Ugh! So last night I was driving home from work and I had exited the freeway and was on the feeder road to drop dinner off for DH at work when this IDIOT pulls out of a driveway in front of me! The feeder road speed limit is 55, I was probably going a little slower about 50 because on a saturday night I figured their would be idiots out. In this area I was in there is a bar and a bowling alley in that center where the guy pulled out. Anyways so he pulls out and there's maybe 3 car lengths between him and I when he pulls out so I had to slam on my breaks, burning rubber and all and came within mere INCHES of hitting the guy! Luckily I didn't. But because of the abrupt stop my stomach immediately tensed up and I was having horrible sharp pains. So I see DH, tell him what happened and went on home to try to see if I could get the pain to stop. I came home and tried everything, tried walking, tried drinking a big glass of water and layed down, tried a warm bath. An hour and a half later the pain still hadn't eased up so I figure better to go have it checked and be safe rather than sorry.
So off we go to L&D. First off, I must say I hate, hate, hate being the patient!!! It's just so hard when you're used to being on the other side. The nurse was really trying to be reassuring and sweet I'm sure, but it felt more like condescending to me! She kept saying things like "I'm sure everything is fine but we'll just check you out for your own peace of mind" Duh lady! I'm sure its okay too, otherwise I wouldn't have waited so long to come get checked out, but I wanted to make sure since the pain wasn't easing up! I'm not a dumb @ss and I'm not a hypochondriac! I'm not an L&D nurse but I do know a few things and I know abrupt stops like that can sometimes tear the placenta and such. So a couple of things really annoyed me. I do the typical pee in a cup thing and she didn't even check it! She just looked at the cup and since it was pretty clear (I had drank like 5 huge 32 ounce cups of water yesterday!) was like "oh it looks good...you seem to be well hydrated!" Um okay, I'm so glad you have x-ray vision and can see if there is any protein in my urine or anything like that that would cause concern. Also when I got home I had taken my BP because I could feel it was high (Hello...stressful incident here!) So at home my BP was in the 150's/100's. I normally run the usual 120's/80's, but since I've been pregnant my pregnancy baseline BP has been in the 100's/70's. Well they didn't even BOTHER to check my BP at all until right before they released me! Then it was in the 130's/90's, which was lower, but still way higher than my baseline and a bit high since by this point nearly 3 hours had passed since the incident. Also they only kept me on the monitors for about 45 minutes. I had 3 contractions on the monitors and tons of little spikes which she called uterine irritability. Okay not too bad, but if they don't want you to have over 4 and hour and I had 3 in 45 mins, wouldn't you think they would have monitored at least an entire hour to make sure I didn't have one more?! And for the most part Lexi's heartrate was okay, but I was having palpitations and getting bouts of racing heart (of course they aren't monitoring my heart.) But everytime I'd feel that happen her heartrate would shoot up into the 170's and 180's. Her heartrate was staying in the 130's-140's most of the time until my heart would act up, then hers would race. I know normal is 120's-160's so I know that is a bit high, but the nurse was like no big deal. And maybe its not a big deal, once again I don't do L&D, but some sort of explanation would have been nice instead of just brushing me off treating me like a paranoid first time mom! And maybe I am, but I would have much rather had things explained medically like my dr does and not like I'm some sort of dumb kid who doesn't know what's going on and being told "just relax, it's no big deal" Okay maybe its not a big deal, but explain to me WHY its okay rather than just saying its okay! So the whole experience really irked me! Now I'm really not going to want to go back until I know I'm in full blown labor because I don't want to be talked to like I'm stupid! And I'm sure that's not how she meant it, I'm sure she was just trying to lower my stress level and all that, but that's certainly how it came across to me. Maybe its just the medical background (of course I don't let them know I'm an RN as well, after all I'm a total newbie
) but I did learn a thing or two in school and I appreciate the medical lingo and the explinations!
So anyways after an eventful night all is well. Still having some minor contractions but hey I'm sure that's normal for this late in the game! My stomach is super sore though, which she said would be since the force of the extra weight stopping like that. The seatbeat got a good jab in me too. I did call in today since I need to take it easy so I guess the good thing about it is me and DH get a much needed day off together! Yep gotta look at the bright side of things!
I am determined not to return to L&D until I got a hand poking out waving "hi mommy, its time!"
Okay just realized I wrote a novel! Thanks for reading!
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, he installed the baby gates, steam cleaned the carpets, organized and cleaned the closets, and cleaned the bathrooms. I did scrub the toilets, but that's about all I did! 
I do too but she needs to stay in a bit longer!
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