morning all!
bumpalump - that's what happened to me with DS. just G&A for delivery, but 3rd degree tears and spinal for that. it'll be tender for a while but it will get better. welcome Jacob!!
xx
BB - it took your body NINE MONTHS to get that way. it'll take a little bit to get back to normal too. (probably not nine months but more than a couple weeks)
sooooo...i had one hell of a day yesterday! (this is LONG...sorry)
had MW appt at 2:30. left DS with my friend who lives just around the corner from the office. (i should point out that we walked there. probably not my best idea but i don't drive so i don't really have a lot of options)
went into appointment (eventually...they were running 20 minutes late and it was hot in the waiting room. i almost fell asleep) so my BP was up. 140 over 85 i think. and trace of protein in my urine (had that 2 weeks ago as well but BP was fine then) so she said she'd listen to the baby's heart and check BP again (because you know hearing that my BP is up is going to HELP and relax me and it'll go down within 3 minutes...)
so checked again and (surprise suprise) still up. when this happened with DS i was sent to the day care unit the next day so i was thinking that's fine DH will take friday off we'll go to the hospital for a while then do lunch have a nice day together....oh no. they want me to go. immediately. so i phone DH and tell him (he was just leaving the office anyway but with trains it's takes him an hour to get home)
then i walk to my friends to get DS (mostly i just want to sit down and have a cup of tea and a chat which was always the plan!) MIL phones...i'll come get you and take you to the hospital. no ihave to go home and get my back etc. so she says she'll take me home to do that. i try to get DS ready he's having a blakk and doesn't want to leave. screams and cries (totally helping my BP).
so get home try to throw a few things together for DS (So unorganized. i've been menaing to do his bag for ages and haven't got around to it.)
House is a TIP BTW. i've been doing odds and ends but generally it's horrible. HUGE pile of laundry in the dining room that i have to claw through to find stuff for DS. while MIL (who is, or course, a domestic goddess and her house is always tidy) hovers (at one point she asked if the clothes in the basket were clean ) so i get my stuff to gether. phone my mom in canada to let her know what's going on (i'm sure my BP must have been sky high at this point because i was trying to get everything ready and MIL was pissing me off to no end...having a go at me because i put salt on my dinner the other night...)
so DH gets home, we get going to hospital. i'm on the verge of tears because i am a) stressed b) pissed off at MIL c) worried about DS who is still upset about leaving his friend's place. DH tried to reassure me by telling me how much ds loves his gran and loves going to her place and would rather be there than home... (is THAT hleping?? um NO)
so we get to the hospital. about 4:30. another urine test (still trace protein) check BP (still up) put me on a trace at nearly 5. baby's heart rate is fine. take bloods. Doctor comes to chat. he's about 12 (conker - cute greek doctor at stirling! ) basicaly tells me what i already know, that they are checking for PE. (the place is packed BTW - everyone has high BP and suspected PE) he then gets called away to do an emergency section.
we're undone from the trace. at 7 we#re sent to the waiting room to wait to see the doctor with blood results.
TWO uncomfortabel hours later (hard chairs, feet are swollen up even more) i go to see the MW to see if there's any chance of seeing a doc that night... asnd doc walks in. eventually she comes to talk to us and we are sent home. no PE. but BP is raised so i need to be careful and watch for warming signs. and my iron is low so i'll need tablets.
phew. leave hospital. go pick up some KFC and head home.
we pick up DS get home and DS starts in about me donig to much, and then about the house being a mess and i shouldb't have taken DS out because he's getting a nasty cough and... WTF? thankfully i nkow that this is what he does when he's stressed and worries about me. he has a go at me. but he's lucky i didn't punch him in the nards.
he lewft for work this morning before we were up so when ispoke to him at 8 his mom had already phoned him an hour before to see how we were. oh and to go on and on about how she should do my ironing for me. (THAT'S that bit that bothered her the most...not the possible PE but that i'm shit at keeping house!)
arrgfgggggggg. sorry. this has been epic-ly long. i just needed to get it all out. i'm basically house bound so i have no one to talk to (my 2 best friends - ones working today and uncontactable and the other lost her phone) and i need to rant. and i think i'll probably be crying a lot today.