Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Okay, so Thursday nite i'm at work getting ready to leave, and i started to think about how i hadnt really felt the baby move alot that day. And i had a cup of hot chocolate and a bag of m&m's, which always gets him going. So i asked one of the sono techs to scan me quick to just check. No prob... so as she's scanning I asked her to check the amniotic fluid level cause i know towards the end the level gets lower and i wanted to make sure he still had enuf in there. She gets this weird look on her face. She says the level is fine, but the fluid itself doesnt look NORMAL She says it looks "thick, and not sonolucent". So now i start getting nervous. She calls the L&D room, and a PA comes over to take a look at her findings. The PA agrees that it doesnt look normal. I said well what could make it look like that?? She says possibly meconium or blood. But that its prob not blood cause I would be bleeding and would be in severe pain, cramping and stuff. So i'm like great, what if its meconium??? I dont want him in there with meconium floating around after all the bad stories you hear... So the sono tech beeps my OB's office, the P.A. on call calls back and the tech explains what is going on. The PA asks how the baby looks, she says baby looks fine, is moving, breathing, good heartrate etc.. so the PA says... "OK TELL HER TO JUST COME INTO OUR OFFICE FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING!!"

UMMMMMMMMMMM, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I freaked out. I was not leaving the hospital without knowing the baby was alright, so off to L&D i went. They hooked me up to the fetal monitor, and i had to have an "official" BioPhysical Profile. Baby scored good on BPP and was very reactive on the fetal monitor.. so I went home at midnight. My OB wanted me to go to their office first thing friday morn for more fetal monitoring and a sono by their office to be read by a perinatologist. So i of course couldnt sleep thurs nite, and went there first thing. Now i get there, and she hooks me up to the fetal monitor and baby is not reacting.. 40 min... no matter what she did, buzzed my stomach, shook it, baby was not reacting. GREAT! They scanned me in their office. The tech says "she kinda sees what they were talking about with the fluid but wouldnt be alarmed"... So since the baby wasnt reacting now its back to L&D for an extended non stress test. They said they would contact me when the Dr. read my sono. So off again i went to L&D and they hooked me up for an hour. And then the baby decided he was done making me suffer, and starting playing soccer inside me!! YAY!

So my OB came in and she said well we got the reading on the sono, it turns out the stuff in the fluid is VERNIX. That creamy substance that covers their skin. THANK GOD!!! So she said stop getting yourself scanned at work. I said i'm sorry but you work in a deli u get free bologna, u work in radiology, you get free sono's. She laughed and said well did u enjoy these past 18 hrs? i said no, your right.. fine... AND BACK TO WORK I WENT!!!!

A very emotional time for me... have i mentioned lately that I WANT MY BABY
OUT???

Oh and still 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced... i see myself in the hospital on xmas day



Thanks for listening girls!!

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Oh no!! I am glad that everything turned out ok for you and the baby!!

That would have scared the heck out of me too!!

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Wow, glad everything's ok!
Sending you lots of labor vibes b/c I know you want to get that baby out as much as I do!!!!
Feel Good!!!!!

{{{{{COME ON BABY!!!}}}}}}}}

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Thank god everything is ok I will send you labor vibes!

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Glad everything is ok. Come on baby, your parents are anxiously waiting for you!!!!

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Oh Geeze! SO scary. glad everything was ok......Good Luck!!

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

yikes... that's scary, glad you are both okay.

{{{{{labor vibes labor vibes}}}}

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I'm so glad everythings ok! Good luck and lots of {{{{{{{LV}}}}}}}}}

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Glad all is well!

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Whew - that seems like it was one scary ride! Glad everything worked out well!

And trust me, if I worked in a radiology office, I would have been doing the very same thing!

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

Wow...I'd be freaked out too.

The sono tech told me that my fluid looked too dark as well and had to go to L&D. When I got the the hospital, they told me that my fluid was normal....

Re: Another Baby Scare for me! (long)

glad everything is well!!!