1/18/11

As I am sure many of you know that I was in the hospital from Sunday night to Monday afternoon. Sunday afternoon I had some light spotting and called my doctor to ask him if it was a concern or not. He decided that he wanted me to go get an NST and AFI done just to make sure that everything was okay with baby. He said he called the IMC on 53rd and that they were expecting me (so we didn’t have to go all the way down to provo). When we got there they basically admitted me even though all I was only there for the NST/AFI. I have learned that blood after an abruption gets everyone all up in arms, no matter how little the amount is. The doctors did a pelvic exam, checked my cervix, did a NST/AFI and measured the baby. Then decided to keep me overnight because there was “blood on my cervix” … (tmi?). I had to sign a bunch of consent forms for a csection and for a tubal - and I was also asked about a thousand times by different doctors, residents and med students if I was sure about the tubal. (They even tried to scare me out of it by saying things like “It’s not reversible.” and “The regret rate is higher when you’re so young. It makes you sterile.” GREAT! Sign me up!) Basically they thought that they were going to have to deliver at some point that night and wanted to get everything in order. Then they drew blood and made me move rooms. They weren’t letting me eat or drink. And eventually had to give me an IV - which was extremely painful and almost made me pass out. (and even more painful when the nurse tore it out the wrong way) And after a long night of annoying monitors and med students coming in I got sent home. So, everything with the baby is fine, I’m fine and they were just being overly cautious.