Okay, I will give it a go, though I will probably have to do it in bits.. it's a long story!
Okay, on Thursday, one week before my due date, I had my weekly appointment at the gyn. I expected another one of those "Yeah, all is well, nothing happening anytime soon"-statements, but instead, after he looked at the CTG, he asked me, whether the baby had been moving less. I said that, yes, he had, but I had thought that was normal this close to the due date. He said he was concerned about the CTG and the fact, that the baby was moving less, made him want to admit me to hospital for monitoring. I was stunned and got home, finished packing my labour bag (yeah.. I know.. I had been tempting fate by leaving it for so long) and off to hospital we went. They put me on a CTG there and did an u/s and the (very young) female doctor said, that everything looked fine. They would take me in and do another CTG in the evening and one in the morning and if they also looked fine, I could go home.
The evening one went for an hour by accident (misunderstanding between me and the nurse) and the last half hour of it actually looked quite crazy. On Friday morning they said they'd do another 2 CTGs, so I had one in the morning and one at lunch time. I sat there in the hospital room and hadn't seen a doctor who could tell me what was going on and I was fed up with the insecurity and waiting, so I went to the nurses room and demanded to see a doctor. A doctor came and I asked him what was going on and whether I could go home or what the deal was. He said that I would be induced either on Saturday or Sunday. That there was something wrong on the CTG but it wasn't an emergency and because their labour ward was currently full, I would have to wait until things calmed down to be induced.
I was quite surprised and nervous. I went to bed, wondering, whether on Saturday I'd be holding my boy.
Saturday morning came, another CTG, the nurse said "Oh, it looks fine" when she looked at it. Hmmm.. Lunch time came, another CTG, another nurse going "Oh it looks fine". More "hmmmmm" from me. I asked the nurse when I'd be induced and she said that it didn't look like it would happen today. I was fed up with the waiting around and after some encouragement from my room mate, I went to the labour ward and demanded to see a doctor again.
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