Everything Happens for a Reason (Part 1)
This was definitely a nail biting experience...
At every appointment I have had with the doctor, she asks about fetal movement. She said that I should feel ten movements in two hours a couple of times a day. On a normal day, I get that easy with my little gymnast… Friday was a little different.
I woke up feeling kind of blah, so I decided not to go to school. I spent the day taking it easy until my appointment in the afternoon. I was glad that I already had an appointment scheduled, because I did not feel the baby move all day.
When I got to my appointment, I started out by telling her that I had not felt the baby move all day. She checked her heartbeat and suggested that I go up to labor and delivery triage to be hooked up to some monitors for twenty to thirty minutes to make sure everything is normal.
Talk about a nerve wracking trip to the elevator, then up to labor and delivery! I arrived at triage and the nurses immediately connected me to a few different machines to monitor the baby’s heartbeat, my heartbeat, uterine activity, etc. The nurse told me to relax for a few minutes and she would be back to check in on me.
Relax? I laid there and tried to “relax,” while looking around at all of the medical equipment surrounding me. The nurse came back in about ten minutes later, checked the monitors, and told me I needed to stay for a few more minutes, but she could already see that I had nothing to worry about. Ahh… a deep sigh of relief and back to looking at all of the gadgets in the hospital room. The nurse came back accompanied by a midwife; they looked over everything and said that everything looked perfect and I was good to go.
This was by far the scariest appointment I have experienced, but while I was there I had an epiphany.
Find out what my epiphany was in Part 2! Stay tuned!
Sounds like you had a very nervewracking and scary appointment, but glad to hear everything was okay with you and Braylin. Can’t wait to find out about your epiphany!