35 weeks-hospital visit

It seems like most pregnant women end up visiting the hospital at some point during their pregnancy and I am not referring to the delivery. My hospital visit came yesterday.

As soon as I hit 34 weeks I started to feel a bit different. Started experiencing some swelling, seeing some spots, and feeling some fatigue. I just thought it was because it was getting to the end of my pregnancy. But, on Saturday we had our Pregnancy Center Class and my blood pressure was really high. So, the nurse and midwife instructed us to go to the hospital for some testing/monitoring.

When we got to the hospital they checked us into labor and delivery triage. I first went into a room with the nurse and she hooked me up to a monitor for baby's heart beat and fetal movement/contractions, while she asked me a bunch of questions. In the middle of her questions her phone rang and when she got up from her chair she tripped over all the cords and totally clobbered my ankle and foot!! She was a fairly large women with sneakers on, while I was a swollen pregnant women with my feet exposed in just flip flops! OUCH! She didn't even notice she stepped on me until I grabbed my ankle in pain and then she didn't even seem too concerned! A bit odd!

Anyway, once I was done with that we only had to wait a bit before getting our own little curtained area in the triage. After doing my urine test and changing into my awesome hospital gown they hooked me up with the same baby monitors and a blood pressure cuff that took my BP every 10 minutes. After being monitored for maybe a half hour my BP was still high so they ordered blood work to check for Preeclampsia. While, waiting for the blood work to come back we got to enjoy hearing two women in the surrounding curtained areas going through their contractions. Brian was like "this probably isn't the best place for you to be right now." Definitely gave me a little anxiety!!

About a half hour later they came back with the blood and urine results which were fine, thank goodness. But my BP was still high and when my nurse was going over the monitoring readouts it showed that I was having consistent contractions, like 3 within a 10 minute period. She then checked to see if I was dilated, which I wasn't. So, she called my doctor to see if he was ok with releasing me. Since I wasn't dilated he was fine with releasing me. But, now I am on mild bed rest. I am not supposed to exercise, clean, or go shopping... which is all I ever do, so basically I can't do anything.

I have my follow up tomorrow, so we'll see what my doctor has to say and what my blood pressure is...