Two years ago today I went to work at school in my second grade classroom as usual. It was the third week of school I think. I had moved my doctors appointment up a day because we knew Dr. Casavant would likely say let's get things moving and we were ready. I hoped that by moving my appointment up to the 9th, it would mean Sam would most likely not be born on September 11th- a day and memory I prefered not be associated with his birthday if we could help it. Bryan joined me at the appointment where we had one last ultrasound. Dr. Casavant didn't love my blood pressure or the ginormous amount of swelling in my legs and feet. He told us to go home, shower, pack a bag, eat something and get to the hospital by 7:30ish for preeclampsia bloodwork. If my numbers were normal, they'd send us home and if high, they'd keep us and break my water. I remember as soon as we got there they wisked Bryan away for the check in process and a nurse hurried me into a gown. I keep explaining that I didn't know if we were staying for sure because we needed to get the results back first. She continued to assure me that I was 38 weeks, 5 days.... I was staying and going to have this baby. : ) Dr. Casavant showed up a few hours later and said one of my indicators was really high and I would have been officially preeclamptic in a few days so it was go time! He broke my water around 10:30, began pumping me full of magnesium sulfate (ick!) and we were officially in labor!
It's fun to think back to that whole process. More to come soon... Tomorrow is a big day around here!
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