With every pregnancy comes the trip to the hospital where you think .... just MAYBE ... you might have a baby!!! And I was beginning to think that Shila wasn't going to have that. Today marks one week from the latest we'll have a baby. She is scheduled for his c-section on August 4th.
So last night into the morning Shila was having some intense back pain. She's had nagging back pain for the last month or so. Enough that she brought it up at her last appointment (July 21st) and now she says it's way worse. She says it feels like when she started labor with Clairah, only worse, because she had back labor with Clairah too.
Lower back, radiates up. Hurts worse sitting down, feels better walking ... etc and so on. She tried tylonel and a bath, just kept getting worse. So she decided she wanted to go in.
We got there, got taken back to Room #1 .... she got changed into a gown, asked me to tie her up.
She was so funny - she went in the bathroom and you could hear her say "OMG this is NICE! It's got a shower in here! Holy COW there is a HAIR DRYER IN HERE!!" She was just going on and on about the hair dryer and Kale and I were laughing. It was a too funny. I kept saying "she's not in labor, she's laughing too much" ...
Nurse came in and hooked her up to the monitor, checked her cervix and she's still closed up like Fort Knox. (I guess she didn't dilate with Clairah)
But as you can see from the pictures below, she was definitely having contraction.
There was a good 5 minutes in there where Kale was making her laugh her head off - literally she couldn't stop laughing, I told him to go sit in the corner of the room on the couch so she couldn't see him cuz you can't get a reading on the baby or the contractions if she's laughing like a loon! LOL
She also filled out all her pre-registration paperwork (ha ha ha) cuz we hadn't done it at all yet. Whoops! We were supposed to make an "appointment" about a month before her being born - and well... yeah. Dropped the ball on that one. But it's done now. (In the picture, she's looking at the pain scale thing paper)
Alas - since the contractions were irregular and she wasn't dilated, effaced, engaged.... or crying from pain, she got sent home. 38 weeks pregnant.
It would be AWESOME if she was born today though. Clairah's birthday is June 28th. Elly's would have been July 28th! Oh well. No baby.
Shi had her VERY LAST OB visit today too. Just a little over 8 hours after getting out of the L&D .. we were sitting in the waiting room for her OB visit. Lookie this baby!!!
She was bored. She was reading all about labor and all the things she won't experience cuz she's having a c-section. And then she was spinning around on the stool. She was also snooping in drawers... ha ha ha ha ....
So prior to the actual day starting, Nathan did a fasting blood sugar of 151. I called the DR to let them know what the fasting was. Then I called Endocrinology just to let them know what was going on and to see if they had run an A1C during his last routine blood tests. And they hadn't..... now I'll start sharing FB Statuses from the day too....
FACEBOOK UPDATE: Now Nathan might have diabetes...Okay so his boy bits have been swollen again...Did a pee dip on him yesterday morning....Ketones were abnormal...So I did a non-fasting blood sugar on him....It was 252 yesterday...This morning's fasting bs was 151...Called his DR who he saw yesterday, he said just keep an eye on him, I called his endocrinologist to let them know what is going on...Endocrine called back, told them the story, they said they would call back, the doc called back (not the nurse) and she wants me to feed him something high in carbs and sugars and do his bs 1 hour after..If it's over 200 he might be admitted for a few days...Or we may just do a diabetes thing in the clinic on Thursday
FACEBOOK UPDATE: How much more can this kid take? I am really angry at the world right now, I may put a smile on my face and try to pretend I am calm but I am fuming inside. We are on our way to the ER in Tacoma right now (that is where his endocrinologist is) ... Nathan had some ketones yesterday that prompted my doing his blood sugar which was 252, his fasting was 151 this morning. Doc wanted us to give him a high carb, high sugar meal to see what his body did. His BS was 105 prior to the meal. Thought maybe it was a fluke. He ate 1/4 a sandwich with meat and cheese, had a few sips of Dr Pepper, and some apple. His blood sugar was 453. Yep. Hello admittance anyone? To top it all off, we have NO money until Friday. No way to eat. Oh well.
We did another pee strip on him before leaving, and it was pretty much normal. Maybe some white blood cells spilling. His Ketones might be a tiny amount elevated, it's not really the neg color and it's not really the +small color.
FACEBOOK UPDATE: We are at the ER now, been here about hour and a half or so ... Talked to the Nurse, talked to the DR, repeated the story 10 times or so for various people.... Nathan doesn't feel sick, so the thought of an IV sent him over the edge, and he had a major kicking and screaming melt down. He was yelling for DB to "put me down" and it killed me, broke my heart, I almost started crying. I am praying that our tests were all wrong and this isn't true, that this isn't a reality ... I want this NOT TO BE TRUE so bad.... so we finally got him to do his breathing for the IV, she got it placed, but it was a hard placement and she managed to get blood out of it before it blew up like a tiny little balloon. Right now he's escaping into the land of youtube on my phone. It's about all I can do for him right now to help him. DB and I are so very much on edge right now. We just want them to come in and say the jokes on us and we can go home.
We were put in this room, with the Octopus on the door. He had an Octopus on his shirt too! LOL
FACEBOOK UPDATE: We are at the ER now, been here about hour and a half or so ... Talked to the Nurse, talked to the DR, repeated the story 10 times or so for various people.... Nathan doesn't feel sick, so the thought of an IV sent him over the edge, and he had a major kicking and screaming melt down. He was yelling for DB to "put me down" and it killed me, broke my heart, I almost started crying. I am praying that our tests were all wrong and this isn't true, that this isn't a reality ... I want this NOT TO BE TRUE so bad.... so we finally got him to do his breathing for the IV, she got it placed, but it was a hard placement and she managed to get blood out of it before it blew up like a tiny little balloon. Right now he's escaping into the land of youtube on my phone. It's about all I can do for him right now to help him. DB and I are so very much on edge right now. We just want them to come in and say the jokes on us and we can go home.
Child Life brought in an iPad for him to watch while they were trying to place the IV ... then they let him watch it for a little bit.... and they took it away. LOL. So he ended up watching Youtube on my phone.
FACEBOOK UPDATE: Thank the STARS we're going home! Tests showed absolutely no signs of diabetes!!! Whew. This is definitely one thing we didn't want him to have. She said "maybe the meter was off?" Maybe - but Dennis took his blood sugar right after Nathan's and it was fine. But WHEW... WHEW... WHEW!
He was totally mesmerized by this bubble wall. This is in the waiting room of the ER in Tacoma. Could have watched that all night probably! I did a video of it too. That'll be up on our Youtube Channel soon.
Finally headed home. Goodbye Tacoma... hello Peninsula!
Got home, we had lasagna, and we all went to bed. Oye. Exhausted.
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