What a difference a day makes

I woke up yesterday at 1:30 AM to the sound of April screaming my name from across the house. She'd woken up to go to the bathroom, and thought her water broke. When she flipped the light on, the blood running down her legs and leading back to the bedroom told her otherwise. To make things worse, the normally active little girl inside of her was completely unmoving. She thought she had lost her, and she was hysterical.

We immediately rushed to the hospital, agonizing for ten long minutes over what could be going on. When we arrived, they put a monitor on April’s belly to listen for the baby’s heartbeat – and there it was, perfectly normal. The baby was fine. Of course, soon after, she really made her presence known and started kicking. What a stinker! Just like a kid who hides in the closet until her mother reports her missing, and then jumps out and says “Hi Mommy!” This kid is going to be a little prankster, so watch out!

At that point, we were still worried about the bleeding. There hadn’t been any more, but the doctor was concerned that April could have had a placental abruption, where part of the placenta is torn off. I’ll let you research that if you really want, but suffice to say it can mean bad news for the baby, so we weren’t taking any chances. After 12 hours of monitoring (wherein absolutely nothing interesting happened), they let us go, but not without conditions. If she saw any more fresh blood at all, we’d go back to the hospital to induce labor. If not, we’d visit the perinatologist and look at possibly inducing labor anyway.

We got home, finally, with the intention of getting ready for the big trip to the hospital, whenever that may be. With nearly 3 weeks still to go until the due date, we were not in any kind of rush and didn’t have our bags packed. We decided we’d do that, and be ready for whatever happened next.

As soon as we made that decision, of course, April used the bathroom and saw a little fresh blood. Nothing like that morning, but still, it was there. So much for being prepared! I called the doctor, we quickly got our things packed, and off we went to the hospital.

That was last night. The doctor began induction last night, and they’re starting April on pitocin soon. It’s been a little crazy, but with the relatively uneventful pregnancy we’ve had so far, maybe we were due for some craziness. I know you’ve wanted to hear some news from us, and hopefully we can deliver that soon!