I hope everyone’s ok. I have meant to pop in sooner but I have literally been back and forth to the hospital for a week.
I have another growth scan tomorrow, which wasn’t part of my original plan but the doctor who said pre-eclampsia said she wanted one done. It was meant to be for today but they booked it tomorrow which is really frustrating because I’m trying to avoid going there and also using public transport, for obvious reasons.
Anyway, I think (I hope) they may have jumped the gun with the P word. Last week my BP did increase, yes, as did the protein in my urine. BUT, I was extremely anxious and I tend to not eat or drink when I’m like that, so I was also really dehydrated, which my bloods reflected. Moving on to now, today my BP is mostly within the realms of normal (although I am on meds for that) and my urine has gone from 39 which is high, down to 27 today which is normal. So I asked, could it have been dehydration, and yes it could have been. So I told the doctor I saw today that for as long as the baby and I are ok, and my BP is under control, I want to wait for natural labour and I do not want to be induced. She wasn’t happy. She told me that I wouldn’t go into natural labour and that I needed help by way of induction. She then went on to say that what with the current crisis... and implied I was taking up valuable resources by having to go back and forth for extra check ups. So I asked if it would be easier on them if my midwife did the checks at home instead, she then said it wasn’t a case of that at all, but she certainly made it sound as if it was. I was annoyed at the comment that I would not go into labour on my own.
One of the midwives there said precisely what I was thinking which was that surely if the baby and I aren’t ready, a pessary isn’t going to work. Induction just won’t work, quite possibly, and then where does that leave us? C-section?
Anyway I stood my ground and told her providing things are looking ok, I am going to hold on for as long as is safe for labour to start on its own. She then told me I was making the right decision... confusing or what. Some of the doctors seem to be rather confused.
So after hours I went home. Have to go tomorrow, then Thursday, Sunday (midwife may be able to come to me instead that day), Monday I think... I can’t remember but they wrote it down.
The midwife was sort of able to do a sweep today. Cervix was too posterior or whatever before, but today she could get in there just, and feel the head. Only thing is she was back to back at the time and her head was facing upwards so she isn’t helping to thin things out, more ball bouncing for me then