Irritable Uterus, Try Irritable EVERYTHING
You’ll have to pardon my pause in posting. I was just released from an extended weekend stay at my local maternity hospital. While the facility is stunningly beautiful and modern, it is not the most restful place.
Vitals taken every 4 hours, meds on various staggered schedules, meal service that takes 45 minutes to 2 hours, monitors, IV lines, Pulse Ox monitors, beep beep beep. Not to mention that everyone within a 2 floor radius has to come and prod their fingers in your lady clam to decide if you are merely a finger tip dilated or maybe more.. and how effaced does she feel? Hmm I’m not sure let me check AGAIN.
Then there is the indignity of being the “trial” patient for a new test and laying splayed out over an upturned bedpan while the nurses scuttle to get it right, breaking the kit, searching for a new one- all while every vertebra in your spine and in that darn hip that falls out of socket screams in agony.
It’s really fun when they discharge you and you are ordered to ignore the contractions, some of which cripple you to the ground- “Oh those aren’t real contractions, your uterus is just irritable”
So question.. um how do I know if I need to go back?
Well, if you are in labor
But, um, wouldn’t painful contractions that I have been ordered to ignore be some kind of sign?
Only if they are changing your cervix
And I would know this how??
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I can tell the next four weeks till the safer zone will be a nail biting roller coaster for us all. Welcome to the ride.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Contractions throughout the pregnancy…not just when in labor? Oh, do I feel sorry for you…
Hope everything goes ok!
January 15th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Oh, I hope the next few weeks are easier than you’re afraid they’ll be. Because ignoring contractions? Well, that just doesn’t seem easy at all.
January 15th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I’m sorry - I didn’t mean to laugh, but your posts just force it out of me. You’ve been in my thoughts! I hope everything goes smoothly for you. Can’t wait to see the next beautiful child you have!
January 15th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Sorry to hear about your hospital stay — hope the situation gets better soon. I’m thinking calming thoughts for you.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Oh girl, I know how you feel!! I was in and out of the hospital the same way with my babies. The kicker was when I was contracting, my cervix CHANGED and they still sent me home, why you may ask? Because my cervix wasn’t changing ENOUGH. I went from a 1-4, but then my contractions stopped for a bit and they said, “well, guess it was false labor”. Um, false, really? It felt pretty damn real to me.
You hang in there girl! If you feel you need to go to the hospital, you go. It is always better to be safe than sorry!!
January 16th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Yikes that sucks! I hope that your little boy is not too eager to get here and that he stays in the oven longer.
January 19th, 2007 at 3:32 am
REST REST REST REST!!!!!!! Hugs sweetie!!
trina
January 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
::Not to mention that everyone within a 2 floor radius has to come and prod their fingers in your lady clam ::
Okay, Not sure what was so funny about this, but OH. MY. GAWD. I laughed *SO* hard I cried! Thanks for the laughter endorphins girl!