Thursday, September 25, 2008

Wednesday doctor and Hospital

Wednesday morning all started with a little cramping and just not feeling right. Since Harry insisted, at lunch I called Dr. Peeden and she asked me to come in. She found blood in my urine and performed a non stress test. Baby Claire was very active and her heart was beating between 140 to 150. The Non Stress test was not picking up contractions at that time and we believe this was only due to the monitor being placed high on my tummy. Dr. Peeden also did a cervix check and that is when she became worried and sent us to St Mary's.
At St. Mary's we had the luxury of being placed in Triage. Luckily we only had 1 other room mate for the first 2 hours or so. In Triage, I was hooked up to the same monitor as I had been on at Dr. Peeden's office. Dr. Tatum was my doctor on call and when he finally was able to come visit, he was able to feel my contractions with his hand and decided to put me on Indomethacin as well as give me shots of Betamethasone to help Claire's lungs in case she came early. He did an ultrasound and once again we were able to watch our little girl be super active. Dr. Tatum decided he wanted me to stay the night and continue monitoring the contractions. He also ordered for an ultrasound to measure my cervix on Thursday morning in their office.
Around 9:15 pm I was finally placed in my own room and was much more comfortable. The Indomethacin knocked out the contractions for the time being. At 2:30 am my nurse came in the room because I was having contractions. She gave me more Indomethacin as well as Ambien to sleep.
Thursday's on call doctor was Dr. Tsaltas. He woke me up at 6:30 am very chipper and asking all sorts of questions that are difficult to answer when you are half asleep. He released me from the hospital and had me head to his office after getting breakfast. He had to deliver 4 babies before he saw me, so Harry and I waited quite a while. We had a long list of questions for him and he spent a good 30 minutes explaining everything. They did measure my cervix and he has decided to put me on bed rest until the baby comes. I will also have weekly visits now.
Please pray for our family.
I will try to keep everyone updated!

1 comment:

AGD said...

So glad y'all are ok. Hope to see you soon.