Today's Dr appt was the "same ol" news with elevated BP, protein in my urine. My cervix STILL hadn't progressed any to be favorable towards induction. Avery is fine inside of me - meaning she's thriving.
The Dr hooked me up to a NST monitor for over an hour where they look at baby's heartbeat, any signs of fetal stress, monitor movement and any contractions. In the hour and a half I was hooked up to the monitor, I had 2 contractions - and they weren't even "real" contractions but rather little 'practice' ones. Avery was very active and not under any stress.
Then Dr. D said the inevitable. C SECTION. He's worried that because of her size (8 pounds now) and my cervix being "non-induceable" AND the looming Pre-E/Toxemia, that if he were to wait until Cervix was ready, she would be too big or I would have developed more severe case of this pre-e crap and if he were to induce now, that the cervix isn't ripe enough to open and I would be in a lot of pain for a long time without getting anywhere fast and more than likely (75% likely) to end up w/ a C-section after hours of labor.
Here's the Rock... here's the hard place...
So - I asked to schedule the surgery for Wednesday - to allow my mom to fly in... Apparently late week surgeries are popular because the only opening was for tomorrow at 12:00 pm. And the dr didn't feel comfortable letting me wait until Saturday.
It's done... it's scheduled...
It's not what I wanted but I feel better knowing we have a definitive plan in place now and I won't get toxemia and Avery won't be in any danger.
Please keep me in your prayers tomorrow. I have never gone through any major surgery until now and I'm scared to death about it. I don't like needles, I don't like drugs, I don't like the idea of being awake while I'm being opened up.
However... that being said, I am so so so excited to meet my daughter tomorrow and become a MOTHER. How freaking cool is that????
5 comments:
Congrats!! I will keep you and your family in my prayers. Post pictures soon.
holy cow! congrats! how exciting!!! i will keep you guys in my thoughts and prayers tomorrow!
Wow Sarah congrats!! You, Avery and Robert will be in my thoughts and prayers tomorrow! You are going to be a MOM yay!!!
SARAH!!! You are going to be a mommie in 2 hours and 45 minutes!!! I'm so happy for you. I will be thinking and praying for you and your precious baby girl Avery today!(i just love her name)
SARAH!!!! Congratulations! Know that I'm thinking about you, today is going to be a magical day.
Nicol
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