TeniBear Scare

[JennaJayen]

So glad that everything is good!

[rufalina]

Good to hear things or going well. Hope you are relaxing. Time to take ease back and make the most of these last weeks of pregnancy. xo

[christy]

*whew* I'm relieved you are home with cookie still tucked up inside.

[BrightSparkles]

Glad to hear all is well. x

[Iona Macca]

so glad everything is ok with you and cookie, teni...now take it easy!!

[Catastrophic]

Glad to hear all is well xoxo Rest up hun xox

[Footsteps]

So glad all is well huni. Rest up!!! Love to you both xox

[Early Kids]

So pleased to hear xx

[Gigi]

Finally, some good news this year. Glad you're home and good TB.

[Jennifer13]

Hope all stays uneventful for another five or six weeks at least. Glad to hear all is okay.

[krysalyss]

Thinking of you guys!!!! Glad to hear all is ok.

[TeniBear]

Okie dokie, I'm finally back at my computer so I can give "my side" of the saga! I feel awful going through and seemingly picking on Scott's telling of it, because I know he was incredibly worried and he did an amazing job filling everyone in on what was going on. Thank you Bubby xox

Here goes...

She goes about her day and at about 1:30 ish while having a shower she gets a really bad pain in her tummy. She send a message to myself and her mum saying "DON'T STRESS - I've been having pains in my tummy..."

Non-important, really, but it was about 2ish that I got the first painful one, with some incredible nausea. I got out the shower, walked around the house for a bit, and tried to work out if I was going to throw up or not, when I had another couple of slightly painful tightenings.

Then I jumped on facebook and asked in a locked status whether BHs are supposed to be painful (thanks to everyone that replied!) and decided to time them just in case they were regular. I found that some of them were painful with no tight feeling, some were tight with no pain, and the majority were both. I was rating each one out of 10, and the worst was about a 5. That was just before Scott got home.

I get home and start going about my list of menial tasks to do having not gotten the message in the first place... Ask her if she's ok and she informs me (again). Me being the worry wart I am start freaking out! and decided to call the hospital to find out what we should do.

They told us to come in and get a check up so they could be more certain... I was off in a flash, a quick change of clothes and I bolt into her parents to tell them what's going on... Then the back streets we usually take for work because peek hour traffic sucks!

Ohhh, I was so annoyed when Scott got home and didn't ask me about anything. I wasn't worried, myself, but I damn well expected him to worry! I didn't know his phone hadn't been working properly, so when he finally realised something was up I kinda snapped at him that I was trying to work out if I was in labour and didn't he get the message? I told him I wasn't stressing, because for the most part they were light.

As expected, he jumped straight to the phone and told them what he'd heard (which wasn't exactly what I'd said - man brain filtered the "I'm trying to work out if" bit out and kept the "I'm in labour") - then handed the phone to me as another started. The lady on the phone told me that if we were worried, we could come in and get checked. I thought it would be best just so Scott would stop worrying I actually got up and started getting ready to leave, forgetting he hadn't heard what was said.

Once Scott found out we were going to hospital, he sprang into action (as he said) and was out the door about five minutes before I'd managed to get my shorts on! I was the cool cucumber that I am in stressful situations, where he was a stresshead. I even stopped to chat to my brothers for a couple of minutes in the driveway to annoy him a little (shhh)

Had more tightenings in the car, but I could talk through them and still wasn't worried. I was more worried that we were going to crash, since as mentioned before - Scott's a stresshead.

We go through emergency and after a short visit in a side room (where we just sat down for about 5 mins tops) we were escorted up to the LABOUR WARD (which got both of us a little defensive and excited at the same time! One of the Midwives attaches the CTG to her and I try to work out what's happening on the screen as there were two graphs being plotted... (One obviously the Baby's Heart Rate and one turned out to be tracking any changes in her uterus)

The monitors were fun! Once we worked out what "the bottom one" was tracking, Scott started telling me when my belly was tightening! Turned out I wasn't even feeling some of them, and they were regular. On my back I could feel them a little stronger though, so some were quite painful again. I could still talk through most of them, and we were chatting away, listening to Cookie's heartbeat and speculating on what was going on. Both of us were a little scared that Cookie might be coming soon, but a little excited at the same time. I felt awful about the excitement - 32 weeks definitely isn't long enough to be "baking" - but I couldn't help it

The midwife came and held her hand on my belly for a while, feeling one of these tightenings. She waited for ages, and thought she felt a full one - but I kept feeling that same one rise up and up after she took her hand away. It was the worst I had while I was on the machine, and she didn't even realise!

After an hour of that the Doctor gets around to us and tells her what they have to do to check if its a prem Labour and if so the steps they'll need to take after that.

They do they're checking and ten minutes later the test result come back negative for prem Labour and that's pretty much that. "However... we think it would be best, going that this is happening and with the result you had last pregnancy, that we keep you overnight for a closer check" *both of us gulp*

Ah, the dreaded vaginal examination... I was chattering away through that too It was so embarrassing, though, both doctor and midwife had their heads so close to my lady bits (suppose it could've been worse, the doctor could have been a man instead of the lovely youngish woman she was) that I thought they might be trying to go in after the baby! Had a lovely cervical swab done (oh so uncomfortable!) and I was finally released from the straps. Cookie had a nice big roll around after that, since s/he was free as well.

The doctor came back, explained what would happen if each test was positive/negative, held one of the tests out, and said to me "one line's negative, two lines is positive"... I looked, and there was one line. It was the loveliest I'd ever seen That's when she said that even though it was negative, they'd keep me overnight anyway just in case.

I'd been told they were coming back to get a urine sample from me, but even after the doctor came back and said one of the swab tests was negative, they didn't bring me the little cup. So of course once I was actually in the toilet, that's when they brought it in I ended up finally being able to fill it around 3:30am on an "emergency" trip to the loo...

Really, once I knew there was nothing wrong and I just had to stay overnight, the most worrying thing was knowing I was going to be bored! I worried more about the girl in the next bed than about myself - before we went to sleep, she told me she was 28w and had been in for a while in pre-labour. So it was scary to hear her moaning in the middle of the night, I thought things might be kicking off for her

I did have a bit of a cry before Scott left - not from fear, just memories- because I realised the last time I fell asleep in a hospital, Ianto was beside me. I was just really sad remembering that.

ETA: Also, I know I've left heaps out. I was in contact with PZ through most of the start, and Scott got what was in the original SMS completely wrong, etc...

[Inanna]

Oh darling! I have had you in my thoughts so much & I can imagine & can relate to that memory that you had with Ianto.

This baby has a different journey & he or she is really keeping you on your toes! I am glad to hear that cookie is insitu & that you are feeling better.

[Teeki]

Far out teni! I've only just come across this thread, and that first post certainly was scary. So glad you & cookie are ok and you've been able to update. Here's to another 6 weeks baking!

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[diannescruffy]

Teni hun I'm so glad that everything turned out fine.

Regards,
Dianne

[RainbowBrite]

That would have been scary!
I am glad the FFN test came back negative.
Hopefully it was just a one of and you will be announcing little cookies fullterm birth in a few months.
And more for the sad memories

[*Beema*]

Thanks for the full update, I am so glad you are still baking away and that everything seems to be more settled.

Big for the sleeping in the hospital and the memories it bought back

I hope that they next stay is with your gorgeous FT Cookie making those gorgeous NB squeaks next to you

And PS. Scotty it's ok to be the stressed and worried one, my DH is the same, I don't think he would have made it as far in the pregnancy as I did if he was the pregnant one
Take Care xxoo

[Cassius2]

what a major relief for you guys

I can only imagine how full on it all must of been after everyone left and you were alone in the ward with the memories of your time with baby Ianto xx