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waiting for baby
Yesterday was a very long day. Ashley started having contractions Sunday evening around 8:30. They were a little uncomfortable, and anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes apart, so we didn’t think too much about it. I just kept giving her water (after all it IS my Windex) and told her to try to get some sleep. surprisingly enough, she was actually able to sleep, even though the contractions continued through the night.
I called the doctor’s office yesterday morning, after the contractions had been going on for over 12 hours. The nurse told me to bring Ashley in so they could hook her up to the monitors to see what was going on. Once we got there and they did their little test, they determined she was dilated to 2, and sent her over to the Labor & Delivery floor of the hospital for further observation.
The contractions were pretty good ones ~ spiking off the chart about every 2 minutes. After 4 hours, though, there was no change in dilation, so the doctor decoded that since Ashley has just reached the 36 weeks point, it was time to stop the contractions and not let her go into what is still considered “early labor” at 36 weeks. So, they pumped her full of drugs (that none of us were happy about, but the benefits of waiting at least another week before delivery far outweigh any short-term side effects Ashley was made to suffer through because of the drugs) and eventually the contractions stopped. We were at the hospital for about 12 hours before we were finally able to go home.
Ashley got up this morning and said she was having contractions again, but she didn’t know how regular they were because she had been sleeping. She went back to bed, so they must not be too intense right now. The doc said the contractions are fine, but unless she dilates to at least a 4 he’s not going tolet her deliver before 37 weeks. She has a regular doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning, so we’ll see if she has dilated any more by then.
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