talking to a few other people and we were taken into a cubicle just after midnight. They hooked me up the monitor to time contractions and keep an eye on Precious' (our babe) heartbeat. Precious didn't really like that and let it be known to me :D lol. I love being hooked up to that monitor - the belts are sooo comfy hahaha...if I could have a whole maternity outfit made out of that stuff I would.
For some reason before they hooked me up I thought they were gonna tell me the baby was dead - I've had a recurring fear of this happening throughout :(. I knew someone who went to eight months with a still birth and since then it's played on my mind that it *could* happen to me. Sooo I was in floods when I heard that glorious heart beat sound - best noise in the World, if you ask me :).
They said if my waters had broke that they'd give me 24 hours and if nothing was happening, that they'd induce me :( because of the risk of infection - soooo NOT the route I ever want to travel down, but I can't and won't risk infection so I'd have to go for it. Midwife, however, reassured me that a lot of women tend to not need the induction after their waters have gone, so I felt slightly reassured.
Sooo they did a speculum check to see if my waters had broke - no. Nothing. Nada. Nil. ZIP! I felt totally defeated and stupid. The midwife and the doctor made me feel like I wasn't a complete time-waster, though and spent their time reassuring me. It was weird looking that doctor in the eye after what she did to me - I felt sooo weird after the check lol :(. After the speculum check they quickly did a cervical check.
"Your cervix is completely closed."
A strange relief washed over me, I guess. Cervical check = not as bad as I thought it would be. The speculum was way worse, but again, not as bad. I just closed my eyes and gripped my husbands poor hand. I was relieved in part to hear my waters hadn't actually gone because I really, really, REALLY do not want an induction at this point. I'm feeling fine, I'm a day over 40 weeks and I feel absolutely fine about keeping the cupcake in the oven to cook it out :). And the best part is that my hospital and my family support that decision.
I was crying so much before they did the two exams - I was scared of what they would feel like, I guess. But honestly...it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm not gonna lie and say it was great, because it wasn't, but it wasn't what I was expecting it to be.
Oh, and, I went to the toilet to give a urine sample and well basically someone's waters had broke in the toilet before I'd been in. It was disgusting. They have a real problem with contract cleaners and it's not the midwife/nurses job to clean up after that kind of thing so no one cleaned it up...but it was terribly dirty. The bin was overflowing with toilet paper, too. The whole hospital is pretty much a cess pit.
Anyway, they sent me home. My blood pressure was a bit higher than normal, so I have to go back to the Daycare Unit on Thurs to have that monitored...however, the midwife sent me home reassured by the fact that it's very likely things will kick off before then. I don't imagine they will lol. Nothing goes to plan and like I said, happy to let the cupcake cook. lol.
We got stopped by the police on the way back home - yay. So that delayed us getting into bed even more (hospital is a good half hour drive away since our lovely government decided to shut down the maternity unit near us). It was just a random check, but I didn't get to bed until after 3am and then for some bizzare reason woke up super early and couldn't get back to sleep.
Sorry this got long, I started out feeling really emotional about the vaginal checks they did to me - after it I felt reallly weird. I had a cry about it this morning. I don't know why I'm being so weird about it, they were just checks...but I felt so powerless and tiny when they were doing it. I'm glad to say they were quick as they possibly could be and they weren't hanging around in there so I don't get why I'm being weird about it. I know things will be more intense than that during birth so I need to get a grip of myself.
Called up Triage and went in. All to be sent home hours later.
I'm not feeling too great about it. More behind the cut.
Sooo I called up hospital triage at 8pm, a few hours after I'd suspected my waters had gone. I told them what was happening; contractions, leaking all day etc. They told me to come in. I said I was 'fine at home' (because I was) and she said 'I know, honey, but we need you to come in anyway.' I was told to make no rush because there was a que - understatement of the century! Me & my husband had our showers, got changed into fresh clothes, I had some cereal and we basically geared ourselves up for going into hospital to have this baby.
His mum came and picked us up and me, my husband, my mum and my MIL drove to the hospital and got there for 10.30pm - like I said, we were told not to rush, so we didn't and I had a melt down of sorts at home after I got off the phone to the midwife. I just didn't want to go into hospital.
Made our way up to the Triage dept of the maternity unit and waited and waited and waited with my husband in their patient lounge - disgusting and so dirty! The whole unit was filthy. Got talking to a few other people and we were taken into a cubicle just after midnight. They hooked me up the monitor to time contractions and keep an eye on Precious' (our babe) heartbeat. Precious didn't really like that and let it be known to me :D lol. I love being hooked up to that monitor - the belts are sooo comfy hahaha...if I could have a whole maternity outfit made out of that stuff I would.
For some reason before they hooked me up I thought they were gonna tell me the baby was dead - I've had a recurring fear of this happening throughout :(. I knew someone who went to eight months with a still birth and since then it's played on my mind that it *could* happen to me. Sooo I was in floods when I heard that glorious heart beat sound - best noise in the World, if you ask me :).
They said if my waters had broke that they'd give me 24 hours and if nothing was happening, that they'd induce me :( because of the risk of infection - soooo NOT the route I ever want to travel down, but I can't and won't risk infection so I'd have to go for it. Midwife, however, reassured me that a lot of women tend to not need the induction after their waters have gone, so I felt slightly reassured.
Sooo they did a speculum check to see if my waters had broke - no. Nothing. Nada. Nil. ZIP! I felt totally defeated and stupid. The midwife and the doctor made me feel like I wasn't a complete time-waster, though and spent their time reassuring me. It was weird looking that doctor in the eye after what she did to me - I felt sooo weird after the check lol :(. After the speculum check they quickly did a cervical check.
"Your cervix is completely closed."
A strange relief washed over me, I guess. Cervical check = not as bad as I thought it would be. The speculum was way worse, but again, not as bad. I just closed my eyes and gripped my husbands poor hand. I was relieved in part to hear my waters hadn't actually gone because I really, really, REALLY do not want an induction at this point. I'm feeling fine, I'm a day over 40 weeks and I feel absolutely fine about keeping the cupcake in the oven to cook it out :). And the best part is that my hospital and my family support that decision.
I was crying so much before they did the two exams - I was scared of what they would feel like, I guess. But honestly...it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm not gonna lie and say it was great, because it wasn't, but it wasn't what I was expecting it to be.
Oh, and, I went to the toilet to give a urine sample and well basically someone's waters had broke in the toilet before I'd been in. It was disgusting. They have a real problem with contract cleaners and it's not the midwife/nurses job to clean up after that kind of thing so no one cleaned it up...but it was terribly dirty. The bin was overflowing with toilet paper, too. The whole hospital is pretty much a cess pit.
Anyway, they sent me home. My blood pressure was a bit higher than normal, so I have to go back to the Daycare Unit on Thurs to have that monitored...however, the midwife sent me home reassured by the fact that it's very likely things will kick off before then. I don't imagine they will lol. Nothing goes to plan and like I said, happy to let the cupcake cook. lol.
We got stopped by the police on the way back home - yay. So that delayed us getting into bed even more (hospital is a good half hour drive away since our lovely government decided to shut down the maternity unit near us). It was just a random check, but I didn't get to bed until after 3am and then for some bizzare reason woke up super early and couldn't get back to sleep.
Sorry this got long, I started out feeling really emotional about the vaginal checks they did to me - after it I felt reallly weird. I had a cry about it this morning. I don't know why I'm being so weird about it, they were just checks...but I felt so powerless and tiny when they were doing it. I'm glad to say they were quick as they possibly could be and they weren't hanging around in there so I don't get why I'm being weird about it. I know things will be more intense than that during birth so I need to get a grip of myself.