Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Still Waiting
We are still in the labor & delivery room with IVs growinglike weeds around the bed.
Last night they started monitoring the baby directly with an electrode, after breaking through and guaranteeing that one way or another there will be a baby today, not tomorrow. I was already to fall asleep to the soothing sound of Sadie’s heartbeat when they changed to internal monitoring and a annoying beeps instead. I got maybe 2 hours sleep, but that’s better than poor Deb did.
Anywho, this morning first thing the OB we didn’t deal with the whole pregnancy got worried about her blood pressure being on an upward trend. There was some back and forth with the nurse, who knew part of the problem was inaccuracy due to overly small cuff and it being, for the higher readings, on the arm under her (alternating leaning on the left and right sides).
We also learned that it is likely, rather than merely possible, for this to end up C-section. They’re still working on it. There are pretty regular and painful contractions.
So that’s the news so far.