Well, I am 37 weeks! WHOO! I know swelling is just apart of being pregnant so I didn't really worry about my feet being too big for my shoes. Then I noticed that my right foot was swelling a LOT more then my left. I mentioned it to my mom and she encouraged me to do what Google says and call my doctor. I shrugged it off for a while. Well, today my feet were pretty much to same size but my right leg started to hurt a bit. This made me worry. Google says if one swells more it could be a blood clot, so with the swelling and new pain I went ahead and called my doctor after my mom again encouraged me to do so. They asked me to come in. Jonny has 24 hour duty tomorrow so I told him to stay home and I drove out into the night to make sure it was nothing serious. Once I got to the hospital they hooked me up to some monitors (just because it's routine) and left me there because they were having a crazy night and it was obvious I wasn't going to have a baby.
The nurse looked at my legs and assured me I did the right thing by coming in and she thinks my leg is red and my foot is defiantly more swollen then the other one. she looked at my monitor and said "oh look you just had a contraction. Did you feel that?" I reply "nope, didn't feel a thing" When she left an intern came in to examine my legs and told me "eh, doesn't look like anything wrong" he then left and an hour or so later (the wonderful nurse kept coming in to talk to me and bring me ice water. She was super sweet) the doctor showed up she took on look at me and said "I'm not even going to ultrasound it, that'd be a waste of your time at this point. You're fine" The she took a look at my monitor and said "well, I'm going to examine you. Your have contractions every 2-5 mins. did you know that?" I told her I'd started to realize what I was feeling when I was watching the monitor but I didn't know before coming in.
Turns out I'm just a fingertip dilated. But that's better then nothing right!? Now I just need to figure out some ways to get some real labor stuff started. lol
I got home from the hospital a few hours ago and now that I know what I should be "feeling" for I'm noticing contractions left and right and the seem to be getting a little painful. Although, the pain could be all in my head at this point.. lol. It's all very exciting and of course is not helping with my insomnia....
I'll leave you with a picture of Peyton's' crib. It's pretty adorable if you ask me :)
Vanessa and I were just talking about how we think you are going to go early!
ReplyDeleteSending labor dust your way girly!! Can't wait till Peyton arrives!
talking behind my back huh? lol jk. How far along were you when you had Shane? Thanks for the labor dust I need it!
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