Sunday, June 01, 2008

THE WAIT

4 Days in Hospital: a false labour (contractions were up to 20 mins apart and i felt rather painful) ended pretty much soon after i got to the hospital.
I had not, at that point yet, lost the mucous plug that protects the cervix but when i was examined there it was, all over the glove and speculum they used... not a nice view considering it is often mixed with a bit of blood and could be seen as something bad if you didn't read enough about the subject, but a definate sign that it will not be long now anyway. They kept me there a total of 4 days with a drip (then pills) of Miolene, a drug that is supposed to stop you from having any contractions, because they insisted the baby needed at least another couple of weeks more or less, inside my womb, altough at the scan they gave me the same night i arrived, the baby was already a healthy 2.7 kilos and would have surely had no problems even if he had decided to be born for real.
The most unpleasant part of the stay was the 2 big bruises they gave me by trying twice to put the drip on my forearm without succeding and the third one by succeding in putting the drip in the fold of my arm as it's common, obviously the fact of having the drip itself was very uncomfortable and unpleasant...
On the other hand, i shared the room with a younger girl that had had a cute boy via emergency C-section and i got to see how she recovered and dealt with her baby (with the help of her mum and husband as at first she could hardly move). The food was good too but i did have my love to bring me some stuff that was needed and craved for, among these things the toilet rolls as they do not supply the bathrooms with it (preferring to spend more money on trademark nappies for the babies) and water as they don't supply you with that either.
I got to rest a lot, read a novel book i had long left aside, finish to read a pregnancy magazine i got from my future siter in law and kept on reading a book about pregnancy she supplied me with too. Overall i cannot complain and i even got a better picture of my baby at that last scan, a beautiful profile. Now we have but to wait, maybe with this coming new moon, who knows... he will definately be a June and Gemini baby.

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