HeppiBean
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Ok so at around 2 o clock this afternoon as I was walking into town I started getting really bad pains around my bump. They kind of started by my spine, felt like I'd been punched in the back and shot around growing in intensity until they were stabbing pains right in the centre at the bottom of my bump. I thought they were probably just stretching pains/pains from walking around and got on with my afternoon. Around half 4 I started to realise that every time I got these pains they were getting worse and causing me much more pains. There was also a pattern to them... They lasted 30-60 seconds and were coming around about every 5 minutes... I started panicking and got the bus back straight away so as to see my midwife before my antenatal class started.
My midwife wasn't at the centre however so the centre manager called triage at the hospital to get some advice. By now I was being left crippled and unable to talk/move whilst the pains were there. He told the midwife on the phone what was happening and that I hadn't felt baby move in around 12 hours, she said I needed to go straight to the hospital. The centre put my journey to and from the hospital on their account with a taxi firm so OH and I left immediately.
When we got to triage I was rushed straight through, had my blood pressure taken, pulse measured and temperature taken before being hooked up to the monitor. There was a panic at first as they couldn't find her heartbeat. They had me moving around in all sorts of positions trying to detect it and finally -sigh of relief- there it was.
I was on the monitor thing for an hour. And eventually the two pad thingy's must have started to annoy her as finally she started moving again.
Once I was off the machine they tested my urine and found ketones (I didn't and still don't know what these are? Any help?) so I had to drink a big jug of water, and half an hour later they re-tested. No ketones this time around. They left me to it for a while just poking there head round to check on me every so often and to let me know that the doctor wouldn't be long.
When the doctor turned up he asked what was going on, to describe the pain to him and if I'd had any watery fluid in my underwear. As some of you may know I have been getting this on and off for the last couple of weeks but was told by the midwife on the phone ot was nothing to worry about. I explained this to him and he decided to do an internal examination and 2 different swabs to find out if 1. My waters had broken and 2. I had gone into preterm labour.
After doing the examination and swabs he said he was concerned about the fluid as it was looking like my waters had broken. He told me that they may decide to keep me in over night to have an ultrasound first thing in the morning. The swabs came back negative for preterm labour so he calmed down a bit, (bless him he was really fretting before) and he said that he'd talk to me when he came out of surgery.
I sat around waiting for him scaring myself about what was going to happen... Thankfully when he came out of surgery he said that he'd spoken to the registrar who had decided it was best if they do a blood test, then I go home and get some rest. I'm awaiting an ultrasound appointment (they should be calling me tomorrow) and I've been told that I MUST go back up there if the pains get any more intense/regular or I start losing more fluid.
Basically... He think's my water's have gone and that I have an infection causing me the pain. I have to go for an ultrasound to check on my waters and await the blood results to see if it is an infection. If my waters HAVE gone and I DO have an infection then I'll have to be booked in for constant monitoring and possibly early delivery.....
I'm praying everything is ok! Finger's crossed it's nothing.
Sorry for the longness... xx
My midwife wasn't at the centre however so the centre manager called triage at the hospital to get some advice. By now I was being left crippled and unable to talk/move whilst the pains were there. He told the midwife on the phone what was happening and that I hadn't felt baby move in around 12 hours, she said I needed to go straight to the hospital. The centre put my journey to and from the hospital on their account with a taxi firm so OH and I left immediately.
When we got to triage I was rushed straight through, had my blood pressure taken, pulse measured and temperature taken before being hooked up to the monitor. There was a panic at first as they couldn't find her heartbeat. They had me moving around in all sorts of positions trying to detect it and finally -sigh of relief- there it was.
I was on the monitor thing for an hour. And eventually the two pad thingy's must have started to annoy her as finally she started moving again.
Once I was off the machine they tested my urine and found ketones (I didn't and still don't know what these are? Any help?) so I had to drink a big jug of water, and half an hour later they re-tested. No ketones this time around. They left me to it for a while just poking there head round to check on me every so often and to let me know that the doctor wouldn't be long.
When the doctor turned up he asked what was going on, to describe the pain to him and if I'd had any watery fluid in my underwear. As some of you may know I have been getting this on and off for the last couple of weeks but was told by the midwife on the phone ot was nothing to worry about. I explained this to him and he decided to do an internal examination and 2 different swabs to find out if 1. My waters had broken and 2. I had gone into preterm labour.
After doing the examination and swabs he said he was concerned about the fluid as it was looking like my waters had broken. He told me that they may decide to keep me in over night to have an ultrasound first thing in the morning. The swabs came back negative for preterm labour so he calmed down a bit, (bless him he was really fretting before) and he said that he'd talk to me when he came out of surgery.
I sat around waiting for him scaring myself about what was going to happen... Thankfully when he came out of surgery he said that he'd spoken to the registrar who had decided it was best if they do a blood test, then I go home and get some rest. I'm awaiting an ultrasound appointment (they should be calling me tomorrow) and I've been told that I MUST go back up there if the pains get any more intense/regular or I start losing more fluid.
Basically... He think's my water's have gone and that I have an infection causing me the pain. I have to go for an ultrasound to check on my waters and await the blood results to see if it is an infection. If my waters HAVE gone and I DO have an infection then I'll have to be booked in for constant monitoring and possibly early delivery.....
I'm praying everything is ok! Finger's crossed it's nothing.
Sorry for the longness... xx
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