Bed Rest

Thuesday I had a really good appointment with the oncologist. He said the questionable spots didn't look that bad, that he wanted to see me in eight weeks but I would probably get my natural birth! He didn't even take a biopsy. After I got up from my nap though, things started to go down-hill. I noticed when I woke up that I had more than usual discharge and that it was quite watery. I gave it two hours to change while I sat and addressed Christmas cards. When it didn't slow down or thicken I called my nurse. Being that it was 4:30 I didn't get a call back (NOT normal for my ob office), so about a quarter after five I called the after hours number. The RN gave me the advice you would give a woman in pre-term labor (although I had no pain and very minimal discomfort) and called my ob. She called me right back and told me to go to Labor and Delivery, Dr. Rojas would be waiting for me. A good friend picked up Ben, and John and I headed to the hospital, informing the family on the way. Once we got there the nurse realized they didn't have my early registration (they generally send it over around week 20 or 21) but Dr. Rojas walked up and noticed me and PUSHED to get me into a room with an ultrasound machine. He stayed right on top of the nurses to make sure things happened quickly! The first thing he did was the ultrasound. He was VERY happy with what he saw. We were also happy with what we saw... Baby was very active, his arms and legs were flying all over the place and he was kind of looking around! Yes, HE!! Once we saw everything was good on the ultrasound Dr. Rojas did an exam. Everything seemed to look good, but he did notice I had a bit more discharge than he'd expect. He got out the swab (the swab is bright yellow, if there is any amniotic fluid it turns dark blue), and much to his chagrin it turned bright blue... He didn't expect it to turn blue at all, but he had never even seen this particular shade before. He didn't see any pooling, or any liquid actually escaping... But he was still pretty uncomfortable. He took a slide to look at, but that was unhelpful too. When it came down to it, he didn't see a lot of evidence that I was actively leaking, but SOMEthing seemed to be off so he put me on modified bed rest until after my ultrasound this morning.

Things looked good again this morning and with everything back to normal I was taken off bed rest!! We didn't get any very good evidence of his manhood and not enough of a look at his heart so we will be going back in several weeks and hopefully I'll have shots worth sharing. Don't anyone hold out hope that there was a mistake though... This IS a boy! He was quite cooperative Tuesday evening (during his more active time of the day)... The printer just wasn't working!

So, there you have it. Our boy is healthy, strong-willed, and a night owl!